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RU 0585S

RUSSIAN

Proficiency Improvement Course

LISTENING
VOLUME 2

Workbooks 2-5
Units 6 - 25

DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE, FOREIGN LANGUAGE CENTER
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POLISH
Proficiency Improvement Course

LISTENING WORKBOOK

Volume 2

Units 6 - 25

1989
Reconfigured 1995

DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE
FOREIGN LANGUAGE CENTER

Listening Workbook 2, Subcourse Overview

RUSSIAN PROFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT COURSE

Suboourse Number DLi202
Edition A
Oetense Language Institute, Foreign Language Center
Presidio of Monterey, California 93944-5006

10 Credit Hours
Edition Date: September 1990

Subcourse Overview

This is the second in a series of 10 Russian workbooks written for
linguists serving in the United States armed forces.

Workbook 2 is at proficiency level 1+. It contains toxts ranging
from weather reports to military clubs. These texts have been taken
from the Soviet media.

This is the first workbook at level 1. You will find that the
activities in this book continue building on the basic listening
strategies of skimming for main ideas and scanning for specific
information. You will also find in this book exercises: requiring
listening strategies such as

+ listening for numerical and geographical
information in a text,

+ predicting the contents of a text,

+ listening for clues to meaning in the
grammatical construction of a text,

= listening for clues to meaning in the
format of a text,

+ identifying sequencing patterns in a text.
Listening Workbook 2

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Listening Workbook 2

Table of Contents
Section

Subcourse Overview

Administrative Instructions

Grading and Certification instructions

unit 6 Weather Reports
Exercises 1-10
Kay Vocabulary

Unit 7 Maneuvers
Exercises 1-10
Key Vocabulary
Acronyms and Abbreviations

unit 8 Official visits
Exercises 1-10
Key Vocabulary
Acronyms and’ Abbreviations

unit 9 Military Schools
Exercises 1-10
Key Vocabulary
Acronyms and Abbreviations.

unk 10 Military Clubs
Exercises 1-10
Key Vocabutary

Speaking Suggestions
Answer Keys
Dictionary

Glossary

Workbook Test
Listening Workbaok 2

Administrative Instructions
4. Number of units in this subcourse: Five.

2. Materials needed in addition to this booklet are a #2 pencil, an
ACCP Examination Response Sheet and a preadd:essed envelope.

3. Supervisory requirements: None.

Grading and Certification Instructions

Examination:

This subcourse contains a -nultip's-choice examination covering the
material contained in these units. After studying the units and
working through the exercises, completa the examination. Mark your
answers in the subcourse booklet; then transfer them to the ACCP
Examination Response Sheet. Completely black out the lattered oval
which corresponds to your selection (A, B, C, or D). Use a #2 toad
pencil to mark your responses. When you have completed the
Examination Response Sheet, mait it in the preaddrossed envelope
provided. Your examination score wil be returned to you. A score of
75 or avove is passing. Ten credit hours will be awarded for
successful completion of this examination.

This publication is to be used primarily in support of training
military personne! as part of the Defense | anguage Nonresident
Program. Topics in the areas of polifcs, inferational relations,
mares, et¢., which may be considered controversial from some
points of view are sometimes included in language training for
DLIFLC students, since miliary personnel may find themselves. in
Positions where olear understanding of conversations or written
materiat of this nalure will be essential to their mission. The
Presence of controversial statements—whether real or apparent—in
DLIFLC materials shoutd nat be construed as representing the
opinions of the writers, the Defense Language Institute or the
Department of Defense.

In DLI publications, the wards “he,” "him," and “his” danate both
masculine and femininc genders. This statement coes not apply to
transfations of foreign texts.

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Listeriing Workbook 2, Unit 6

Unit 6—Weather Reports

Weather reports are broadcast everywhere around the world. As you
probably listen to weather reports da ly, you are familiar with their
content. The understanding of a weather report is indispensible
when planning any military activity. To understand weather
broadcasts in Russian, you will have to leain the vocabulary
associated with these texts. This vocabulary will include words
such as precipitation, wind, rain, snow, etc. In addition, you will
need to be able to understand numbers and locations. In the Soviet
Union temperatures are measured according to the Centigrade
system instead of the Fahrenheit system. Orce you have become
accustomed to the format of Soviet weather reports, they will be
‘easy to listen to. The weather report on Soviat television comes at
the end of the news program,

Exercise 1 Numbers in Russian take different endings.
Therefore, when you hear temperatures in weather
reports, the numbers are samatimes in the genitive
case. This exercise will prepare you to listen to
temperatures in Soviet weather forecasts. Match
the Russian on the loft with the corresponding
umbers on the right by writing the carrect letter
in the space provided.

oT Hyns ao naTh a. 6°-8°
oT oaMere Ao YeTeipex ib. 2°=3*
oT aeyx ao Tpex c. 0°-5°
oT wect ao sochmn 4. 79-9"
oT cewn go aeesTH e142

The prepositions oT and ao are frequently used in weather
forecasts. However, often the announcer will mention the numbers
without including the prepositions, For instance you may hear oT
ys Ao Tpex or you may hear Hyrib-Tpi.

You can see on the following page how the Centrigrade system
compares to Fahrenheit
Listening Workbook 2, Unit &

Figure 6.1

Cangradie 10. ©)

Conversion: Temperature Fahrannett = 95
Temperature Contgrase 572