Forward! A Guide to Russian Conversational Speech

Forward!» — a guide to Russian conversational speech for foreign students at an advanced stage of learning (and the certification level of general language proficiency), that is, for all who have mastered the basic course of Russian grammar and want to activate and expand their vocabulary. . .

The guide consists of eight main topics (sections): 

1. Travel. Weather. 

2. Free time. 

3. Introductions (formal and informal). 

4. Clothing. 

5. Character and appearance of a person. 

6. Food. 

7. Health. 

8. Home. Household chores. 

Each section includes mini-monologues, texts, including ones of a geographical nature, and exercises for speech development and grammatical material practice (mainly those language difficulties that require constant repetition). Several sections contain a vocabulary of thematic lexicon. . . The guide is equipped with keys to the exercises, so it can be used both in work with a teacher and for self-study. . . The disk attached to the guide contains the audio recording of exercise 1 for each of the eight topics of the guide. . .