1. Phonetics and intonation
Practice in intonation and vocal pitch.

2. Intermediate morphosyntaxis
The morphosyntax program includes:
- Word order and punctuation;
- Nouns, adjectives and adverbs formed by prefixation / suffixation;
- Syntactic analysis of the adjective (short form, degree of comparison, relationship adjectives);
- Undefined pronouns;
- Numerals (declination and use);
- Gerund;
- Impersonal modal propositions expressing possibilities, impossibility, necessity, prohibition, risk, recommendation;
- Verbs of motion with all prefixes;
- Practice in the use of the verbal aspect (infinitive, imperative, with modals);
- Conjugation of verbs of all classes;
- Participles;
- Elements of syntax of the complex period: relative, temporal, concessive, conditional and causal subordinates (limited to the constructs necessary for the explicitation of participles and gerunds).
- Indirect speech;
- Prepositional constructs;
- Slovoobrazovanie (word formation).

3. Translation RU-IT-RU
Translation activities to and from Russian language are aimed at testing the acquisition of the morphosyntactic contents introduced.

4. Comprehension and production of written texts
Students will have to read, translate and memorize the vocabulary of varied and intermediate level texts. It is planned to assign one text per week for reading at home. In the classroom the text will be discussed through specific questions and activities designed to test its comprehension.

5. Comprehension and production of oral texts
Students will improve the comprehension of the oral text through dictation and listening exercises.

6. Word formation (slovoobrazovanie) and lexical enrichment.
A part of the hours of frontal teaching will be used in the study of the methods of words formation in Russian (prefixation, suffixation, combination of roots, etc.), as a useful tool for the autonomous understanding of unfamiliar words.