Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A tribute to Terence Wade
- Introduction
- Unit 1 Towns and buildings. The household. Gardens
- Unit 2 The physical world
- Unit 3 The human body and health
- Unit 4 Appearance and movement
- Unit 5 Personality and human behaviour
- Unit 6 Clothes, footwear, and accessories. Food and drink
- Unit 7 Perception
- Unit 8 Shapes and patterns. Size and quantity. Containers
- Unit 9 Visual and performing arts
- Unit 10 Literature and literary criticism. Speaking, reading, and writing
- Unit 11 Leisure
- Unit 12 Tourism, travel, and transport
- Unit 13 Family, birth, death, and marriage
- Unit 14 Education
- Unit 15 Agriculture. Industry
- Unit 16 Business and commerce
- Unit 17 The office and computing. Post and telecommunications
- Unit 18 Law and finance
- Key to exercises
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A tribute to Terence Wade
- Introduction
- Unit 1 Towns and buildings. The household. Gardens
- Unit 2 The physical world
- Unit 3 The human body and health
- Unit 4 Appearance and movement
- Unit 5 Personality and human behaviour
- Unit 6 Clothes, footwear, and accessories. Food and drink
- Unit 7 Perception
- Unit 8 Shapes and patterns. Size and quantity. Containers
- Unit 9 Visual and performing arts
- Unit 10 Literature and literary criticism. Speaking, reading, and writing
- Unit 11 Leisure
- Unit 12 Tourism, travel, and transport
- Unit 13 Family, birth, death, and marriage
- Unit 14 Education
- Unit 15 Agriculture. Industry
- Unit 16 Business and commerce
- Unit 17 The office and computing. Post and telecommunications
- Unit 18 Law and finance
- Key to exercises
Summary
Aims
Using Russian Vocabulary is intended to provide the student of Russian with a comprehensive and structured approach to the learning of vocabulary. It can be used right from the outset in intermediate and advanced undergraduate courses, or as a supplementary manual at all levels – including the elementary one – to supplement the study of vocabulary. It is designed to provide the learner with a broad treatment of those vocabulary topics that are not covered as designated areas of study in typical language courses, and thus can be used to ‘fill in the vocabulary gaps’ that such courses invariably leave. Additionally, this book can be easily adapted for profitable use in ‘Language for Special Purposes’ courses.
The guiding principle behind the plan of this book is the idea that students need to acquire a comprehensive control of concrete and abstract vocabulary to carry out essential communicative and interactional tasks – an area of learning that is often neglected by other types of textbooks for the simple reason that they are more focused on presenting other aspects of the language.
Using Russian Vocabulary, therefore, is designed to:
provide a vocabulary-training tool that can be used throughout the undergraduate programme in Russian as the student progresses through it;
provide a practical topic-based textbook that can be inserted into all kinds of course syllabi to impart a sense of how the language can be used in specific ways;
promote self-instruction in the language;
facilitate the acquisition of vocabulary items to which the student would not ordinarily be exposed;
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- Using Russian Vocabulary , pp. 1 - 2Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009