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Word Formation: Subject - Specialist - Department
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You can use vocabulary and phrases offered in this topic to talk
about courses you are taking at university/school, your
major/specialty, your faculty/department.
Most Russian words for subjects at university/school and for
student's major are nouns.
Most Russian words for faculties (divisions, departments) are
adjectives.
You will hear three different words in each sound file.
Example: история - историк -
исторический факультет The first word in
line история means history as a subject of study,
the second one историк means historian - specialist in this field,
the third one исторический факультет means
faculty of history.
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Study the list of words below.
Гуманитарные и общественные
науки
- The Humanities (or Arts) and Social Studies
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subject (course) - specialist in this field -
the name of school division (faculty)
Listen and repeat:
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история - историк
- исторический факультет
лингвистика -
лингвист - лингвистический
факультет
музыка - музыкант -
музыкальный факультет
педагогика -
педагог - педагогический
факультет
политология -
политолог - политологический
факультет
психология -
психолог - психологический
факультет
социология -
социолог - социологический
факультет
филология -
филолог - филологический
факультет
философия -
философ - философский
факультет
экология -
эколог - экологический факультет
экономика -
экономист - экономический
факультет
юриспруденция -
юрист- юридический факультет
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history
linguistics
music
pedagogy
political science
psychology
sociology
philology (study
of language and literature)
philosophy
ecology
economics
science of law
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Естественные и точные науки - Natural
and Exact Sciences
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subject (course) - specialist in this field -
the name of school division (faculty)
Listen and repeat:
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биология - биолог
- биологический факультет
геология - геолог
- геологический факультет
математика -
математик - математический
факультет
медицина - медик
- медицинский факультет
физика - физик
- физический факультет
химия - химик
- химический факультет
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biology
geology
mathematics
medicine
physics
chemistry
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Notes
- Suffix -ическ- is usually used to form adjectives from nouns with the meaning of a field of knowledge.
To form most of such adjectives remove the letters -ия (история) or -ика (физика) from the noun and add -ическ-ий to that noun (-ий - masculine adjective ending).
история - исторический факультет
физика - физический факультет
- Exceptions (adjectives formed with the suffix -ск- instead
of expected -ическ-):
медицина - медицинский
философия - философский
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Note two different sentence structures to say what courses you are
taking and where (in what faculty/department) you study. Listen and
repeat:
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1. Я изучаю историю.
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I study history (I'm taking history).
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2. Я учусь на
историческом факультете.
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I am (I study) in the history department.
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Reading and writing: I study...
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1. Use the texts below as the
model for you own story. Read these texts aloud at least three times.
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А. Здравствуйте! Меня зовут
Аня. Я живу в Москве и учусь в
университете на педагогическом
факультете. Я изучаю педагогику,
психологию, историю, английский язык и
русскую литературу.
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Б. Здравстуйте! Меня зовут
Игорь. Я живу в Санут-Петербурге и
учусь в университете на медицинском
факультете. Я изучаю медицину,
математику, химию, биологию, *а также
экономику и латинский язык. *
а также - and also
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2. Make up your own story. Tell what is your name, where you
live and study, what courses you are taking.
3. Write down your story on paper or type it on your computer, then
read it aloud at least three times.
4. Keep your story for future reference.
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Speaking: I study...
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Memorize your story and retell it without looking at the paper or
computer.
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