ABSTRACT
In this chapter, you will: read social media group discussions on friends and friendship, write posts and comments; watch the results of a video poll on best friends; talk about your friends: time spent together, your common interests, likes and dislikes, topics you usually discuss; learn to describe your friends’ appearance and personality traits; learn to ask questions about others’ appearance and personality traits; create a video blog post about your best friend.
Grammar content: Review of first- and second-conjugation verbs; connectors for adding information; some basics of Russian word order.
Cultural notes: Referring to a person in their presence; using shortened and diminutive first name forms.
