A fragment from the book "Детство Никиты"  (Nikita's Childhood) by Alexey Tolstoy with parallel Russian-English  translation.

A fragment from the book "Детство Никиты"  by Alexey Tolstoy with parallel Russian-Italian translation in collaboration with  https://www.ispeakitaliano.it/blog/

A fragment from the book "Снег идёт" 1949 by Lyubov Voronkova, adapted for A2-B1 level with vocabulary* and even sounds that illustrate words like трещать, звонить, скрипеть, вздыхать. A story about how a family celebrated  New Year in the village.

New Year's tree decorating and waiting for the New Year is a great occasion to practice the words ставить, класть, вешать, висеть, ложиться, лечь, etc.

С Рождеством и Новым годом, любители русского языка!

Часть 2. Part 2.

A story written by the best Soviet children's writer Arkady Gaidar. Adapted for B2-C1 level.

The podcast with vocabulary. The vocabulary contains words that are not included in the minimum vocabulary of level B2.

Book a lesson at http://italki.com/yulia.stepanova to check your listening comprehension,

One day little Svetlana and her father took offense at her mother and went wherever they wanted… A kind lyrical story tells how much they saw during this long day and how wonderfully it ended. This story is about how the family should not hold grudges against each other and should be able to forgive.

I love Gaidar's works, his ironic language, lyricism and subtle understanding of the human soul.

During the lesson, we will work on vocabulary,  on verbs of movement with prefixes,  НСВ  and СВ  verbs.

A story written by the best Soviet children's writer Arkady Gaidar. Adapted for B1-B2 level.

The podcast with vocabulary. The vocabulary contains words that are not included in the minimum vocabulary of level B1.

Book a lesson at http://italki.com/yulia.stepanova to check your listening comprehension, 

One day little Svetlana and her father took offense at her mother and went wherever they wanted… A kind lyrical story tells how much they saw during this long day and how wonderfully it ended. This story is about how the family should not hold grudges against each other and should be able to forgive.

I love Gaidar's works, his ironic language, lyricism and subtle understanding of the human soul.

During the lesson, we will work on vocabulary,  verbs of movement with prefixes, and also we will analyze using of  НСВ  and СВ  verbs. For example, why here "Мы не разбивали голубой чашки" is an imperfect aspect, and here "Это мыши разбили голубую чашку!" - perfect aspect.

Book a lesson at http://italki.com/yulia.stepanova to check your listening comprehension, to speak about an adventure of an American in Soviet Union. Fans of history will find in the lesson Stalin, Roosevelt, and art lost to the Russians but saved by Marjorie Post and her husband, the American Ambassador in the USSR, Joseph Davis. Using Google Maps, we will walk around Hillwood Museum, where we will look for Faberge eggs and the wedding crown of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.

We will practice the active participles of the present and past tense, prepositions, and also translate into Russian short notes from the newspaper from 1945 etc.

In the end, use funny caricatures of an artist A.Tsap to retell this entire story.

Book a lesson at http://italki.com/yulia.stepanova to check your listening comprehension, to speak about an adventure of an American in Soviet Union. Fans of history will find in the lesson Stalin, Roosevelt, and art lost to the Russians but saved by Marjorie Post and her husband, the American Ambassador in the USSR, Joseph Davis. Using Google Maps, we will walk around Hillwood Museum, where we will look for Faberge eggs and the wedding crown of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.

We will practice the suffixes -ательный, -ительный, prepositions, который, vocabulary of the lesson and also translate into Russian short notes from the newspaper from 1945 etc.

In the end, use funny caricatures of an artist A.Tsap to retell this entire story.

Try to listen to the end and don't laugh! Four short interviews, one of them with Vladimir Putin.

Check your listening comprehension and learn even more by booking a lesson with me on Italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanova , a course "Russian language: Real Breakthrough".