T.C.
ATILIM UNIVERSITY
Department of Foreign Languages
201-2014 Spring
FLR 002
Communication Skills II
1. To gain students basic Russian reading, writing, speaking and understanding
General Aim
skills.
2. By studying the texts and dialogues in the course book, students try to use daily
Russian language.
3. At the end of this level, students are going to be capable of reading and asking
questions of an intermediate level texts and communicate.
In accordance with the purposes and academic calender, the students are aimed to:
Course Goals
And
Content
1. Phonetic and pronunciation: practising Russian phonetic rules and pronunciation
activities are done.
2. Texts: logic of Russian language and speaking structures are covered by the help
of coursebook texts and dialogues.
3. New vocabulary: practising new vocabulary with their meanings and using them in
daily conversations.
4. Essential daily vocabulary is taught and sentence structure types are explained.
The differences between Turkish and Russian are compared.
5. Reading and revision: The known vocabulary, sentence and phrases are reviewed
by reading and speaking skills developing exercises.
6. Exercises: practising Russian by the exercises in the course book and prepaired
materials.
7. Grammar: practicing grammar structures given in the texts and daily
conversations.
8. Culture: Basic Russian language and culture information is given. National songs
are listened.
During the course time, in order to reach the targetted objectives, students are going
Specific Course
Activities
to realise the following activities:
1. Attend and participate to the lesson
2. read the texts and dialogues, practise the related activities.
3. propose, guess and develop ideas and express them in suitable ways.
4. study vocabulary and develop meaning guessing techniques.
5. practise on Russian grammar structures for effective usage.
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6. make presentations on defined subjects.
7. Participate actively in all activities like reading, writing, speaking and listening.
The selected course book is both used in Russia and suitable for Russian learning
Course Material
students. Students have to buy the original published book. In addition, students can
do listening activities from the CD given with the course book.
Course Assessment
The students will be assessed as follows during the semester:
Midterm
40%
Final
60%
Total:
100%
Grading Scale
The following letter grade system will be employed for this course.
Students should not expect a ‘Curve’ to be employed. DFL reserves the right
to announce a Catalog or Curve.
AA
BA
BB
CB
CC
DC
DD
FD
FF
Expectations from
Students
: 90 – 100
: 85 – 89
: 80 – 84
: 75 – 79
: 70 – 74
: 65 – 69
: 60 – 64
: 50 – 59
: 0 – 49
.
Expectations from Students
1. Attendance is a must. The students who exceed 30% attendance limit will
not be able to take the final exam.
2. Attendance is taken at the end of each class hour. Students are required to
keep track of their own attendance. The instructor is not responsible for
supplying regular attendance figures to students.
3. Medical reports are only accepted to give a chance to take the exams
missed other than the final only if they are submitted in due course and with
proper attribution to the regulations of the university.
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4. Students must attend and be prepared to become an active and successful
participant of the course. To do this:
a. They have to come to class with the relevant course material.
(Notebook, pen, course book, reading material, etc.).
b. They should keep the deadlines of assignments and tasks.
c. They should actively participate in the classroom discussions.
d. They are not allowed to activate mobile phones during class.
6. Students have to be punctual to all lessons.
7. Academic honesty is expected from all students. Plagiarism is using
another person's ideas, words, and style without citing its source. This is
stealing and will not be tolerated. A plagiarized work will receive a failing
grade.
2013-2014
Spring Term
FLR 002
Communication Skills
II
Weekly Plan
1. Week:
Revision of the Fall term subjects
2. Week :
Spelling and pronunciation exercises on Russian intonation
3. Week :
“Answering
“ WHEN” question and dilaogues
4. Week :
Gender forms of nouns
5. Week :
Subject pronouns and related exercises
6. Week :
Speaking activities and daily conversation structures
7. Week :
Plural forms of nouns and related exercises
8. Week :
midterm
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9. Week:
Possessive pronouns, simple reading texts, question and answer exercises
10. Week :
Conjugation of 1. Group verbs and related exercises
11. Week :
Types of adjectives and prefixes and suffixes to adjectives
12. Week:
Exercises related to adjectives
13. Week:
Conjugation of 2. Group verbs and related exercises
14. Week :
General review, speaking practice and final preparation.
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