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Contents of Modern Russian 1

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UNIT 1    
The Russian sound system   3
The Russian (Cyrillic) alphabet and the writing system   5
Remarks on stress   7
Discrepancies between the sound system and the writing system   8
Preparation for Conversation:   10
    Студент и студентка    Boy student and girl student   12
Basic sentence patterns   13
Structure and Drills    
    The present tense of the first conjugation verb илтй   14
     
UNIT 2    
Preparation for Conversation:   19
    Давно вас не видел    I haven't seen you for a long time   21
Basic sentence patterns   22
Correspondence between Cyrillic vowel letters and the vowel sounds   23
Structure and Drills    
    The present tense of the first conjugation verb работать   25
The Russian handwriting system   28
Syllabification of words in Russian   33
     
UNIT 3    
Preparation for Conversation:   35
    Лучше поздно, чем никогда    Better late than never   37
Basic sentence patterns   38
The alternation of voiced and voiceless consonants   39
Structure and Drills    
    The present tense of the second conjugation verb спешить   43
    Masculine, feminine, and plural endings of short-form adjectives   45
Чтение и письмо    READING AND WRITING   47
     
UNIT 4    
Preparation for Conversation:   49
    Разговор в общежйтии    Conversation in the dormitory   51
Basic sentence patterns   52
Introductory remarks on the Russian case system   53
Remarks on stems and endings: the concept of "zero" ending   54
Structure and Drills    
    Past tense of the verb быть   55
    The accusative form of inanimate masculine and neuter nouns   57
Чтение и письмо    READING AND WRITING   58
     
UNIT 5    
Preparation for Conversation:   61
    Что на обед?    What's for dinner?   63
Preparation for Conversation:   64
    Вы уже пообедали?    Have you had dinner already?   65
Basic sentence patterns   66
Pronunciation practice: hard versus soft consonants [t], [d], [n]   68
Grammatical gender of nouns   69
Verbal aspects   70
Structure and Drills    
    Replacement of nouns by third person pronouns: 6н, она, оно, and онй   72
    Interrogatives кто and что   73
    Introductory это   74
    The irregular present tense of хотеть   75
    The past tense   76
Чтение и письмо    READING AND WRITING   78
     
UNIT 6    
Preparation for Conversation:   83
    Первый день в университете   85
Preparation for Conversation:   86
    Американский студент   88
Basic sentence patterns   89
Pronunciation practice: hard versus soft consonants [s], [z], [r]   91
Intonation practice   92
The four noun declensions in Russian: стол-, окно-, жена-, and дверь- class nouns   94
Structure and Drills    
    The accusative singular of nouns ending in -a and -я   95
    The second conjugation verb говорить   97
    Possessive modifiers   98
    The perfective future of the first conjugation verbs пойти and взять   102
    The second conjugation verb видеть   104
    Second person imperatives: familiar versus plural-polite forms   105
Чтение и письмо   107
     
UNIT 7    
Preparation for Conversation:   109
    Я забыл свой портфель   111
Preparation for Conversation:   112
    Студенты писали о народах СССР   114
Pronunciation practice: hard versus soft consonants [p], [b], [m]   118
Intonation practice: part I - questions without question words   119
Structure and Drills    
    The nominative plural of nouns   120
    The nominative plural of possessive modifiers   125
    The prepositional case: singular and plural endings of nouns   127
    Prepositions в and на with the prepositional case   131
    The personal pronouns and interrogatives кто, что in the prepositional case   133
Remarks on stress shift in nouns   135
Чтение и письмо   136
     
UNIT 8    
Preparation for Conversation:   139
    Где мой словарь?   141
Preparation for Conversation:   142
    В магазине   143
Basic sentence patterns   145
Pronunciation practice: hard versus soft consonants [v], [f], [l]   147
Intonation practice: part II - questions without question words   149
Structure and Drills    
    To have in Russian: affirmative у constructions in the present tense   150
    To have had in Russian: affirmative у constructions in the past tense   152
    The genitive singular of nouns   154
    The genitive of кто, что, and the personal pronouns   156
    The genitive case in нет constructions   158
    The genitive case in не было constructions   160
Чтение и письмо   163
     
UNIT 9    
Preparation for Conversation:   167
    Замолвнте за меня словечко!   169
Preparation for Conversation:   169
    В горсовете   171
Basic sentence patterns   172
Pronunciation practice: hard consonants [k], [g], and [x] and their soft counterparts   176
Intonation practice: emphatic statements with rising-falling contours   177
Structure and Drills    
    The preposition у: further uses with the genitive case   179
    Prepositions meaning from: из, с, and от   182
    Other prepositions requiring the genitive case   185
    Verbs with infinitives ending in -чь: мочь and смочь   188
    Further past tense drills   190
Чтение и письмо   192
     
