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Hello, Colleagues!
Kolesova D.V., Shchukina K.A. "Hello, Colleagues!" A Study Guide of Russian for Foreign Students. — SPb.: Zlatoust, 2021.
The study guide is intended for the work with foreign students and postgraduate students of humanitarian specialties with B2 and C1 levels, who want to participate in the Russian-language communication in the educational and scientific area. The system of tasks is based on the models of functional-semantic types of speech (description, narration, explanation, reasoning, instruction); the materials for work are authentic popular-science and scientific texts, as well as popular-science video lectures.
Russian Language: First Steps. 1
Belikova, L.G., Schutova, T.A., Yerofejeva, I.N. Russian Language: First Steps: A Manual of Russian Language: In 3 parts. Part 1. – St. Petersburg: Zlatoust, 2017. – 262 p.
The first part of the study guide includes 11 lessons (1 – 11; the last one is a revision lesson). The retention of lexico-grammatical material is rated approximately for 160-200 contact hours. The aim of the first part of the study guide is to develop in trainees the basic language and speech skills, related to solving elementary communicative problems.
The study guide includes an introductory phonetic course, the basic knowledge about the parts of speech and sentence parts, as well as two-member sentence structure. Trainees will study the singular nouns and personal pronouns declension system, imperfective verb conjugation, and verbs of movement without prefixes. They will learn how to express temporal, cause-and-effect, target, comparative, and spatial relations by the means corresponding to this teaching stage. At the end of the study guide there are testing works to each lesson. The study guide has an audio application.
Russian Language: First Steps. 2
Belikova, L.G., Schutova, T.A., Yerofejeva, I.N. Russian Language: First Steps: A Manual of Russian Language: In 3 parts. Part 2. – 5th ed. – St. Petersburg: Zlatoust, 2019. – 296 p.
The study guide is intended for the foreigners beginning to study Russian language but already gained knowledge of the Russian two-member sentence structure and prepositional-nominal system of the Russian language, as well as having a vocabulary of 600-700 words. The second part of the study guide includes 9 lessons (12 – 20; the last one is a revision lesson). The retention of lexico-grammatical material is rated approximately for 200-240 contact hours.
The aim of the second part is to develop in trainees the basic language and speech skills, related to solving elementary communicative problems, mainly in the social and domestic sphere of communication. Information about the tense-aspect system of the Russian verb, declension of adjectives, possessive and demonstrative pronouns, and singular ordinal numerals are presented in the book. Trainees will get knowledge of the prepositional-nominal system, learn how to talk on the topics related to the description of simple events (narration), and adequately (in accordance with etiquette rules) conduct a dialogue in the situation of social interaction. At the end of the study guide there are testing works to each lesson. The study guide has an audio application. Keys to exercises are available on the publisher’s website. It is intended for the foreigners beginning to study Russian on the program of the First Certificate Level of foreign citizens' communicative competence.
Russian Language: First Steps. 3
Belikova, L.G., Schutova, T.A., Yerofejeva, I.N. Russian Language: First Steps: A Manual of Russian Language: In 3 parts. Part 3. – 5th ed. – St. Petersburg: Zlatoust, 2019. – 412 p.
The study guide is the last part of the training complex. The third part contains 10 lessons (21 – 30; the last one is a revision lesson). The retention of lexico-grammatical material is rated approximately for 200-240 contact hours. The study guide contains the information about the declension system of plural nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and ordinal numerals; application rules of adverbial participles and participles, and verbs of movement; ways of expressing temporal, cause-effect, conditional, target, and concessive relations. At the end of the study guide there are testing works to each lesson and the tables that will help trainees to align the knowledge on the Russian grammar at this stage. There is also an audio application. Keys to exercises are available on the publisher’s website. It is intended for the foreigners studying Russian on the program of the First Certificate Level and higher (B1+), already gained the knowledge on the prepositional-nominal system of nominative parts of speech and aspectual-temporal system.
I Read Russian
Yudina, G.S. I Read Russian. B1.1. – St. Petersburg: The Publishing House of St Petersburg University, 2020.
