Russian Independent Mid 3 Online (Tues., 6-7:30pm)

Instructor: Lindsay Smith

Objective: In this class, students will build on skills developed during the Independent Mid 2. We will practice speaking in longer “bursts,” elaborating on statements, and asking follow-up questions: having real conversations. Students will round out Unit 1 and continue the theme of biography, building on last semester when we learned how to narrate important life events. We will review and expand knowledge of instrumental case (nouns, adjectives, personal pronouns, ordinal numbers), which we’ll use to describe who we were, who we want to become, and what we’re interested in, as well as phrases to say dating/breaking up with/divorcing someone. We’ll read the biographies and discuss the lives of a star tennis player, the two first men in space, and a successful author. We’ll also learn the important distinction the reflexive possessive pronoun “свой” makes: it’s the difference between Nastya kissing her (own) boyfriend and kissing her (Lena’s) boyfriend. We’ll finish with a function lesson on phone calls which will cover making social invitations and accepting/declining them, plus more and slang-ier ways to talk to friends.