Lesson 0
Cyrillic alphabet
Week 1
Vocabulary: meeting new people, professions
Grammar: personal pronouns, gender of nouns
What students can say in Russian: Hello! My name is Peter. What's your name? How are you doing? I'm okay. I'm a businessman, and who are you
Week 2
Vocabulary: city
Grammar: gender of nouns, prepositional case
What students can say in Russian: This is a school. Where's the pharmacy? It's there, on the left. Where are you? I'm in Italy, in Rome.
Week 3
Vocabulary: asking for names, basic verbs, nationalities
Grammar: personal pronouns in genitive case, verb conjugation
What students can say in Russian: It's Madonna. What does she do? She works as an artist. She works in America. She's american and speaks English.
Week 4
Vocabulary: the class, common objects, more verbs
Grammar: “I have”
What students can say in Russian: I don't have a pen. Is there a pen in the class?
Week 5
Vocabulary: family
Grammar: possessive pronouns
What students can say in Russian: Here's a photo? Who do you think these people are? It's my brother, it's his daughter.
Week 6
Vocabulary: hobbies, verbs of relation, verbs (hobbies)
Grammar: accusative case
What students can say in Russian: I love chess and hate opera. I play football and dance salsa.
Week 7
Vocabulary: numbers
Grammar: active practice of what was learned
What students can say in Russian: What's your address? It's Lenina street, 30, flat 12. Can you give me your phone number?
Week 8
Vocabulary: house, apartment, rooms, furniture
Grammar: prepositional case - revision
What students can say in Russian: This is my house. I have a fridge on the balcony and a swimming pool in the garage
Week 9
Vocabulary: position verbs
Grammar: position verbs, as well, ON and IN
What students can say in Russian: The painting hangs on the wall, the friends are sitting on the carpet, the phone lays on the table.
Week 10
Vocabulary: office, busy verbs, adverbs
Grammar: plural of nouns
What students can say in Russian: In our office we discuss interesting projects and answer boring emails.
Week 11
Vocabulary: adjectives
Grammar: gender of the adjectives
What students can say in Russian: What's your favorite film? My favorite film is "Brother". It's a film that was very popular in Russia in the 90s.
Week 12
Vocabulary: colors, nationalities
Grammar: adverbs vs adjectives
What students can say in Russian: Realist is a person who buys a grey car. Saint-Petersburg is a cultural capital. There are interesting museums and long channels.
Week 13
Vocabulary: hotel
Grammar: nothing new
What students can say in Russian: Can I book a double room? I have problem, my minibar is empty. Can you help?