HOMEWORK
CALENDAR
Below you will find a calendar containing all homework
assignments for Kristine Shmakov's RUS 201 class. I will make every
effort to post HW assignments by 7 pm the day that they are made.
Assignments are always due at the
begining
of the next class session.
If you are absent, make sure to check whether
we will be having an in-class assignment next class, so that
you can prepare for it. At the end of the calendar, you'll find a list
of homework completion guidlines. If you have any questions regarding
the homework, please call me at (503) 977-4841 or email me at
kshmakov@pdxlink.com
Fall quarter
homework assignments and class activities:
Monday, Sept. 21:
Homework 1: p. 1 ex. 1 and 2.
Today's class activities: Went over syllabus and course guidelines;
vocabulary introduction p. 11-12; verbs that take
infinitives; p. 21-22
oral exercise; impersonal expressions; p. 23 written exercise; verb
умееть conjugation; p. 24 oral
interview.
Wednesday, Sept. 23:
HW 2: p. 1 ex. 3, p. 2 ex. 5,
p. 54-55.
Learn the verbs on p. 11-12 and know how to
conjugate them.
Today's class activities: Read Dasha's
letter, p. 1 Live from Moscow book; Watched episode 1 of Live from
Moscow and did listening
comprehension exercises and discussed episode. Reported information
from p. 24. Reviewed how to
conjugate Type I, Ia, II and овать/евать verbs.
Classified all verbs on p. 11-12 as to verb type. Did p. 35 ex. 12, p.
32 ex. 9 and also interview similar to p. 34 ex. 11.
Monday, Sept. 28:
HW 3: p. 2 ex. 6, p. 3 ex. 8,
p. 56-57. (All assignments from HW book.)
Do corrections for HW 1. (Please correct the mistakes in a different
color pen above the original
mistake. Do not erase your original mistake and
write over it, rewrite
the assignment or put corrections on a separate page. This
makes
it much harder for me to check your corrections. mework corrections are
worth 3 pts, and they are due the next class
after you receive the homework back from me. Late homework corrections
will not be accepted.)
Learn the verbs on p. 11-12 and know how to
conjugate them.
Today's class activities: Watched episode 2 LFM (Live from Moscow) and
did accompanying exercises. Wrote sentences in pairs
using new verbs. Played die game or battleship to practice conjugating
verbs. Read text on p. 27-28, watched
slide show and discussed text. Discussed p. 31 in
pairs. Began to watch Internet video with answer sheet on p. 39-40.
We will finish this next class.
Wednesday, Sept. 30:
HW 4: p. 2 ex. 7. Prepare for
in-class assignment. I will include only the new verbs from p. 11-12.
(Not old verbs like читать,
писать, играть, готовить, слушать, смотреть, работать). Your sentences
should be simple for this.
HW 5: p. 4 ex. 9, p. 58-59.
Do corrections for HW 2.
Know adjective endings in nominative and accusative case.
Today's class activities: Finished up video p. 39-40. Reviewed
nominative case adjective endings with p. 41 in pairs. (See p. 18 for
grammar). Reviewed accusative case adjective endings by doing p. 42
together as a class. (See p. 19-20 for grammar.). Wrote p. 43 in pairs.
Learned new verbs that take accusative case on p. 44. (p. 20 has
grammar) and then wrote p. 45 ex. 20 in pairs. We will finish going
over this exercise next class.
Monday, Oct. 5th:
HW 6: p. 4 ex. 10, p. 60-61.
Do corrections for HW 3.
Learn new verbs that take accusative case and accusative case endings.
Today's class activities: Watched episode 3 Live from Moscow and did
accompanying exercises. Finished going over p. 45 ex. 20. Did a story
writing exercise with new accusative verbs. p. 49-50 I and II-story
preview work. Listened to p. 51 story being read. Did p. 53 ex. 1
orally in pairs.
Wednesday, Oct. 7th:
HW 7: p. 5 ex. 1. Prepare for
in-class assignment. You will need to be able to write all the words in
Russian.
HW 8: p. 5 ex. 2 and p. 65-67
(You don't have to turn in p. 66).
Do corrections for HW 4 and 5.
Learn all animal vocabulary well.
Today's class activities: Discussed story "Первые цветы"and did p. 53
ex. 1 and 2. Started ch. 2 on animals. Did p. 79 ex. 1, p. 81 ex. 3 and
4 all orally. Went over new adjectives and verbs for animals on p. 82.
Did an oral activity with plastic toy animals stating what you like or
don't like about certain animals. "Мне нравятся слоны потому что они
огромные. Мне нравится, как они ходят."Finally, went through animal
proverbs on p. 84 and figured out what they meant.
Monday, Oct. 12th: (10 people were out
sick today!)
HW 9: p. 5 ex. 3, p. 6 ex. 4
(change directions to read 12 animals!),
and p. 6 ex. 5.
Do corrections for HW 6.
Learn endings for animate accusative plural.
Today's class activities: Watched episode 4 LFM and did accompanying
exercises. (If you were absent, you can use script at the back of the
LFM booklet.); Did in-class assignment on animal vocabulary.
