Svetlana Flemming - Colloquial Russian - The Next Step in Language Learning

2 (Professionaĺ;noe masterstvo´) vedu´]ix NTV stal ohen; populqŕnym. 3 Mno´gie gaze´ty skoŕo zakro´[tsq (nedosta´tok deńeg) v strane´. 4 (Xoro´wee nastroeńie) on byśtro zakońhil

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rabo´tu. 5 (Cenzuŕa) na televi´denii televedu´]im tepeŕ; tru´dno 2

rabo´tat;. 6 Vheraśamole¨ty ne letaĺi (ploxa´q pogo´da).

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B And now replace these phrases by clauses with blagodarq´ tomu´, 5

hto or iz-za togo´, hto.

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Example: iz-za tq'e¨logo \konomi´heskogo polo'eńiq – iz-7

za togo´, hto v strane´ tq'e¨loe \konomi´heskoe

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polo'eńie

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Exercise 12

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Examine the programmes advertised on three Russian television chan-5

nels (see page 144) and answer the questions in English.

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1 Which feature films are on ORT?

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2 What sports programmes are on?

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3 Which channel shows the most cartoons?

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4 On which channel is there a travel programme?

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5 At what time is it possible to see the news on all channels?

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6 What programmes about animals are on?

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Language points

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Stress

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Neuter nouns

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Fixed stress – stress remains on the same syllable throughout the 2

declension, singular and plural: 'elańie, gosudaŕstvo, izveśtie.

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This group contains mostly words with three or more syllables, but 4

also a small number of two syllable nouns: goŕlo, bl[´do, hu´vstvo, 5

kreślo, soĺnce.

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Mobile stress – there are three main types of mobile stress on neuter 7

nouns.

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Type 1 – stress on the ending in the singular and stem in the plural: 40

lico´ (gen. sing. lica´; nom. pl. lića; gen. pl. lic; dat. plu lićam, 1

etc.); vino´, pis;mo´, hislo´, okno´, qjco´, selo´. Most of these nouns 421111

have two syllables, but there are some with three. In this case the

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The mass media

Voskresen;e

15 APRELQ

KANAL ORT

KANAL

KANAL NTV

7.45 Slovo pastyrq.

7.30

8.00, 10.00, 12.00,

Mitropolit Kirill.

pozdravlq[!>. Xud.

16.00 Segodnq.

8.00, 18.00 Novosti.

fil;m

8.15

8.10 Armejskij

9.00 Russkoe loto.

Granta>. Xud.

magazin.

9.40 TV bingo-wou

fil;m.

8.40 Disnej-klub

10.35 Dobroe utro,

10.15

strana.

Evangelie>. Fil;m

9.05 Utrennqq zvezda.

11.05 Anwlag.

Sergeq Kostina iz

10.00, 15.00 Novosti

12.00 Gorodok.

cikla

(s surdo perevodom).

12.30 Bol;waq

istoriq>.

10.10 Neputevye

strana.

11.40 Professiq –

zametki.

13.10 Parlamentskij

reporter. Vitalij

10.30 Poka vse doma.

has

Buzuev.

11.10

14.00 Vesti.

krest>.

tajgi>. Xud. fil;m.

14.20 Dialogi o

12.25 Depressiq.

12.45 Utrennqq pohta

'ivotnyx.

12.50

13.20 Klub