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Year 10

The start of a two-year GCSE course. The Cyrillic alphabet; reading skills; Russian grammatical structure; lots of new vocabulary. Topics include: the family; towns; hobbies; directions; shopping; ordering meals; likes and dislikes; holidays; school. Grammar includes: personal and possessive pronouns; place adverbs; adjectives; verbs of motion; present and past tenses; two verb conjugations; six cases of nouns.

Year 11

Intensive listening and speaking practice; consolidating all tenses, conditional verbs and prefixed verbs of motion; holidays; travel; school; careers; daily routine; leisure; entertainment; health; medicine; public services; the media. There's a cultural visit to Moscow and St Petersburg.

Year 12

Deeper understanding of contemporary Russian culture and society; transformation of meaning and syntax; the world of work; education; travel; health and fitness; youth culture; social and cultural trends; acquiring vocabulary to start discussing short literary texts. You should visit Russia at some point during the holidays.

Year 13

One literary texts (Natalya Baranskaya's A Week Like Any Other); researching a topical debate for the final oral assessment; responding to authentic spoken language and written texts; translating into and out of Russian; essay-writing; contemporary culture and society; current media material.