Introduction to animate plural nouns in the accusative
case (I love walruses.) See p. 69-71. Did interview on p. 95 to find
out which animals people love and reported info. Went to the Nizhniy
Novgorod Zoo on p. 96-97 and decided what we wanted to see. Reviewed
difference between adjectives and adverbs. Did a modified version of p.
98-99. (You can do ex. in book if you were gone.)
Wednesday, Oct. 14th: (11 people out
sick today! Hope everyone's healthy soon.)
HW 10: p. 6 ex. 6, p. 70-72.
HW 11: p. 7 ex. 7. Prepare for
in-class.
Do corrections for HW 7 and 8.
Learn endings for animate accusative plural
Today's class activities: Read text on p. 100-101; answered questions
about text on p. 102. Discussed pets you have/have had using p. 103.
Preview vocabulary exercise for story on p. 104-107. Read p. 105-107 in
pairs. Watched cartoon version of story. (posted on class website under
Трое из Простоквашино. Answered questions on p. 108 about story. Did
writing activity on p. 109.
Monday, Oct. 20th: (Another 13
people out sick today! I feel so badly for all of you!)
HW 12: p. 74-80 (two reading
selections.)
HW 13, which will be for next
Monday, not Wednesday: Learn all the imperfective/perfective infinitive
pairs on p.
110-111. (Use reference list on p. 73-74 if you were
sick to fill in exercises.)
Do corrections for HW 9.
Today's class activities: Watched episode 5 LFM and did accompanying
exercises. (If you were absent, you can use script
at the back of the
LFM booklet.); Reviewed perfective infinitives for first year verbs on
p. 110. Reviewed use of
perfectives for series and did an exercise on the
overhead that's not in text. Reviewed use of perfectives for completed
actions and did another exercise on overhead that's
not in text. Learned perfective infinitives for new verbs on p. 111;
played tic tac to with new verbs- handout from
class, but you can also do p. 112 in book.
If you were absent today, you will be able to make
up the in-class assignment on animals when you return to class.
Wednesday, Oct. 22th:
HW 13: Learn all the
imperfective/perfective infinitive
pairs on p. 110-111 for an in-class assignment. I will provide a list
of 57 imperfective infinitives. You'll need to write
the perfective infinitives for at least 25 to get a score of 10. Extra
credit will be donned upon those
who get more than 25 correct.
HW 14: Fairy tale Морозко p.
8-15. CIRCLE the correct verb.
Do corrrections for HW 10 and 11.
Learn all imperfective and perfective pairs.
Today's class activities: Played a board game to practive imp./perf.
verb pairs. Reviewed main uses of imperfective and
perfective verbs in past tense. (See p. 76-78.);
Read p. 114-121 together and discussed usage of verbal aspect (imp. vs.
perf.); p. 122-choose correct verb; p. 126-127 more
choosing the correct verb; p. 124 aswered questions using realia on
p. 123 and 124. Started p. 125 for last 5 minutes of
class. Will continue this on Monday.
Monday, Oct. 26th:
HW 15: p. 16 ex. 11- Write a
connected story using the pictures in the past tense. Write a minimum
of 3 sentences for each picture. + p. 81-83.
Do corrections for HW 12.
Today's class activities: Watched episode 6 LFM and did accompanying
exercises. (If you were absent, you can use script
at the back of the
LFM booklet.) Reviewed imp./perf. pairs with flashcards; Took in-class
quiz on verb pairs; Finished p. 125 ex. 23. Orally
told story about p. 16 ex. 11 in homework book. Then each group
received an overhead with one picture. They wrote as
much as they could about that part of the story. Then we went over the
overhead in order as a class to
see how the whole story turned out.
Wednesday, Oct. 28th:
HW 16: p. 17 ex. 13, p. 18 ex.
14 and p. 87-89. (Use the master verb list in your green grammar book
to check verb conjugations)
Do corrections for HW 13 and 14.
Learn all verb conjugations for the perfective verbs we covered in
class.
Today's class activities: Introduction to perfective future and
structure of Russian verbs. (See p. 71-72 in text.) Contrasting
imperfective and perfective future formation. Did p.
128 ex. 25 - chose correct aspect. Uses for aspect are still the same
as with past tense, just now are working with future
tense. Did p. 129 ex. 26 together to introduce conjugation patters
for perfective verbs. (Lots of Ia
verbs. If you were absent use the master verb list in the green grammar
book to figure out the stems for
each verb.); Played battleship on p. 132-133; Wrote p. 130-131 all
perfective future; Played Uno game in perfective
future; Did two drill exercises on overhead on perfective future series
and imp. vs. perf. future formation.
Monday, Nov. 2nd:
HW 17: p. 18 ex. 5
HW 18: in-class assignment
imperfective and perfective future formation. I will give you a list of
infinitives and pronouns. If the infinitive is imperfective, you will
form the imperfetive future. (For example: читать (я) will be я
буду читать). If the infinitive is perfective, you will form the
perfective future. (For example: прочитать (я) will be я прочитаю.) You
will need to know all the verbs on p. 110 and p. 129. I will not ask
you any Ia verbs that are not on p. 129.
