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GCSE/A2 RUSSIAN: Celebrations & Holidays exam style tasks practice + text
This 5-page pdf is dedicated to the topic Holidays, Festivals, Celebrations of a broader Topic 1 of Russian GCSE Identity and Culture. The file is also appropriate for anyone learning Russian at A2 level and looking to expand and practise vocabulary on the above topics.
The file contains:
*3 exam- style picture-based cards with questions for discussion.
Two role play cards on the topic of celebrations/festivals
Text “День матери в России” and comprehension questions
Moscow vs St-Petersburg: career prospects, environment, transport, culture. A-level B1/B2 level
This 12-page resource is developed to reflect a topic of life in modern Russian cities and can be used when discussing Theme 3 ‘Изменения в жизни большого города’ of Edexcel A-level Russian.
The resource is focused on a comparative analysis of Moscow and St-Petersburg. The aspects covered include:
Brief overview of life in both cities
Climate
Ecological situation
Transport
Work opportunities
Accomodation and the cost of living
Cultural life
The text speaks about the changes that both Moscow and St-Petersburg have been undergoing recently and how these changes affect the citiens’ lives.
The resource contains 7 comprehension and vocabulary exercises (comprehension questions, true or false, multiple choice, fill in the missing word, fill in the correct preposition, make up phrases, find Russian equivalents in the text).
Answers are provided.
Russian GCSE practice: LISTENING test paper - b
Russian GCSE listening practice (Edexcel examboards).
The test is created to reflect Edexcel exam paper and contains 14 exam style listening questions (multiple choice, choosing correct answers, filling in the gaps from the word lists provided, answering questions in English and Russian).
The following topics are included:
Leisure
Festivals
Holidays, tourist information and directions
Services
School life & routine
School rules and pressures
Work, careers and volunteering / future plans
House & Home
Daily routines
Relationships with family and friends
Environmental issues
Travel and transport
Places in town
Information and communication technology
Hobbies, interests, sports and exercise
**Answers and transcripts are provided on separate pages **
Russian GCSE practice: READING exam test paper (b)
GCSE reading practice (Edexcel exam board).
Please, note, this is not an EDEXCEL past paper. This is an original resource created to eeflect the exam specification and the tasks in an exam paper.
The test contains 10 exam style reading questions (multiple choice, choosing correct answers, answering questions in English and Russian) and a paragraph for translation into English…
The following topics are included:
Food and drink: restaurants, fast food preferences
Holidays, hotels, issues
Services
School life & routine
School rules and pressures
Work, careers and volunteering / future plans
Daily routines
Celebrations, traditions
Relationships with family and friends
Environmental issues
Travel and transport
Hobbies, interests, sports and exercise
Answers are provided on a separate page to enable independent work
Russian GCSE: READING exam-style practice test paper
GCSE reading practice (Edexcel exam board).
The test is created to reflect Edexcel exam paper and contains 10 exam style reading questions (multiple choice, choosing correct answers, answering questions in English and Russian) and a paragraph for translation into English…
The following topics are included:
Food and drink: restaurants, fast food preferences
Holidays, hotels, issues
Services
School life & routine
School rules and pressures
Work, careers and volunteering / future plans
Daily routines
Celebrations, traditions
Relationships with family and friends
Environmental issues
Travel and transport
Hobbies, interests, sports and exercise
Answers and transcripts are provided on a separate page to enable independent work
Please, note that it is not a past Edexcel paper, but an original resource created to Edexcel standards and with the specification in mind.
Russian GCSE practice: LISTENING test paper
GCSE listening practice (Edexcel examboards).
The test is created to reflect Edexcel exam paper and contains 14 exam style listening questions (multiple choice, choosing correct answers, filling in the gaps from the word lists provided, answering questions in English and Russian).
The following topics are included:
Food and drink: restaurants, fast food preferences
Life in the town and rural life
Holidays, tourist information and directions
Services
School life & routine
School rules and pressures
Work, careers and volunteering / future plans
House & Home
Daily routines
Celebrations, birthdays
Relationships with family and friends
Environmental issues
Travel and transport
Media – TV and film
Information and communication technology
Hobbies, interests, sports and exercise
**Answers and transcripts are provided on separate pages **
Russian Grammar: Adverbial Participles in context of A-level theme 'Moscow&St. Petersburg'
This worksheet is aimed at practicing forming and using past and present forms of adverbial participles (деепричастия) in the context of Russian A-level theme ‘Москва и Санкт-Петербург. Изменения в жизни большого города’.
