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2024/2025

Russian for Beginners Z5

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Code Completion Credits Range Language
04XRZ5 Z 2 0+4 Czech
Relations:
The course 04XRZZK can be graded only after the course 04XRZ5 has been successfully completed.
Course guarantor:
Zhanna Isaeva
Lecturer:
Tutor:
Zhanna Isaeva
Supervisor:
Department of Humanities and Languages
Synopsis:

The course expects the student to have completed RZ4. It concentrates predominantly on reading skills (working with professional texts, i.e. understanding, extracting and summarizing information from a specialized text) and speaking, and to a certain extent, writing about the professional information obtained by reading the texts. Communication skills are trained on everyday topics. Studying grammar is based on professional and technical texts and only includes items typically used in professional communication (verbal adjectives, participles, passive voice). Students develop their technical and economic vocabulary, and are also trained in some professional skills (writing a CV, polite request, etc.)

Requirements:

a pass in course RZ4

Syllabus of lectures:

textbook: Raduga po-novomu 5

Lessons 1 - 5

textbook: Odborná ruština pro matematiky, fyziky a jaderné inženýry

Texts 2, 3, 14, 15, 16, possibly 6, 7, 8, 18, 19, 20

Syllabus of tutorials:

The course is run as a series of seminars following the topics and scope of the syllabus mentioned above.

Study Objective:

Knowledge:

Knowledge of morphology, syntax, and lexis at the level appropriate to the course, namely: grammar typical of professional style of science (passives, perfectivity, verbal adjectives, gerunds), vocabulary range from economics, technology, job hunting, revision of idioms and useful phrases

Skills:

their application in everyday communication and in more professional contexts, namely:

read professional texts from science and technology, interpret them, translate and summarize, extract important information, express opinion orally and in writing, write a formal letter and CV

To qualify for admission to examination

Study materials:

Key references:

[1] S. Jelínek, J. Folprechtová, R. Hříbková, H. Žofková, Raduga po novomu 5 Fraus, Plzeň 2011 (coursebook)

[2] I. Dvořáková, E. Lhotová, E. Markvartová, Odborná ruština pro matematiky, fyziky a jaderné inženýry

Ediční středisko ČVUT 1990 (textbook)

Recommended references:

[3] M. Čechová, Doplňující texty a materiály pro výuku ruštiny, 2015 - teaching materials prepared at the Department of Languages, FNSPE, CTU

[4] M. Čechová, Homepage, 2015 http://kmlinux.fjfi.cvut.cz/~cechomil/

Teaching aids:

language classroom, audiovisuals, PC lab

Note:
Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:
Time-table is not available yet
Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:
Time-table is not available yet
The course is a part of the following study plans:
Data valid to 2024-10-11
For updated information see http://bilakniha.cvut.cz/en/predmet7246706.html