This unit on “Tense and Aspect in Narratives” by Victoria Hasko (University of Georgia) is part of a series of materials for intermediate and advanced learners of Russian developed by CALPER. The series focuses on areas of Russian language knowledge central to developing narrative proficiency, i.e. the ability to tell stories. An introduction to developing narrative proficiency has been published as “Advancing in Russian Through Narration” by Aneta Pavleno and Victoria Driagina (CALPER Publications, 2008).

Also available in this series are:

Motion Verbs in Narratives
High Frequency Vocabulary – Emotion