Vocabulary

Ideas rather than things - many of them deverbal and deadjectival nouns of the kind the lesson on word formation teaches you to recognize and build.

Beyond the everyday job vocabulary of B1: the market, the money and the strategy a business itself runs on.

The vocabulary of building and renovating: the site, the materials, the people doing the work.

News, elections and public life - beyond the offices and paperwork of the B1 list on government and administration, this is the vocabulary of following and discussing them.

The vocabulary an actual disagreement runs on: a position, a claim, the proof behind it, the proposal that follows and the compromise that ends it - plus the words for the social problems people actually argue about, poverty, inequality, prejudice, unemployment. Exactly where the lesson on word order and information structure does its work: a fronted claim, a postponed new subject, a comma-set-off topic picked up by a resumptive pronoun all decide what a listener hears as new.

The vocabulary of telling the past: events, rulers, wars and legends, and the verbs of remembering and forgetting - exactly the terrain where the literary past tenses from the lesson on the aorist and imperfect do their real work, in the register of a story rather than a report.

The vocabulary of research and statistics - a study, its hypothesis, its sample, its results - carried by exactly the numerals the lesson on the declension of numerals teaches: два научника, две хипотезе, пет истраживача, the count-form/invariant split running through almost every example below.

The vocabulary of a contract read closely: clauses and provisions, courts and verdicts, the difference between lawful and unlawful - exactly the terrain where this unit's grammar - чији, prepositional relatives and the formal concessive connectors - does its real work.

The vocabulary of a formal letter, application or complaint: requests, notices, signatures and deadlines, plus the adjectives and verbs that separate an official register from a casual one - exactly where the lesson on register and style draws the line between Ви and ти.

The vocabulary of a gallery visit and an art review: paintings, exhibitions, critics and style, plus the verbs that make and judge a work. Its masculine nouns - рам, детаљ, стил, роман - are where the grammar lesson's line between нов and нови shows; with a feminine noun like слика the two forms are spelled the same.