Below are four short videos covering the core material in the eleventh language session:

• 11a: reading and writing practice
• 11b: reading and writing practice
• 11c: reading and writing practice
• 11d: reading and writing practice

Issues covered in this series of videos:

• forming the past tense in Russian (revision)
• what is aspect?
• verb pairs
• worked examples

Below are four short videos covering the core material in the tenth language session:

• 10a: reading and writing practice
• 10b: reading and writing practice
• 10c: reading and writing practice
• 10d: reading and writing practice

Issues covered in this series of videos:

• conjugation 2 revision (10a and 10b)
• forming the past tense in Russian (10c)
• reading practice (10d)
• using prefixes (в- and вы-) (10d)

Below are three short videos covering the core material in the ninth language session:

• 9a: reading and writing practice
• 9b: reading and writing practice
• 9c: reading and writing practice
• 9d: reading and writing practice

Issues covered in this series of videos:

• numerals (revision)
• conjugation 2 verbs; example – говорить “to speak or say”
• reading practice
• more vocabulary and exercise 7.5 from the книжечка

Below are three short videos covering the core material in the eighth language session:

• 8a: reading and writing practice
• 8b: reading and writing practice
• 8c: reading and writing practice
• See list below

Issues covered in this series of videos:

• revision of conjugations 1a and 1b
• introducing adjective endings
• reading practice
• some adjectives (vocabulary building)

Vocabulary building

• тёмный dark
• тёплый warm
• толстый fat, thick
• трудный difficult
• холодный cold
• хороший good, nice
• частый frequent
• медленный slow
• молодой young
• мягкий soft
• новый new
• первый first
• печальный sad
• плохой bad
• последний last
• старый old
• счастливый happy
• твёрдый hard

Below are four short videos covering the core material in the seventh language session:

• 7a: reading and writing practice
• 7b: reading and writing practice
• 7c: reading and writing practice
• 7d: reading and writing practice

Issues covered in this series of videos:

• short dialogue in a cafe on the Arbat
• revision of present tense of the verb (1b conjugation)
• introduction to 1a verb conjugation in present tense (consonant-ending stem, stressed endings)
• list of verbs learnt so far

Below are four short videos covering the core material in the sixth language session:

• 6a: reading and writing practice
• 6b: reading and writing practice
• 6c: reading and writing practice
• 6d: reading and writing practice

Issues covered in this series of videos:

• reading practice (text on page 26)
• revision of verbs learnt so far
• the Russian verb (conjugation 1):  verbs not stressed on the stem
• practising transcription

Below are four short videos covering the core material in the fifth language session:

• 5a: reading and writing practice
• 5b: reading and writing practice
• 5c: reading and writing practice
• 5d: reading and writing practice

Issues covered in this series of videos:

• revision of all letters
• a short text (Peter Green and the border official)
• the Russian verb (conjugation 1): stem-stressed verbs
• exercise: conjugating verbs of this type