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.