GCSE Russian (9-1): Course Planner

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 Introduction
This course planner provides one possible two-year course model for teaching GCSE Russian (9-1). This model is a suggestion only
and there are a number of valid ways of structuring courses. The model should be adapted by centres to work for their individual
timetables and is not prescriptive. This course planner is provided in editable Word format to make adaptation as easy as possible.

The example model below is based on the following principles:

● Three 12-week terms per academic year.
● A focussed revision period at the end of the course – the summer term of the final year of study would be used for revision and final
examination preparation for linear assessment and 100% final examinations.
● The number of hours allocated to GCSE Russian each week will depend on the individual centre’s timetable, but here an average of two
hours each week has been assumed as this fits with research carried out with schools, and fits 120 guided learning hours.

The time allocated to each of the elements of the specification reflects the weighting of that element, as shown in the table below –
all skills have an equal weighting and are worth 25% each in the final assessment, so equal amounts of time should be spent on each
skill when covering the five themes in the Edexcel specification. The five themes are: Identity and culture; Local area, holiday and
travel; School; Future aspirations, study and work; International and global dimension. All themes and topics must be studied in
the context of both the students’ home country and that of countries and communities where Russian is spoken. There
will be equal weighting between the themes in the assessment.

Skill Weighting Assessment

objectives
Listening 25% AO1
Speaking 25% AO2

Reading 25% AO3

Writing 25% AO4

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 Two-year Course Planner
Term 1 Local area, holiday and travel; School

Term 2 Identity and culture; Future

aspirations, study and work; Local
area, holiday and travel; School

Term 3 Local area, holiday and travel;

Identity and culture; Future
aspirations, study and work; School

Term 4 Identity and culture; Local area,

holiday and travel; Future aspirations,
study and work; International and
global dimension; revision

Term 5 School; Future aspirations, study and

work; Identity and culture;
International and global dimension;
revision

Term 6 Revision

Centres should note that a greater amount of time may be spent in class on the theme of Identity and Culture as this incorporates
many areas that students will want to talk about and also gives good opportunities to teach much of the required grammar and
vocabulary, as well as providing a good transition from KS3, but that there will be equal weighting between the themes in the
assessment.

Centres should adapt these models to work for their individual timetables.

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 Example Scheme of Work
The following scheme of work shows how the content could be taught over the times specified in the course planner above. This
scheme of work shows one of a number of possible orders of topics and approaches to grammar coverage. It is also available as a
separate document and more detailed schemes of work will be made available in due course, which may include some changes to
teaching order.

This is intended as an example approach only and is not prescriptive: it should be adapted by schools to fit their timetabling and
staffing arrangements.

Term Theme Sub-theme(s) Grammar

1 Year 10 – Local area, holiday and Holidays – regular past tense verbs, singular & plural
Autumn (1) travel Travel and tourist transactions – past tense singular & plural of идти and быть
Town, region and country – revision of regular prepositional singular, including
endings for -ия nouns
– weather constructions in past tense, including было
– verbs of motion – ездить & ходить
– irregular prepositional singular endings
– regular adjectives in singular & plural
– spelling rule
Year 10 – Local area, holiday and Travel and tourist transactions – modular можно + infinitive, in present, past and future
Autumn (2) travel Town, region and country – genitive singular and plural with common expressions of
quantity (много & мало)
School What school is like
– Где & куда
– В (на) + accusative or prepositional
– regular imperatives
– direct objects rendered by accusative case (singular
nouns, singular adjectives + nouns)

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 Term Theme Sub-theme(s) Grammar
2 Year 10 – Identity and culture Daily life – adverbs, including use with это
Spring (1) Who am I? – time – 12-hour clock (hours & half hours); 24-hour clock
– time structures with and without prepositions (утром, по
Future aspirations, study Work
субботам, в среду, etc.); for duration (на неделю, etc.)
and work Ambitions and frequency (два раза в неделю, etc.)
Local area, holiday and – imperfective future tense
Travel and tourist transactions
travel – use of instrumental (singular noun) case after стать &
работать
School What school is like – nominative plural of regular nouns
– quantity expressions requiring genitive singular & plural
– verbal aspects
– regular adjective endings and ‘soft’ adjectives
Year 10 – Local area, holiday and Travel and tourist transactions – construction for ‘not having’ in present & past: у меня
Spring (2) travel нет/ не было + genitive (singular)
– time – 12-hour clock; 24-hour clock
Identity and culture Daily life
– tenses: past imperfective; past perfective; present;
Who am I? future imperfective; future perfective
Cultural life – age construction for pronouns and nouns (dative case,
singular)
– possessive adjective мой (nominative; common oblique
case usage)
– use of у + genitive (singular) of nouns and pronouns to
convey possession
– use of мне нравится – singular only
– use of хотеться in present tense, past & future
– common reflexive verbs – заниматься, интересоваться,
увлекаться; use of instrumental case (singular nouns)

