Goals for Уро́к 8
By the end of this unit you will be able to:
- talk about a city's features, comparing its pluses and minuses
- count objects
- understand certain specifics of Russian train travel
- name major tourist sites in and around the center of Moscow
- say in what century or in what year things happened
- give a biographical sketch of yourself or another person
- understand a text about the life of the painter Mikhail Vrubel
- use expressions that will help you navigate public transportation
- use compass points to describe a place's location
- say where objects are in a room (in front of / behind / between / above / under / next to)
To achieve these outcomes, you will learn this information about the language:
- genitive plural forms of nouns and adjectives
- use of the genitive singular and plural with counting and quantity expressions
- some comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs
- verbs connected with biography (being born, growing up, studying at, getting married, dying, etc.)
- marriage verbs and expressions (жени́ться, выходи́ть-вы́йти за́муж, жена́т, за́мужем, etc.)
- accusative case forms of plural animate nouns
- ordinal numbers for telling centuries and years
- time expressions with через and назад
- verbs of position (лежа́ть, стоя́ть, висе́ть, сиде́ть)
- instrumental prepositions showing position: пе́ред, за, ме́жду, над, под, ря́дом с
- prepositional case forms of personal pronouns