The verbs used and the sentences are all on the subject of Moscow and St Petersburg: social problems, reconstruction, environmental problems
The worksheet contains 6 exercises (Participles/verb formation, transforming sentences using simple and compound conjunctions, completing sentence, choosing the right form, translation).
4 pages of exercises .
A separate answer sheet to enable independent work.
GCSE Russian - General Conversation questions & model answers
GCSE Russian general conversation questions, with two sets of model answers, for each of the 5 Edexcel themes (all subtopics within each theme are covered).
Alternative models answers are written in a humorous way with a view to evoke an emotive response and hopefully have some fun whilst learning the essentials.
Students can adapt the model answers to write their own individualised answers as part of their preparation for the GCSE speaking exam.
38 pages.
Russian: films, hobbies. Level B1+
This 3-page worksheet (plus separate page with answers) is inspired by a review of a recent Netflix documentary Skywalker about a Russian couple who made their name as extreme skywalkers!
The text can be used to work on such topics as films, hobbies and modern Russian society (one of Russian Edexcel A-level themes) and helps expand the vocabulary, specifically descriptive adjectives and verbs as well as some set expressions.
The text is followed by four vocabulary exercises (word search, true/false, synonyms match, Eng-Rus verbs match) and a set of general questions for discussion.
Russian pronouns drills (A1-GCSE level)
This 12-page resource was created with Russian GCSE specification in mind.
The exercises were created to practise use of personal pronouns in all cases and cover key case meanings (e.g. У меня есть, Dative + можно, нельзя, age, Accusative with verbs of motion, Prepositional with location and O, etc.)
The sentences contain vocabulary related to the GCSE themes (daily life, travelling and tourism, school, environment).
They can also be used as a starting point for speaking practise (students could be asked to make up similar sentences related to their school, hotel bookings, family, etc).
A separate exercise to practise gender forms of the pronoun ВЕСЬ.
A separate exercise to practise Prespositional adjectives endings along with pronouns.
Russian: travel, holidays, hotel vocabulary & Genitive case (GCSE level)
This 9 page pdf is suitable for beginners and GCSE learners (holidays, travel, tourist transactions subtopics) and provides handy words and phrases to talk about travel and holidays, types of holidays, hotel facilities and leisure activities, dealing with bookings and problems.
Practise Genitive case (in particular plural endings) in the context of sightseeing, tourism, attractions with a table of endings and grammar exercises.
A variety of activities includes: * match the pairs * fill in the gaps * multiple choice * prompts to enable talking on a theme * arrange the sentences in the correct order and re-enact dialogues *Word search * Read holidays adverts, choose the best holiday offer * Reading comprehension * Listening comprehension (recording is provided).
A separate sheet with answers to enable independent work.
Russian: summer and holidays vocabulary
This 9 page pdf provides handy words and phrases to talk about summer holidays, summer and leisure activities, items your need in your holiday luggage.
A variety of activities from multiple choice, word search, spin the wheel to practising verb endings ensures you’re not bored whilst learning and practising new words and phrases!
Suitable for beginners and GCSE learners (holidays, travel, weather subtopics)
Неделя как неделя: book review& comprehension exercises, case revision with key sentences and quote
This worksheet was designed to combine a quick cases drill (adjectives, pronouns and nouns in all cases) using the sentences related to the novel.
All sentences are taken from the novel with the view of helping students memorise some of them and use them in an essay on one of the key themes or characters.
The worksheet also contains a personal review of the book by a modern day working mother. The review text can be used to develop a further discussion on the subject of family values, work vs family, role of women in modern day Russia. The text is followed by 4 comprehension and vocabulary exercises.
9 pages plus answers to all the exercises
Queen of Spades: noun & adjectives cases revision with key sentences and quotes
This worksheet was designed to combine a quick cases drill (adjectives and nouns in all cases) using the sentences related to the novel.
The sentences were written in such a way so that they could be used in an essay on one of the key themes or characters. Some sentences also include quotes from the text.
There is a also a separate exercise to put the quotes from the novel in a chronological order. Each quote could be used to practise a PEEL structure and as a stimulus for refreshing the knowledge of the content of the novel (e.g. remember the scene the quote was used in).
