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RUSSIAN
ab Initio
Seven course topics
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The Individual
Education and Work
Town and Services
Food and Drink
Holidays and Leisure
Health and Emergencies
Environment
Exams
Interactive Oral (12/10 – 02/11)
- 15%, marked by teacher, one week’s
notice of topic
Individual Oral (03/11)
- 15%, marked by teacher, moderated by
external examiner
Paper 1 (05/11)
- 40%, externally marked
Paper 2 (05/11)
- 30%, externally marked
Grades
• Level 1 – 7, 7 being the best
• Marks out of 10 for
A) Language (How good is your Russian in
terms of grammar/topic vocabulary
knowledge/orthography and calligraphy?)
B) Content (Did you fulfil the speaking/
writing task? Did you cover all points?)
C) 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 > 75%
L5 > 64%
L4 > 53%
L3 > 42%
L2 > 31%
L1 > 20%
Course requirements
Language learning will be fun sometimes but
is first and foremost HARD WORK!!!
Vocabulary learning!
Grammar crunching!
Playing silly games!
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)
What is the R: drive?
• A place where you will find all work sheets,
music, pictures, slides etc that are used
during lessons
• My computer → R: drive (Worksheets) →
Languages → Russian → Y12 → date of
lesson
• You will be required to use this if you are
away to catch up with lessons.
Our webblog
• http://www.ivcmodernlanguagesblog.typepad.com/
• Posting of all the things that are on the R:drive
should you not be able to access the school
network
• 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 Mon 8:55 – 13:20, Wed 8:55 –
13:20.
This academic year
• 1st half term – Alphabet! / Learning to read
and write, Topic 1 “The individual”, Y12
settling in reports
• 2nd half term – Topic 1 “The individual”,
Winter term – Topic 2 “Education and
work”, year 12 January exams
• Summer term – Topic 3 “Town and
Services” and Topic 4 “Food and Drink”,
parents’ evening in June
• Y12 reports (UCAS references)
Next academic year
• 1st half term – Topic 5 “Holidays and
Leisure”
• 2nd half term – Topic 6 “Health and
Emergencies” and Topic 7 “Environment”,
also Y13 mock exams in December,
beginning of interactive orals
• 3rd half term – exam preparation only,
especially concentrating on oral and
interactive orals
• 4th half term – Individual oral and
preparation for written exams