The flexible, modular structure allows the textbook to meet the needs of a wide variety of Russian programs and language learners. This textbook structure will be designed to be easily navigated by language instructors with varying levels of teaching experience. The meticulous scaffolding of the textbook material gradually improves students' reading, listening, speaking and writing skills from ACTFL intermediate-mid to intermediate-high proficiency in Russian. Combines a communicative approach with a solid grammar foundation that will prepare students for further study at the advanced level. Provides conversations designed to allow a truly interactive classroom - consistent use of pair work, small group work, and whole-class activities. Uses standard contemporary conversational Russian, as well as proverbs and sayings consistently throughout. Offers a unique approach to Russian speech conventions, providing notes on appropriate speech behavior and etiquette. Cultural information provided throughout in Russian. An accompanying Student Activities Manual contains a wealth of practical exercises to reinforce the information presented within the textbook.

Range of practical activities that match the material in V Puti and allow students to reinforce their learning. Combines a communicative approach with a solid grammar foundation that will prepare students for further study at the advanced level. Provides conversations designed to allow a truly interactive classroom - consistent use of pair work, small group work, and whole-class activities. Uses standard contemporary conversational Russian, as well as proverbs and sayings consistently throughout. Offers a unique approach to Russian speech conventions, providing notes on appropriate speech behavior and etiquette. Cultural information provided throughout in Russian.

- A content-based and multi-skill blended approach that uses real-life content in the form of contemporary films. - Designed to help intermediate and advanced level students of Russian develop their linguistic and analytical skills, and increase their intercultural competence. - Linguistically, students will expand their vocabulary by approximately 1300-1400 lexical items, including specialized vocabulary for discussing films, improve their narration and description; and learn to discuss films both in the interpersonal and presentational modes of communication. - Students will enhance their analytical skills by learning to analyze films, including the main characters, conflicts, and the film structure, both orally and in writing, and write film reviews. - Learners will increase their intercultural competence by identifying, comparing, and contrasting cultural practices, products, and perspectives that are similar and those that are different in the Russian culture and in the students' own cultures.

The flexible, modular structure allows the textbook to meet the needs of a wide variety of Russian programs and language learners. This textbook structure will be designed to be easily navigated by language instructors with varying levels of teaching experience. The meticulous scaffolding of the textbook material gradually improves students' reading, listening, speaking and writing skills from ACTFL intermediate-mid to intermediate-high proficiency in Russian. Combines a communicative approach with a solid grammar foundation that will prepare students for further study at the advanced level. Provides conversations designed to allow a truly interactive classroom - consistent use of pair work, small group work, and whole-class activities. Uses standard contemporary conversational Russian, as well as proverbs and sayings consistently throughout. Offers a unique approach to Russian speech conventions, providing notes on appropriate speech behavior and etiquette. Cultural information provided throughout in Russian. An accompanying Student Activities Manual contains a wealth of practical exercises to reinforce the information presented within the textbook.

- A content-based and multi-skill blended approach that uses real-life content in the form of contemporary films. - Designed to help intermediate and advanced level students of Russian develop their linguistic and analytical skills, and increase their intercultural competence. - Linguistically, students will expand their vocabulary by approximately 1300-1400 lexical items, including specialized vocabulary for discussing films, improve their narration and description; and learn to discuss films both in the interpersonal and presentational modes of communication. - Students will enhance their analytical skills by learning to analyze films, including the main characters, conflicts, and the film structure, both orally and in writing, and write film reviews. - Learners will increase their intercultural competence by identifying, comparing, and contrasting cultural practices, products, and perspectives that are similar and those that are different in the Russian culture and in the students' own cultures.

Range of practical activities that match the material in V Puti and allow students to reinforce their learning. Combines a communicative approach with a solid grammar foundation that will prepare students for further study at the advanced level. Provides conversations designed to allow a truly interactive classroom - consistent use of pair work, small group work, and whole-class activities. Uses standard contemporary conversational Russian, as well as proverbs and sayings consistently throughout. Offers a unique approach to Russian speech conventions, providing notes on appropriate speech behavior and etiquette. Cultural information provided throughout in Russian.