The centerpiece of a truly integrated multi-media system for teaching Russian, RussianAlive! is now available in a new expanded edition, which incorporates suggestions from the over 100 schools where it is used to teach first-year Russian. Approximately 100 contact hours are required to cover all 35 lessons in RussianAlive!. However, the textbook has been organized in such a fashion that the essential grammar of Russian, including all cases (nouns, adjectives and pronouns, singular and plural), as well as the basic Russian tenses and aspects, are treated in the first 25 lessons. This arrangement will permit teachers with as few as 75 contact hours to cover the essential grammar of Russian. Lessons 26 to 35 can be introduced in any order, according to individual preferences.
Among its features are:
* illustrated basic vocabulary
* convenient grammar summaries
* topical organization of grammar
* flexible order of lesson materials
* mini-essays on Russian culture
* student activity sheets
* quick drills
* pic-drills
* visualization exercises
* branching to contextualized exercises and activities in Welcome to Divnograd!
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Katherine Tieman O'Connor is Professor of Russian at Boston University, and the author of Boris Pasternak's My Sister-Life: The Illusion of Narrative. She is currently writing a book on Chekhov's letters.
EIlendea Proffer has translated plays and prose by Bulgakov, and is the author of Mikhail Bulgakov: Life and Work.
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