Answers to the cases exercises are included.
7 pages plus answers.
A-level Russian: ПЕРЕСТРОЙКА: исходы и мнения. Texts and exercises
This 7-page worksheet is designed to help with revising the topic and work on essential vocabulary. The texts are selected with a view to refresh the key ideas of perestroika and the issues with the policy implementation and its outcomes.
The exercises include:
-fill in the gaps
-word search translation activity
comprehension questions
-matching the cause to effect
The texts can be used to replicate exam-style listening questions.
Russian A-level: "Один день Ивана Денисовича" quotes bank, themes, stylistic analysis,character desc
A 16-page resource to help prepare for A-level Russian written exam.
The resource contains character description with an extensive quotes bank to back up the description and to help with analysis of the main and secondary characters. Character description includes: background, character, appearance, their relationship with other characters.
The worksheet also includes:
*historical context and the history of the Nobel’s creation;
*stylistic analysis
*analysis of:
-life at the labour camp
-description of the concept of time in the novel
*possible exam -style essay questions
Russian A-level: "Ревизор" quotes bank, themes, character description and characteristics
A 27-page resource to help prepare for A-level Russian written exam.
The resource contains:
*possible essay questions,
*character description with an extensive quotes bank to back up the description and to help with analysis of the 3 main characters - Khlestakov, the mayor, and judge.
Character description includes:
-background,
-character,
-appearance,
-their relationship with other characters.
*A separate analysis and quotes on the town of N and collective image of the local authorities (чиновники).
Bundle
A-level Russian: 4 themes revision sentences for translation
This bundle covers all 4 themes studied at A-level.
This worksheet contains a wide varietyof sentences for translation (Eng-Rus/ Rus-Eng) to help practise essential vocabulary and memorise key facts, numbers and ideas on the themes required for A-level specification.
A total of 124 complex and compound sentences in English and their translation into Russian.
The 4 themes and subthemes covered are:
Развитие российского общества
-жизнь российской молодёжи
-мир труда
-образование
Москва и С.-Петербург
-общественные проблемы
-реконструкция
-окружающая среда
Политическая и художественная культура в русскоязычном мире
-цирк, музыка
-СМИ, соцсети
4.Последние Годы СССР1985-1991:
-ситуация в СССР к 1985г.
-перестройка
-гласность
-позитивные исходы перестройки
-путч
All sentences contain essential vocabulary required at A-level. Each sentence is developed using essential constructions. We included a variety of syntax structures, coordinating/subordinate common and compound conjunctions, different verbal forms to reflect the exam standard requirements. Many sentences contains a phrase to express an opinion, argument, make a conclusion and/or engage in a dialogue (e.g. I suppose, as far as I know, what do you think).
Answers are provided to English sentences. However, the exercise can be done in reverse - using Russian answers to be translated into English.
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Russian A-level: translation pack Последние годы СССР
13 pages of translation exercises to practise essential vocabulary and memorise key facts, numbers and ideas on the themes required for A-level specification.
A total of 41 complex and compound sentences in English and their translation into Russian.
The sentences cover subtopics of the topic Последние Годы СССР1985-1991:
ситуация в СССР к 1985г.
перестройка
гласность
позитивные исходы перестройки
-путч
All sentences contain essential vocabulary required at A-level. Each sentence is developed using essential constructions. We included a variety of syntax structures, coordinating/subordinate common and compound conjunctions, different verbal forms to reflect the exam standard requirements. Many sentences contains a phrase to express an opinion, argument, make a conclusion and/or engage in a dialogue (e.g. I suppose, as far as I know, what do you think).
Answers are provided to English sentences. However, the exercise can be done in reverse - using Russian answers to be translated into English.
Russian A-level: 2.2. Музыка - оркестры (политическая и художественная культура)
This resource was developed as a complimentary material towards subtopic 2.2 - музыка, цирк, балет - of A-level Edexcel Russian Specification.
It discusses the state of classical music in modern Russia and specifically covers orchestras. Students will learn about the most famous orchestras, the names of their directors and conductors, classical music festivals and will practise essential vocabulary and answer comprehension questions to ensure understanding and practise speaking on the topic.
5 pages of text and 4 exercises for each chapter of the text.
The worksheet is developed in line with Edexcel A-level Russian specification but is appropriate for anyone learning Russian at B1-B2 level.