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a) Dialogues

A tourist is looking for a grey suit. He is asking the shop assistant for help. The shop assistant finds a good suit and the tourist tries it on. The suit fits well, and its price is rather good - they sell it with a discount. The tourist is going to take it.

A tourist looks for post cards with views of the town. The shop assistant finds and shows some post cards to the tourist. The tourists also liked a souvenir. He decided to take this souvenir and 10 post cards.

b) Listen and repeat the dialogues phrase by phrase.

c) Listen to the phrases in Russian and choose right translation.

II. I'm looking for a grey suit.

a) Learn the following Russian words:

b) Read the Russian words and choose the right translation from the list:

c) In previous lessons you have learned the following expressions in Russian:

Using these expressions, translate into Russian and check yourself:

III. Have you got post cards?

a) Learn the Russian words:

b) Recall the words мой (my) and Ваш (your) and that depending on the grammatical gender and the number of the following noun these words may change.

- "мой" [moy] and "Ваш" [vash] for masculine
- "моя" [maya] and "Ваша" [vasha] for faminine
- "моё" [mayo] and "Ваше" [vashe] for neuter
- "мои" [mai] and "Ваши" [vashi] for plural

Look at the examples with these words:

c) Give a positive answer to the questions:

IV. I'm looking for a grey suit.

In the dialogue above you have seen the following construction:

The expression "мне нужен" which may mean "I need (something)" or "I'm looking for" (something) changes depending on the grammatical gender and the number of the following noun as follows:

- "мне нужен" [mnye noojin] for masculine
- "мне нужна" [mnye noojna] for faminine
- "мне нужно" [mnye noojna] for neuter
- "мне нужны" [mnye noojni] for plural

We remind that most Russian nouns finish in masculine with a consonant, in feminine with "-a", and in neuter with "о" or "е". In plural, most nouns finish with "-и" or "-ы".

a) Look, listen and reapeat the examples:

b) Choose нужен, нужна, нужно or нужны in the following phrases:

c) Translate into Russian and check yourself:

V. Could you show me this souvenir?

You have already seen in our course the word "этот" (this). Depending on the grammatical gender and the number of the following noun, this word will change as follows:

- "этот" [etat] for masculine
- "эта" [eta] for faminine
- "это" [eta] for neuter
- "эти" [eti] for plural

a) Give a positive answer following the model to the questions:

Model:

Questions

VI. I like it!

In the dialogue above you have seen the following construction:

If you like something, you can say that using the expression:

If you want to say that you like several objects, you can say that using the expression:

a) Give a positive answer following the model to the questions:

b) Give a negative answer following the model to the questions:

c) Translate into Russian following the model and check yourself:

VIII. Numerals

a) Learn the following numerals in Russian:

Look at the following examples:

b) Listen to the Russian numeral and write it (with figures 1, 2, 3 etc.) in the text area:

In this lesson you have learnt:

- Words and expressions on the topic "Purchases".

- An expression, with the help of which you can say that you need something or you are looking for something:

• Мне нужен костюм.

- Forms of the pronoun "этот":

• Мне нужен этот костюм.
• Мне нужна эта открытка.

- An expression that will help you to say that you like something:

• Мне нравится эта футболка.
• Мне нравятся эти игрушки.

- Numerals over 1000.

In order to make sure you have understood all the material of the lesson and to get some additional information, we recommend you to visit the following pages:

• Pages of Shopping section:
  - Outdoor clothing
  - Shoes
  - Perfumery
  - Accessories and others
• Numerals more than 100