

Vocabulary glossaries are provided at the foot of each page, where necessary, and there is a comprehensive alphabetical Russian-English and English-Russian vocabulary list at the end of the course.
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Roughly equal weighting is given to the four skills (speaking, reading, listening and writing), which are developed through a series of lexical and interactive activities, including memory games, crosswords, gap-filling tasks and role plays.

Wherever possible, the students are asked to deduce unfamiliar syntactic and morphological principles for themselves from regular paradigms, before being required to apply the new rules or to cope with irregularities.Įach chapter begins with a summary of the competences which the students will acquire and with a list of the main points of grammar which are to be introduced.

Particular emphasis is placed on the use of authentic up-to-date materials, such as advertisements, newspaper clippings, timetables, tickets, official forms and recent photographs, and on the creation of meaningful and relevant contexts for language learning. The textbook consists of an introductory chapter and twenty further chapters based on themes which exemplify and consolidate a series of new linguistic concepts. It is appropriate for a wide range of learners, from school pupils with a background in foreign languages to evening-class students and undergraduates and postgraduates. S azov has been used extensively with our own degree-level students, and has thus benefited from considerable testing in practical classroom situations. The authors, Tom Dickins and Irina Moore, decided to write S azov (Russian from Scratch) because of the lack of suitable communicative ab initio Russian language courses for more mature learners. S AZOV (Russian from Scratch) Introduction and acknowledgements (iii) Table of contents (iv-ix) Summary of the principal grammar points (x-xii) Introductory Chapter (Pages 1-16) Chapter One - Introductions (Pages 17-32) Chapter Two - An object lesson (Pages 33-50) Chapter Three - Work / Nationality (Pages 51-64) Chapter Four - At the airport (Pages 65-80) Chapter Five - Shopping for food (Pages 81-98) Chapter Six - I cant hear you very well! (Pages 99-116) Chapter Seven - At the hotel (Pages 117-134) Chapter Eight - Russian cuisine (Pages 135-150) Chapter Nine - Now and then (Pages 151-168) Chapter Ten - Hobbies and interests (Pages 169-192) Chapter Eleven - Health (Pages 193-210) Chapter Twelve - Education (Pages 211-230) Chapter Thirteen - My family and (other) animals (Pages 231-248) Chapter Fourteen - The weather (Pages 249-270) Chapter Fifteen - A horrible sight (or aspect?) (Pages 271-292) Chapter Sixteen - In the town (Pages 293-314) Chapter Seventeen - Bon voyage! (Pages 315-342) Chapter Eighteen - At home (Pages 343-362) Chapter Nineteen - Personal information (Pages 363-382) Chapter Twenty - A further step in reading and writing (Pages 383-410) Listening passages (Pages 411-436) Vocabulary (Pages 437-536) Edited and produced by ALEKSANDR POLYAKOV
