В гостях
Assignments for Golosa: A Basic Course in Russian, Book 2 (Fourth Edition). Audio files are found at http://www.prenhall.com/golosa or you can click on the links below.
Wednesday & Thursday, Apr. 22-23 – Russian film
Monday, Apr. 27
10.1 - TXBK 380-384; no SAM tonight.
You see the list of American holidays on p. 380. But what holidays do Russians celebrate? Read that list and a little about each one on pp. 380-381. There are three culture boxes with information you need to know.
Prepare ex. 10-2 and 10-3. Then listen to the three “Разговоры для слушания”. Write your answers to the questions on pp. 383-384.
Tuesday, Apr. 28
10.2 - TXBK 385-390; SAM 219 (Числительные).
Open your Student Activities Manual to p. 219, listen to the recording (below), and fill in the time of day for each of the activities listed. (This unit you will learn a more advanced way to tell time ... but first do this exercise using the simpler way of telling time.)
Then turn to the main part of tonight’s assignment: Dialogs. There are six of them to read and translate. Don’t miss the culture box on p. 386; it’ll give you indispensable information for when you go visiting someone in Russia. Prepare ex. 10-4 and 10-5. You’ll need to know how to handle the situations listed in ex. 10-6 for the unit test.
Here are unpaused recordings of the dialogs to listen to as you read.
Wednesday, Apr. 29
10.3 - TXBK 392-395; Oral drills 1-3 (SAM 220); Written exercises 1-5 (SAM 228-231).
Section 1: Wishing someone a happy holiday - С праздником! The full phrase is this:
Я поздравляю вас с + (instrumental case of name of holiday).
I greet you with + (name of holiday).
After preparing ex. 10-9 in the TXBK, prepare oral drill 1 (below) and write exercise 1 on p. 228 of the SAM.
Section 2: Talking about celebrating holidays. Learn the three verbs you use to “celebrate” a holiday: Use встречать with Новый год; use отмечать or празновать with other holidays
After preparing ex. 10-10 in TXBK, write exercise 2 (SAM, p. 229).
Section 3: Making toasts (not “toast”). Learn how to say “To friendship!” or “To peace on earth!” or any other toast you with to offer.
За + acc. case (кого/что)
За Россию! Here’s to Russia!
За Америку! To America!
За нас! Here’s to us!
За тебя! To you!
Prepare ex. 10-11 and do oral drill 2 (linked), and write exercises 3 and 4 (SAM, p. 230).
Section 4: Making invitations. You’ll want to invite people to go somewhere, do something. Read the expressions on p. 294, prepare ex. 10-12 in TXBK, prepare oral drill 3 (linked) and write exercise 5 (SAM, p. 231).
Thursday, Apr. 30
Important two-day assignment!
10.4 - Day 1 - TXBK 395-398; Oral drills 4-7 (SAM, p. 221), all TXBK exercises on p. 398.
Section 5: Telling time.
Learn the common way of telling time. In this system, there are two forms: (1) for the first half hour, and (2) for the second half hour. Examples:
Сейчас десять минут шестого. It’s ten past five (5:10).
Сейчас без десяти минут шесть. It’s ten to six. (5:50).
Он пришёл в десять минут шестого. He arrived at ten past five (5:10).
Он ушёл без десяти минут шесть. He left at ten to six (5:50).
There’s a lot to telling time correctly. We’ll spend two days on Section 6 (telling time). Practice, practice, practice, until you can give any time of day without hesitation.
Study pages 395-397. Read the examples out loud. Prepare the exercises on p. 398 in your TXBK. Listen to and prepare the following four oral exercises.
Monday, May 4
10.5 - Day 2 - TXBK 395-398; Oral drills 4-7 (SAM, p. 221), all TXBK exercises on p. 398.
We’ll spend a second day practicing telling time. Read the TXBK examples again. Whatever exercises we didn’t do yesterday in your TXBK or SAM we’ll do today.
Also download this exercise sheet, fill it out, and bring it to class.
Tuesday, May 5
10.6 - TXBK 399-400; Oral drills 8-14 (SAM 222-225) and write exercises 6-9 (SAM 232-234).
Section 6: A review of Location and Direction expressions.
This is an excellent assignment. Review the verbs, prepositions, and cases used in these expressions.
Do oral drills 8-14:
And write exercises 6-9 in your Student Activities Manual.
Wednesday, May 6
10.7 - TXBK 401-402; Oral drills 15-20 (SAM 225-227) and written exercises 10-13 (SAM 234-236).
Section 7: Learn how to make hypotheses using «Если бы...» clauses.
Section 8: Each other (друг друга) in all its declined forms.
Prepare these oral drills:
Write exercises 10-13 in your Student Activities Manual, pp. 234-236.
Thursday, May 7
CHANGE TO SCHEDULE. For 2009, begin Review for Final Exam today.
Do not do the following in 2009:
10.8 - TXBK 403-407.
Section 9: Verbal adjectives and Verbal adverbs. Read about the four kinds of verbal adjectives (also known as “participles”) and two kinds of verbal adverbs (also known as “gerunds”). These deverbals appear regularly in written Russian.
