Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Сегодня в лингафонном кабинете ELEMENTARY RUSSIAN (Урок 6, неделя 2 Unit 6 Week 2 Elementary Russian)



Сегодня среда! 

Привет! Как дела? У меня всё хорошо! Или нет...


1. Spend TEN MINUTES practicing our vocab quiz on Memrise. Then take the quiz (just a reminder, this is a closed book quiz)
 

2. Почитаем!  read this article (did you know that you can subscribe to NYTimes through Stetson and ERAU libraries?) for some cultural insights about the question, How are you?...  In my experience, it's mostly true, though younger Russians understand that you're not really asking how they're doing when you ask... How do you do?








3. А теперь... Review quickly counting by tens. Listen to this recording and read along with the numerals from below. Listen a couple times...



NB a couple things: Thousand in Russian is тысяча. That word's etymology traces back to *tuHsont-, a proto-Indo European root that also gives us thousand.  So, like сто hundred (like cent), there's an historical connection between тысяча and thousand. (Without geeking out TOO much, the really old word in Russian for thousand was тьма, which now means, like, "darkness" or "gloom"... which is what tuhsont meant, too... You get a lot of stuff, and it looks like a cloud, like gloom! Russian stopped using тьма to mean a thousand a thousand years ago... COOL!) 

In Russian (as in English) the word is a noun. Think about, for instance, the difference between: "Ten cats sat in the room" and "A thousand cats sat in the room." Weird, isn't it? That's because thousand is a noun in English. 

The word for thousand, тысяча, is feminine, so you get однА тысячА; in 2, 3, and 4 thousand, the word тысяча is in the genitive singular form, две (feminine form of 2) тысячИ, три тысячИ, четыре тысячИ.

Five thousand and higher, the word тысяча is in the genitive plural form, тысяч. (You don't yet know that form! Все ХОРОШО!)


4. PRINT OUT OR DOWNLOAD THIS LAB WORKSHEET or grab it from the lab table. Do упражнение А, writing down the prices of the items (it's on the second page of the lab worksheet). The challenge here is to figure out how many thousands and hundreds each item costs. You'll hear the word тысяча in various forms; the forms aren't as important as the numbers in front. 

Then, come back to the first page of the worksheet! Work some more on the use and formation of the Genitive case. Do oral drills 7,8,9. Do them in writing. Pen or pencil or just type in the word document. Have them checked by our tutors. 

Anyone interested in poetry, history, politics... try giving this poem (from like 1917) a shot...

Скифы
Мильоны — вас. Нас — тьмы, и тьмы, и тьмы.
Попробуйте, сразитесь с нами!
Да, скифы — мы! Да, азиаты — мы,
С раскосыми и жадными очами!
Александр Блок

Mmmmmm... Блины! East Slavs eat a lot of pancakes. Everyone should eat more pancakes. 


Monday, February 26, 2024

Сегодня в лингафонном кабинете... Русский язык (второй год) (Урок 6 Неделя 2)






1) Сначала поработайте с этим списком слов QUIZLET. review the words and take the VOCAB QUIZ (15 мин)

2) Now, grab from the table or download and then print  THIS WORKSHEET (it does not work if you open it in google doc, in order to see all the images properly you need to download it on your laptop). 

3) прослушайте разговор 2 и ответьте на все вопросы! You'll find the questions on the хендаут and below:

Трудности? ... ну, спрашивайте! Ask a tutor for help understanding, if you need it (15 мин)

3) Немного грамматики... =Now, a little grammar...
First, watch this mini-lesson on how to use indefinites in Russian (-то, -либо, -нибудь) This presentation has a practical part. Pause at those moments to check your understanding.



4) Now, Double negation ни- не ... or ни- нет. Watch this fabulous explanation first:
Then read this concise explanation in English with excellent examples:

 Now, do the handout assignments on negative constructions:  I have not heard nothing about it...

На сегодня всё! Молодцы!

Monday, February 19, 2024

Сегодня в лингафонном кабинете ELEMENTARY RUSSIAN (Урок 6, неделя 1 Unit 6 Week 1 Elementary Russian)

Доброе утро! Сегодня среда.





Итак...

First, here is the Memrise quiz that will prepare you for the quiz NEXT WEEK (=на следующей неделе!). Spend 10 minutes reviewing these new phrases that we'll go over as we proceed through the dialogs.

Print out your handout HERE or grab it from the lab table.


Next, listen to the three разговоры (1 3) (кликните по ссылке! Click on the links!). Don't listen more than three times! Я вам помогу! I can help you... just ask! Попросите!


