Goals for Урок 4

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

• ask and tell about items that you and others do have / don’t have
• discuss what makes a good apartment/room by telling what features/furnishings it has
• indicate who owns an object
• use features of a cityscape to say what there is / is not in a neighborhood
• give relative distances between places using “far,” “not far” and “near to”
• ask and tell about one’s background (where you are from, where you were born, etc)
• indicate the names of your family members using “зовут” with family vocabulary nouns
• ask about and explain where someone was born, lived and went to school / college

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

1. forms of the genitive case singular in Russian for nouns, adjectives and pronouns
2. use of the genitive case to express ownership, absence, and “of” relations
3. use of the genitive case with some prepositions (у, из, от)
4. accusative case for animate masculine nouns
5. past tense forms of verbs
6. word который for linkage