UNIT 10    
Preparation for Conversation:   195
    В субботу будут танцы   197
Preparation for Conversation:   198
    Олег думает пойти в кино   200
Basic sentence patterns   201
Pronunciation practice: unpaired consonants [š], [ž], [c], [č], [šč], and [j]   204
Intonation practice: review of falling intonation contours   206
Structure and Drills    
    The accusative of кто, что, and the personal pronouns   208
    The accusative singular of nouns   210
    Second conjugation verbs with a stem consonant change in the first person singular present-future   213
    The future of быть and the formation of the imperfective future   215
    Куда and где: directional versus locational concepts   218
Чтение и письмо   221
     
UNIT 11    
Preparation for Conversation:   225
    В кнно   227
Preparation for Conversation:   228
    После кино   230
Basic sentence patterns   231
Pronunciation practice: double consonants   234
Intonation practice: review of rising and rising-falling contours   235
Structure and Drills    
    The present-future of first conjugation verbs patterned like работать and идти   237
    The genitive plural of nouns   240
    The accusative plural of nouns   243
    The genitive case with не будет constructions   245
    The genitive case for the direct object of negated verbs   246
    Demonstrative зтот in the nominative, accusative, genitive, and prepositional cases   248
Чтение и письмо   250
     
UNIT 12    
Preparation for Conversation:   253
    Мы попутчики   255
Preparation for Conversation:   256
    В Москве   258
Basic sentence patterns   259
Pronunciation practice: special consonant clusters   262
Structure and Drills    
    Two-stem first conjugation verbs   263
    Genitive plural noun endings: special problems   266
    The use of the genitive after numbers   268
    Unidirectional versus multidirectional verbs of motion   269
    Long-form adjectives: nominative singular and plural   272
Чтение и письмо   276
     
UNIT 13    
Preparation for Conversation:   279
    Читайте «Вечернюю Москву»   282
Preparation for Conversation:   283
    Послушаем пластинки   285
Basic sentence patterns   286
Pronunciation practice: initial clusters with hard and soft [r]   289
Structure and Drills    
    The formation of the second person imperative   290
    The declension of adjectives: nominative, accusative, genitive, and prepositional cases   295
    The declension of чей and the possessive modifiers: nominative, accusative, genitive, and prepositional cases   299
    Review of second conjugation verbs   302
Чтение и письмо   306
     
UNIT 14    
Preparation for Conversation:   309
    На танцах   311
Preparation for Conversation:   312
    Игра в шахматы   313
Basic sentence patterns   314
Pronunciation practice: final clusters with hard and soft [r]   317
Structure and Drills    
    The dative of кто, что, the personal pronouns, and the reflexive personal pronoun себя   318
    The dative case in impersonal constructions   320
    The dative case with нужен, нужна, нужно, and нужны   323
    The imperfective verb давать and its perfective дать   325
    Suggestions that include the speaker: part I - perfective verbs   327
    Adverbs and short-form neuter adjectives ending in -o   330
Чтение и письмо   331
     
UNIT 15    
Preparation for Conversation:   335
    Поедем к нам на каникулы   337
Preparation for Conversation:   338
    Галя показывает Филиппу снимки   341
Basic sentence patterns   342
Pronunciation practice: consonant clusters with hard and soft [l]   345
Structure and Drills    
    The dative of nouns: singular and plural   346
    Dative constructions with надо   350
    The past tense of the imperfective verb идти and its prefixed perfective derivatives   352
    Suggestions that include the speaker: part II - imperfective verbs   355
    Impersonal constructions using the subjectless third person plural verb   356
Чтение и письмо   358
     
UNIT 16    
Preparation for Conversation:   361
    Несчастный случай   363
Preparation for Conversation:   364
    У доктора   367
Basic sentence patterns   368
Pronunciation practice: the voicing of ordinarily unvoiced consonants   371
Structure and Drills    
    Prepositions requiring the dative: к and по   371
    The dative endings of этот, чей, and the possessive pronoun modifiers   375
    The dative endings of adjectives: singular and plural   378
    Reflexive verbs - part I   380
    Нравиться, понравиться   383
Чтение и письмо   385
     
UNIT 17    
Preparation for Conversation:   389
    За грибами   391
Preparation for Conversation:   392
    Пирог с грибами   394
Basic sentence patterns   395
Pronunciation practice: the unvoicing of ordinarily voiced consonants   398
Structure and Drills    
    Nouns in the instrumental case   400
    The instrumental of кто, что, the personal pronouns, and the reflexive personal pronoun себя   404
    The instrumental of этот, чей, and the possessive modifiers   406
    Reflexive verbs - part II   408
    Nouns with declension irregularities: мать, дочь, сын, дерево, лист   412
Чтение и письмо   414
     
UNIT 18    
Preparation for Conversation:   419
    Прощай, школа!   422
Preparation for Conversation:   424
    Прощальная вечеринка   426
Basic sentence patterns   428
Pronunciation practice: clusters beginning with the letters с and з   431
Structure and Drills    
    Use of the instrumental in the predicate with verbs of being and becoming   433
    The instrumental of adjectives   436
    Adjectives and pronouns (in adjectival form) which function as nouns   438
    Reflexive verbs - part III   440
Perfectivization by prefix по- to indicate a limited amount of the activity   443
Чтение и письмо   445
     
Appendix   449
     
Vocabulary   465
     
Index   476
     
 
 
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