Russian Step By Step Student Book 1: School Edition is the first part of the Russian Step By Step: School Edition course and is geared towards private and group students. The goal of this book is to teach the students to read in Russian and to introduce basic grammar, such as pronunciation rules, gender of the nouns and adjectives, personal, possessive and demonstrative pronouns, verb conjugations, counting 0 - 1000, and the nominative and prepositional cases. The grammar is introduced gradually, the vocabulary is expanded from lesson to lesson and all the four language skills (speaking, grammar, comprehension and writing) are worked on step-by-step. Student Book 1 contains texts, dialogues, exercises with answer keys, translation of the new vocabulary and grammar explanation for each lesson (at the back of the book in English), as well as the audio script to go along with the fee direct download.