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 3 Year 10 – Local area, holiday and Travel and tourist transactions – Construction for illness: у меня болит/болят
Summer (1) travel – use of dative (pronouns) to convey feelings and
emotional states in present, past and future
Identity and culture Who am I?
– use of verbal construction ‘in order to’ – чтобы
Future aspirations, study Using languages beyond the – translating ‘must’ - надо, нельзя; нужен/нужна/
and work classroom нужно/нужны
– expressing distances, using genitive case
– possessive наш (nominative only)
– ordinal numerals for storeys
– use of prepositional of ordinals in conjunction with этаж
– cardinal numbers (1-24) and agreement required in
nominative, and other cases for common uses
– adjectives used as nouns (столовая, etc.)
– regular and common irregular nominative plurals
(nouns)
– common prepositions governing genitive and
instrumental (singular nouns)
– revision of regular imperfective future tense (with буду)
Year 10 – Identity and culture Daily life – reflexive verbs, in all persons & tenses
Summer (2) Who am I? – revision of telling the time
Cultural life – non-reflexive and reflexive verbs in present, past and
future, particularly: я занимаюсь; мне нравится
School What school is like

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 Term Theme Sub-theme(s) Grammar
4 Year 11 – Identity and culture Daily life – regular comparative adjectives (-ee ending and чем for
Autumn (1) Who am I? object of comparison); irregular comparative adjectives

Cultural life – use of 'по-' as a prefix to modify comparative to mean

‘slightly (more)’
Local area, holiday and Holidays – object of comparison expressed by use of genitive
travel Travel and tourist transactions – revision of past tense formation
– long form comparative adjectives with более and менее;
irregular long-form comparative adjectives
– common short-form adjectives
– possessive мой in all cases singular and plural
– superlative adjectives (long form)
– genitive after 'нет' with (singular) nouns and adjectives
– accusative endings of (singular) adjectives and nouns
(not including animate)
– cardinal numbers 0-5,000
– agreement of рубль with cardinal numbers (nominative)
– conditional as a vocabulary item only (я заказал/а бы)
Year 11 – Future aspirations, study Using languages beyond the – common prefixed verbs of motion using ходить/ездить &
Autumn (2) and work classroom идти/ехать
Ambitions – use of 24-hour clock at airports, etc.
– prepositional (singular) of ordinal numerals
Local area, holiday and Travel and tourist transactions
travel – use of demonstrative этот/эта/это; эти
– giving precise location using genitive and prepositional
International and global Environmental issues adjective and noun (singular) endings
dimension Bringing the world together – further use of comparative and superlative (long-form)
adjectives
– consolidation of tenses: past imperfective; past
perfective; present; future imperfective; future perfective

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 5 Year 11 – School What school is like – consolidation of structures and vocabulary for
Spring (1) School activities ‘must’/’should’: надо, нельзя; нужен/нужна/нужно/
нужны
Future aspirations, study Using languages beyond the – use of -нибудь and –то
and work classroom – use of друг друга (etc.)

Identity and culture Cultural life – use of всё, что & то, что
– conditional – бы + past tense
– constructions to translate 'on' a date and ‘in’ a year
– relative pronoun который in nominative and accusative
cases only
– possessive cвой
Year 11 – Identity and culture Daily life – inversion with numbers for approximation
Spring (2) Who am I? – first and third person plural (without они) imperatives
– translation of ‘must’ using должен/должна/должны
International and global Environmental issues
dimension – personal pronouns for ‘I/me’ in all cases
– other personal pronouns in nominative, accusative,
dative, genitive, instrumental, prepositional cases
– common examples of сам
– noun and adjective (singular) prepositional endings.
– review of case system and (regular singular) noun and
adjective endings
– use of negative constructions: нет + genitive in present,
past and future; не + verbs; никто, нигде, etc.; ни…,
ни…
– using the conditional and если бы
6 Year 11 Revision
Summer

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