Transcript 00 RUSSIAN intro lesson

RUSSIAN
ab Initio
Course requirements
Language learning will be fun sometimes but
is first and foremost HARD WORK!!!
Vocabulary learning!
Grammar crunching!
Playing silly games!
Singing!
Three course topics
• Individual and society
• Leisure and work
• Urban and rural environment
Including sub-topics like:
daily routines, education, employment, food
and drink, health, shopping, transport,
weather, environmental concerns etc. etc.
What will you need?
• File/exercise book(s) divided into sections
for example
A) course notes
B) grammar
C) vocabulary
D) background studies (songs, “Russian of the
week”, public holidays etc.)
E) Topic adjectives
F) Prepositions sheet
G) Times and frequencies sheet
H) Conjunctions sheet
More things you will need
• Vocabulary booklet (small enough to take
everywhere) or Flashcards
• verb booklet (library: 501 Russian verbs)
• USB stick or something similar to transfer data
• Walkman/tape recorder/ipod etc where you can
record your own voice and let me have it on
either CD, digital or tape
• BUY: Dictionary
• BUY: A living Russian Grammar (see library)
Tracking progress and intervention
Sixth form = independent, teacher GUIDED
learning
- Homework in ON TIME! Language learning is
progressive
- Continuous vocabulary learning, ediscio.com
- Seek immediate clarification and feedback
- Your reponsibility to catch up missed lessons
- NO MORE: Miss, I didn’t know what we did last
week/I didn’t know what was set as homework…
Progress tracking
-
regular vocabulary test
regular written homework
Independent learning tasks
Big exams in January, June
parents’ evening in July
Intervention:
- Contacting tutors
- Contacting parents
Grades
• Level 1 – 7, 7 being the best
• Marks for
- Language (How good is your Russian in
terms of grammar/topic vocabulary
knowledge/orthography and calligraphy?)
- Content (Did you fulfil the speaking/ writing
task? Did you cover all points?)
- Communication (How cohesive/ logical/
understandable was your text/talk?)
The marking criteria vary from year to year
depending on the difficulty of the texts. I am
using the following percentages (roughly)
when marking class work:
L7 > 86%
L6 > 71%
L5 > 55%
L4 > 42%
L3 > 24%
L2 > 12%
L1 > 0%
Exams
Written assignment (01/13 or 02/13)
- 20%, 120 mins, externally marked
Individual Oral (03/11)
- 25%, 10 mins + 15 mins prep, marked by
teacher, moderated by external examiner
Paper 1 (05/13)
- 30%, 90 mins, externally marked
Paper 2 (05/13)
- 25%, 60 mins, externally marked
What is ediscio.com?
• A place where you will find all vocabulary
for you to learn online in flashcard format.
• Use it regularly! Listen to the soundfiles
Our webblog
• http://www.ivcmodernlanguagesblog.typepad.com/
• Posting of what we did during the lesson, so you
can access this from home when ill or away.
• Posting of interesting things concerning Russia(n)
in Cambridge
How can you reach me?
• [email protected]
• Personal pigeon hole in staff room, ask to
put into Mrs Svensén’s
• In school see timetable in Dunning room.