Language and Section: Russian Intermediate 11
Date: February 20 and 25, March 11 2014
Class theme/topics discussed:
Case system review
Goal of the class:
Revise Home/furniture vocabulary and review cases, Grammar revision – cases, verbs, short adjectives – important to describe a person
Structure of the class (unless you attach your lesson plan below):
PART 1
Activity 1 Review cases
Go through examples in Handout 1 (Case review), make sure the students understand what they sentences mean, explain why the case is used, do transformations, e.g. ask to give the nominative case of the words – 35 minutes
Vocabulary is from Chapter 5 of V puti – Russian grammar in context, photocopies are provided (pp. 112-135)
Activity 2 Translate and revise thematic vocabulary
Translate sentences in Handout 2 – 25 minutes
PART 2
Activity 1 Discuss OLC on Ukraine – 15 minutes
Activity 2 Discuss funny excerpts from Russian for foreigners- textbooks and phrase books “Why foreigners don’t understand Russians” http://www.adme.ru/vdohnovenie-919705/pochemu-inostrancy-ne-ponimayut-russkih-639205/?fb_action_ids=10203143073563535&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582 and listen to funny listening comprehension tasks “Princeton Russian” http://vk.com/timerain?w=wall175830784_1382 – 15 minutes
Activity 4 Describe your apartment/room using as many words from Handouts 1 and 2 as possible – 10 minutes
PART 3
Activity 1 – Warm-up – Handout 3 –10 minutes
Rescramble vocabulary from Handout 1 into three categories – verbs, nouns, and adjectives
Activity 2 – Vocabulary + grammar revision (cases, verbs, short adjectives) – Handout 4 – 25 minutes
Do exercises from Handout 4, discuss more in detail when the information is pertinent to the student and his/her family situation
Activity 3 – Compose stories 15 minutes –Handout 3 and 5
Using phrases from Handout 5, start telling a story about a person: choose 1 phrase from Handout 5 and then choose grammatically suitable category from verbs/nouns/adjectives and use them accordingly, picking words at random. This is a lot of fun because it may well turned out that She looked like… (Handout 5) a big sofa (Handout 3).
What technology, media or props did you use? (satellite tv, internet resources, playmobiles, etc.)
What worked well in this class? What did not work?
Every now and again with this particular student, grammar revision exercises like these are a wonderful tool to offer an low-stress way of revision and boost confidence. Spontaneous humor is a great thing at this point in the semester, too
How could this class be improved/ modified?
Please attach your lesson plan and handouts for this class below – if you used any