Russian Intermediate (full syllabus)

Comprising three 10-week modules, this intermediate to advanced Russian course will improve your reading, speaking, writing and listening skills. You’ll learn new vocabulary for a wide array of scenarios useful for conversation.

Topics include talking about your daily routine and activities, planning celebrations and discussing the future. You’ll use grammar structures, such as adverbs and imperatives, reflexive verbs, the passive voice and open questions.

Newspapers, literature and videos will help you learn and also provide a focus for discussing wider Russian cultural and political affairs.

Who is it for?

Join us here if you can communicate at CEFR A2 level (approximately 120 hours of prior learning). You may have completed our lower intermediate syllabus or have a good or recent GCSE. More information can be found in the eligibility section.

Timetable

The course includes 60 hours of learning and is taught across three terms, starting in October and finishing in July.

October – December (Part 1)

One evening per week (two-hour lessons) for ten consecutive weeks.

Christmas Break

January – March (Part 2)

One evening per week (two-hour lessons) for ten consecutive weeks.

Easter break

April/May – July (Part 3)

One evening per week (two-hour lessons) for ten consecutive weeks.

Benefits

• Benefit from the lowest rate by signing up to the full syllabus
• More contact time with the tutor
• Video explainers to improve pronunciation
• Interactive role-play, games and discussions help solidify your learning

By the end of this course you will be able to

• talk about your free time
• discuss your day
• talk about weather and the seasons in depth
• make plans for the future
• talk about more of your likes and dislikes
• plan celebrations and talk about trips
• explain various illnesses
• use vocabulary relating to fashion
• talk about accommodation in depth
• discuss your work and leisure preferences
• understand and talk about the media, using examples
• make more complicated travel plans.

Grammatical structures

• different forms of adjectives
• comparative and superlatives
• adverbs
• imperatives
• verbs of motion
• verb aspect – describing people and objects
• reflexive verbs
• the passive voice
• the passive voice of reflective verbs
• cardinal numbers
• possible and impossible conditions
• indirect speech
• ordinal numbers
• demonstrative pronouns
• common expressions using modal verbs
• open questions.

You will be awarded an official City St George’s, University of London certificate on completion of the course if you attend over 70 per cent of the classes. The course is not formally accredited.

Assessment

Any assessment will be informal to help you evaluate your own progress.

Teaching

This course is designed to develop your skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing the language.

Interactive games and roleplays build your vocabulary in both colloquial and more formal versions of the language. Working in pairs and small groups you’ll form sentences and write short stories where everyone contributes.

Digital learning aids feature prominently, and include newspapers, audio and video clips.

If you’ve already studied Russian for around 120 hours and can follow discussions on topics of current interests and understand Russian newspapers, this course is for you.

It is the right level if you:

• have completed our lower intermediate syllabus, or an equivalent course with a different provider
• can communicate at CEFR A2 level, according to the Common European Framework of languages
• have a good or recent GCSE.

You should already know:

• how to talk about daily routines
• how to discuss plans for going out
• how to read some Russian literature
• ordinal numbers
• comparative adjectives and adverbs.

English requirements

You will need a good level of spoken and written English to enrol on this course.