Do corrections for HW 15.
Today's class activities: Watched episode 7 LFM and did accompanying
exercises. (If you were absent, you can use script
at the back of the
LFM booklet.); Reviewed future tense formation; p. 134-135; p. 136-137;
p. 138.
Wednesday, Nov. 4th:
HW 18: retaking in-class on
imperfective and perfective future formation. Same directions as before
(see above.) Everyone must pass this quiz with a B.
If not, you will be required to stay after class every day for the rest
of the quarter
and retake it until you can pass it with a B. This will be very
inconvenient and hopefully serve as a motivator to learn
these verbs sooner than later.
HW 19: p. 19 ex. 2 + p. 90-91.
For ex. 2, remember that after у меня you use the nominative case!
Learn house and furniture vocabulary on pp. 145-146.
Do corrections for HW 16.
Today's class activities: Took
quiz on imperfective and perfective future; learned names of rooms in a
Russian apartment on p. 161 ex. 1; introduction to furniture and home
stuff vocabulary on p. 145-146; did p. 163-164; did an activity with
furniture and room vocabulary; reviewed colors; p. 166 ex. 8-new
adjectives; played a team competition game with imperfective and
perfective future verbs from quiz.
Monday, Nov. 9th:
HW 18: Study for retake on
imperfective and perfective future formation if you are supposed to
retake it after class on Monday.
HW 20: p. 19 ex. 1- Prepare
for in-class on furniture and rooms pp. 145-146.
HW 21: p. 19 ex. 3, p. 20 ex.
20 + p. 92-93.
Do corrections for HW 16.
Learn genitivie case adjective and nouns endings.
Today's class activities: Watched
episode 8 LFM and did accompanying
exercises. (If you were absent, you can use
script at the back of the
LFM booklet.); Reviewed verb conjugation system; retook verb quiz;
reviewed у меня есть +
nominative case and у меня нет + genitive case; did
note card interview about things you have and don't have at home.
Introduction to adjectives in genitive case; Did p.
169 ex. 11 together as a class; Did another notecard interview about
things you have and don't have at home, but this
time there were adjectives for each thing. (Example: белый диван).
Wednesday, November 11th:
No class- Veteran's Day
Monday, November 16th:
HW 22: p. 20 ex. 5, p. 20 ex. 6.
HW 18: Study for retake on
imperfective and perfective future formation if you are supposed to
retake it after class on Wednesday. I will email you tomorrow on
Tuesday if you need to do thi
Do corrections for HW 17 and 18.
Today's class activities: Watched
Watched
first half of episode 9 LFM and did accompanying
exercises. (If you were absent, you can use script at the back of the
LFM booklet.); took quiz on furniture and room vocabulary; p. 176-177
read text; p. 178 ex. 19-discussed questions about text; p.
173-expressing opinions about where to live; introduction to adjectives
in prepositional case; p. 174 ex. 16; p. 175 ex. 17.
Wednesday, November 18th:
HW 23: Prepare for in-class
writing assignment on where you live. You can write what ever you want,
but it needs to be a cohesive paragraph with a minimum of 10 sentences.
I encourage you to keep things simple.
HW 24: p. 94-95 reading.
Do corrections for HW 19, 20, 21.
Today's class activities:
Reviewed adjective endings in prepositional case; p. 175 in pairs; p.
179 in pairs then had class discussion; watched video and answered
questions on p. 180- you can find video on website under ch. 3 at end
of chapter links; Introduction to genitive case endings and uses; group
activities with pictures; p. 188 ex. 23.
Homework completion guidlines:
1. Complete all
homework on a separate piece of paper, unless it is a
listening comprehension exercise or otherwise noted. Please use
one sheet of paper for each homework assignment, unless you cannot fit
all the exercises on one page. Write the page and exercise number at
the top of the page.
2. Always write in
cursive. You may use either pencil or pen. Please do not use red
or glitter pens. You may not type
homework assignments, since it is important to get lots of
practice writing in Cyrillic.
3. You must do your
homework entirely on your own. You may not receive any help from
the tutor, a native Russian speaker or another student in the class.
This is considered cheating. If you need help, please come see me.
4. Listening
comprehension assignments should be completed using the answer sheets
from the homework book. Please mark your answers on these sheets and
turn them in. All listening materials are available on the course
website.
5. When you prepare
for an in-class assignment you do not need to turn anything in to me. These
exercises are simply there so that you will know what material will be
covered on the in-class writing assignments.
6. When doing corrections,
please correct the mistakes in a different color pen above the original
mistake. Do not erase your original mistake and write over it, rewrite
the assignment or put corrections on a separate page. This makes
it much harder for me to check your corrections. mework corrections are
worth 3 pts, and they are due the next class
after you receive the homework back from me. Late homework corrections
will not be accepted.
7. If you receive a
grade lower than a 7 (a C) on your homework, you must redo the
assignment and turn it in the next class period. This is a
safety net that prevents you from ever getting a non-passing grade on
homework. You should see me or the tutor for help before redoing an
assignment. Redos are worth 7 points. Late redos will
automatically receive only 5 points.
8. Extra credit
homework are due by the last day of class.