The course has as its aim the attainment of level B2 of the European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), both in active (speaking and writing) and passive (listening and reading) skills. The course helps to consolidate and develop the acquired grammatical and lexical skills.
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Moreover, some texts will be provided during the lessons.
Learning Objectives
The course has as its aim the attainment of level B2 of the European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), both in active (speaking and writing) and passive (listening and reading) skills.
Prerequisites
Language skills in Russian, which corresponds to B1 CEFR level.
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons and homework exercises.
Further information
Please note that the “Scuola” requires compulsory attendance for two-thirds of the lessons (calculated in terms of scheduled lesson attendance, with the option of attending makeup and remedial lessons).
Type of Assessment
The exam consists in an interview, after passing the written test, aimed at testing the knowledge acquired by the students on the content of the course. The written test is divided into several classroom and homework assignments during the academic year.
Course program
I. Synonymy of syntactic means in Russian: exercises on syntactic transformations:
1. Attributive functions: agreed and unagreed attributes; participial structures and relative subordinate clauses.
2. Explanatory functions: direct/indirect objects, prepositional phrases and subjective, objective, declarative, modal clauses; direct and indirect speech.
3. Phrases (time) and temporal subordinate clauses.
4. Phrases (cause) and causal subordinate clauses.
5. Consecutive subordinate clauses.
6. Phrases (purpose) and final subordinate clauses.
7. Phrases (comparison) and comparative subordinate clauses.
8. Hypothetical sentences (conditional clauses).
9. Phrases (concession) and concessive subordinate clauses.