In the study guide there are assignments for practicing different types of reading, actual texts about various aspects of life in modern-day Russia. Each text has a pre-text, post-text, and home assignments, as well as illustrations, glossary (with translation into English and Chinese), and keys. The texts correspond to conversational topics, recommended by the working program for studying them as a part of the first module of the B1 level.
The study guide is intended for the foreigners having a basic level of Russian. It can be used during online lessons, classroom, and project studies by trainees of additional educational programs in the field of Russian as a foreign language.
Russian Language Tests: B1
Russian Language Tests: B1. Public Examination Materials from SPbU. — SPb.: Zlatoust. 2020. — 141 p. (I.V. Levental, A.S. Konanov, D.V. Ptyushkin, E.N. Gordeev, I.N. Erofeeva, I.Y. Ilyicheva, L.V. Leifland-Berntsson, N.A. Dubinina)
The “TORFL – 100%” series includes test versions for all levels. The control materials were developed by the testologists of the Language Testing Center of St Petersburg University and were previously used in examination sessions. This issue is intended for those who study Russian and plan to take the test in Russian as a foreign language (TORFL) at the First Certification Level (TORFL-I/B1), as well as for the teachers preparing for these examinations.
Russian Language Tests: A2
Russian Language Tests: A2. Public Examination Materials from SPbU. — SPb.: Zlatoust. 2020. — 133 p. (D.V. Ptyushkin, A.V. Nikiforova, E.V. Kosareva, I.Y. Ilyicheva, L.V. Leifland-Berntsson, N.A. Dubinina)
The "TORFL – 100%" series includes test versions for all levels. The control materials were developed by the testologists of the Language Testing Centre of St Petersburg University and were previously used in examination sessions. This issue is intended for those who study Russian and plan to take the test in Russian as a foreign language (TORFL) at the Basic Level (TBL/A2), as well as for the teachers preparing for these examinations.
Russian Language Tests: B2
Russian Language Tests: B2. Public Examination Materials from SPbU. — SPb.: Zlatoust. 2020. — 156 p. (TORFL — 100%) (Vinogradov, D.V., Klobukova, L.P.; Gonchar, I.A., Erofeeva, I.N., Kolesova, D.V., Rogova, K.A., Horokhordina, O.V., Popova, T.I.)
Version 1: Vinogradov, D.V., Klobukova, L.P.;
Version 2: Gonchar, I.A., Erofeeva, I.N., Kolesova, D.V., Rogova, K.A., Horokhordina, O.V., Popova, T.I.
The "TORFL – 100%" series includes test versions for all levels. The control materials were developed by the testologists of the Language Testing Centre of St Petersburg University and were previously used in examination sessions. This issue is intended for those who study Russian and plan to take the test in Russian as a foreign language (TORFL) at the Level TORFL-II/В2, as well as for the teachers preparing for these examinations.
Business Russian for Every Day
Business Russian for Every Day: Study Guide / resp. ed. Volkova, L.B., Popova, T.I. — SPb.: The Publishing House of St Petersburg University, 2018 . — 214 p. (E.V. Kosareva, E.S. Zorina, T.S. Sadova, L.B. Volkova, S.A. Belov, S.A. Kuznetsov)
The study guide contains the learning materials, learning activities, samples of original documents and business letters, necessary for the successful mastering of the Russian business style features in various situations of business communication by foreign citizens. The study guide consists of two parts: the first one is aimed at teaching Russian business language in the relevant business and social spheres (contacting the MPSC, registering a marriage, obtaining banking services, etc.), while the second one is devoted to business writing and contains theoretical excursus, along with tasks and examples.
The study guide is aimed at the foreign citizens seeking to work in Russia, the people who know Russian at the TORFL-1 level and above, who want to improve their linguistic and communicative competence in the field of business communication, the teachers of the Russian language in the CIS countries, as well as everyone interested in mastering the norms of the business style of the modern Russian literary language.
«USPEKH+»
The Interactive Course for Practical Studies. A1
The electronic textbook on Russian as a foreign language is intended for the foreigners that are beginning to study Russian, but it might also be useful for those who want to consolidate their knowledge in practice. The textbook includes 78 lessons (equivalent to 300 classroom hours) and provides preparation in accordance with the "Requirements for Russian as a Foreign Language. Elementary Level".
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