On the back of one of your handout, jot down the answers, in English, to the following questions:


Before completing handout assignments, take a second and listen to me read the conjugational pattern of a new verb, хотеть, to want. Notice that it's irregular: the singular present tense has -e- as its vowel (like работать); the plural persons (мы, вы, они) have -и- and -ят (like говорить). It's not irregular, хотеть is a hybrid, half first, half second!

Listen to the recording at least twice, and read along:


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Now, come join us at the tables... Пожалуйста, к столам! Поработаем вместе! Do all the assignments in your handout. Read dialogue 5 and answer the questions.

Sunday, February 18, 2024

СЕГОДНЯ В ЛИНГАФОННОМ КАБИНЕТЕ ВТОРОЙ КУРС, УРОК 6, НЕДЕЛЯ 1


Привет! Вы узнали этих писателей и поэтов? 
Давайте поработаем!
0. First things first: memorize the new Quizlet vocabulary HERE. We will have the vocab quiz next Wednesday.

Print out the handout HERE or grab it from the lab table.

1. Сначала почитаем в парах. Read the dialogue ты любишь стихи in your handout.

Ответьте на вопросы к диалогу письменно в ваших хэндаутах...=answer the questions in writing in your handouts

2. Examine the main rules of "который" constructions! Watch this video and examine the rules below:


Do ex. 6-20 on your handout (choose between что, кто, какой, который)
Pay attention to this rule:

3. "НУЖНО/НУЖНА/НУЖНЫ/НУЖЕН" + Dative Subject: выполните упражнение на третьей странице вашего хэндаута (4 предложения) =do the assignment on page 3 of your handout



На сегодня все! Спасибо за хорошую работу!



Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Сегодня в лингафонном кабинете ELEMENTARY RUSSIAN (Урок 5, неделя 3 Unit 5 Week 3 Elementary Russian)

Ну, погоди means "Just you wait!"

Привет!

Возьмите хендаут! На if you want a virtual one! (In Russian, you can say На! and it'll be understood as "Here, take this!" It's not super formal, but it's not rude...) 


Let's start with the grammar quiz! Grab it in the lab and have it checked by us before you leave the class (аудиторию)


А ТЕПЕРЬ (=and now...)

Next 5 minutes. «Ну погоди!»

Не хотите посмотреть мультфильм? Do you want to watch a cartoon? Русские (скорее советские граждане) очень любят серию «Ну погоди!». Watch an episode of the much-loved animated series «Ну погоди!» ("Just You Wait!"). Every Russian-speaker I know can recite these series from memory... Watch one episode! It's just ten minutes!




Закончили?? МОЛОДЕЦ! Ну погоди makes Tom and Jerry look like Teletubbies, right? Wipe the blood off your computer screen. 

There was a time before trigger warnings... было да сплыло... 

Last 30 minutes.
А теперь... Поработаем! Handout

On your handout, you'll find some exercises for за столом и за компьютером, for table work with tutors and for work at the computer. Do whichever you wish first! Как хотите! But do them both and include the completed handout in your Unit 5 portfolio.

1) The work at the tables is on the tricky Russian translation of "CLASS"... I'm going to class! I'm taking a class! Class! Класс! (That word, класс, means (among other things)... "That's cool!")
2) Listen to 5-41 (the first exercise below) and 5-42 (the second). Just jot down the answers on the handout. You'll find the exercise additionally printed there, on your handout. 


Sunday, February 4, 2024

RUS 202 ВТОРОЙ КУРС Unit 5 LAB 3



Здравствуйте, дорогие студенты!

1. Сначала.... КВИЗ по грамматике ! 

2. Теперь... посмотрите программу "Лучше всех" про повара Полину (3 года). Посмотрите 8 минут, она готовит салат Оливье... ням-ням... (10 мин)


Вам понравился ролик? Правда, очень мило? А теперь давайте поработаем!

3. Возьмите наш хэндаут. Сделайте устные упражнения 11 и 12 (15 мин)

4. А теперь давайте повторим reflexive verbs=REVIEW THE FOLLOWING VERBS (PAY ATTENTION TO STRESS!!!) (5 min)

USE  the nonreflexive form (WITHOUT –СЯ) when an animate being is the grammatical subject (Миша начал смотреть кино) Use the reflexive form (with –ся) when something inanimate is the subject (Библиотека закрывается в 7 часов)



5. Теперь устное упражнение 16 (10 мин)

ВСЁ! УРА!