Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A tribute to Terence Wade
- Introduction
- Unit 1 Towns and buildings. The household. Gardens
- Unit 2 The physical world
- Unit 3 The human body and health
- Unit 4 Appearance and movement
- Unit 5 Personality and human behaviour
- Unit 6 Clothes, footwear, and accessories. Food and drink
- Unit 7 Perception
- Unit 8 Shapes and patterns. Size and quantity. Containers
- Unit 9 Visual and performing arts
- Unit 10 Literature and literary criticism. Speaking, reading, and writing
- Unit 11 Leisure
- Unit 12 Tourism, travel, and transport
- Unit 13 Family, birth, death, and marriage
- Unit 14 Education
- Unit 15 Agriculture. Industry
- Unit 16 Business and commerce
- Unit 17 The office and computing. Post and telecommunications
- Unit 18 Law and finance
- Key to exercises
A tribute to Terence Wade
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A tribute to Terence Wade
- Introduction
- Unit 1 Towns and buildings. The household. Gardens
- Unit 2 The physical world
- Unit 3 The human body and health
- Unit 4 Appearance and movement
- Unit 5 Personality and human behaviour
- Unit 6 Clothes, footwear, and accessories. Food and drink
- Unit 7 Perception
- Unit 8 Shapes and patterns. Size and quantity. Containers
- Unit 9 Visual and performing arts
- Unit 10 Literature and literary criticism. Speaking, reading, and writing
- Unit 11 Leisure
- Unit 12 Tourism, travel, and transport
- Unit 13 Family, birth, death, and marriage
- Unit 14 Education
- Unit 15 Agriculture. Industry
- Unit 16 Business and commerce
- Unit 17 The office and computing. Post and telecommunications
- Unit 18 Law and finance
- Key to exercises
Summary
Terence Wade, the author of this book, died on 22 November 2005. He is sadly missed by colleagues and family alike. Throughout his academic career, Terence's great gift and also his passion was to teach the Russian language to students. His intense love of the language drove him to promote Russian language and cultural studies in Britain and internationally. As a young graduate he trained interpreters at the Joint Services School for Linguists. This grounding led to a long and successful career at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, during which he was made Professor of Russian and Chairman of the Department of Modern Languages. Terence was respected by Slavonic Studies Departments all over Britain as an external examiner and research assessor, and was also involved in and became chairman of the Scottish Institute of Linguists.
An enthusiastic member of the ATR, Association of Teachers of Russian (later ALL, Association of Language Learning), he first served as editor of the Journal of Russian Studies, and then Chairman of the ATR in 1986–89 and finally President in 1989–90. For many years Terence represented Great Britain on the presidium of MAPRYAL (the International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature) and received the accolade of the Pushkin medal for his services to Russian teaching presented by the Russian government.
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- Using Russian Vocabulary , pp. viii - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009