Goals for Урок 7

By the end of this unit you will be able to:

• show you know traditions connected with Russian New Years celebrations and know of a few other holidays in the Russian calendar
• understand names of typical dishes served in Russia, talk about whether you would like to eat them, and know what they are made of
• talk about what you eat and drink with (or without) what (coffee without sugar, tea with lemon, pizza with sausage)
• use Russian to be a polite guest, a gracious host, offer toasts, etc.
• talk about how you spend free time, what sports and other activities you are into, what you want to become after college
• order a meal in a restaurant
• understand and talk more about biography: jobs and education
• understand and report on weather
• understand and talk about regional climates
• understand an account of a journey or trip, including leaving and arriving

To achieve these outcomes, you will learn this information about the language:

1. the names of Russian dishes, ingredients, place settings
2. the conjugation of the verbs есть (to eat) and пить (drink) in their imperfective and perfective forms
3. commands and other phrases for extending invitations to go somewhere, making compliments, offering toasts
4. instrumental case forms of nouns, adjectives and pronouns to express these ideas:
   1. accompaniment (с чем with what / с кем with whom)
   2. “instrument” – what you use to do something (eating with a fork)
   3. what you are occupied by or “into” (заниматься and увлекаться)
   4. compound subjects (Robert and I = we with Robert)
5. impersonal constructions for talking about weather (здесь жарко)
6. impersonal constructions with dative to talk about feelings  (мне холодно)
7. using идти to talk about precipitation (идёт дождь / идёт снег)
8. directional prefixes при- / у- with verbs of motion to describe parts of a journey
9. the verb “fly”