Russian Language: Real Breakthrough

Russian Language: Real Breakthrough

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Russian Language: Real Breakthrough episodes

  • B1. Clown And His Cats

    His shows are sold out weeks ahead, with about 300 people packing into the hall twice a day every weekend. “Once I found a hungry little kitten, and he became my first stage partner. He sat inside a giant toffee, and whenever I unwrapped it, he’d jump out and stride boldly around the stage with his tail held high. And he could do somersaults and jump through a hoop and walk on his hind legs and meow very loudly whenever he was hungry,” Kuklachev said. Listen to the story of the world's kindest clown who performs with cats. More than two hundred saved cat lives, more than two hundred cat artists, home for retired cats... Check your listening comprehension and learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on Italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanova  

    Grammar:

    • Another way to say "one's (my, your, his etc.) ко мне на кровать instead of на мою кровать and у меня на кровати instead of на моей кровати
      • Idioms with cats (кот наплакал = very few etc.)
    • Verbs of motion with prefixes.
      • and many other grammar exercises.
    • After we train all vocabulary and grammar of the lesson, let's play a journalist and take an interview of Kuklachov. Use funny pictures to retell this entire story.
      • 13 min
    • B2-C1. Clown and his cats.

      His shows are sold out weeks ahead, with about 300 people packing into the hall twice a day every weekend.

      “Once I found a hungry little kitten, and he became my first stage partner. He sat inside a giant toffee, and whenever I unwrapped it, he’d jump out and stride boldly around the stage with his tail held high. And he could do somersaults and jump through a hoop and walk on his hind legs and meow very loudly whenever he was hungry,” Kuklachev said.
      Listen to the story of the world's kindest clown who performs with cats. More than two hundred saved cat lives, more than two hundred cat artists, home for retired cats...
      Check your listening comprehension and learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on Italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanova
      Grammar: 

      Short adjectives and participles,

      Verbs of motion with prefixes, etc

      After we train all vocabulary and grammar of the lesson, let's play a journalist and take an interview of Kuklachov.

      Use funny pictures to retell this entire story.

      13 min
    • B2-C1. Richard Sorge: Soviet Master Spy

      Audio file of a lesson for a course "Russian Language: Real Breakthrough" for a B2-C1 Level. Check your listening comprehension and learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on Italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanova

      • • Find out about a love story of a Japanese girl Hanako Ishii and Richard Sorge, a German journalist and Soviet military intelligence officer who was active before and during World War II and worked undercover as a German journalist in both Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan.
      • • If you like to discuss politics, we will speak about spying, stereotypes that we have when talking about spies etc. Try to compare Richard Sorge to James Bond. 
      • • You will remember new vocabulary with Quizlet Flash Cards, that I already prepared for you. We will use the new words many times during our conversation, so it can be easier for you to remember them. We can learn even more by doing extra exercises too.
      • • You will become more confident in using Russian to describe and speak on your own unassisted and will learn to tell this story using drawings to help you along.
      • • Grammar:  Prepositions, Past Passive Participles. 
        • 15 min
      • B2-C1. Park "Fili" in Moscow

        Listen to a story about Park Fili in Moscow, a park that is connected to names of Peter the Great,  Elisabeth II, Kutuzov and Russian painters and writers like Repin, Turgenev, Tolstoy and others.

        Now it is one of the best parks in Moscow where you can walk, do sports, climb in Panda Park and many other things. 

        Book a lesson at http://italki.com/yulia.stepanova to check your listening comprehension, to speak about your favourite parks and train new vocabulary and grammar.

        Use funny caricatures of an artist A.Tsap to retell this entire story.

        10 min
      • B2-C1. Alexandre Maltsev. The First Russian Male Synchronised Swimmer.

        Audio file of a lesson for a course "Russian Language: Real Breakthrough" for a B2-C1 Level. Check your listening comprehension and learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on Italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanova

        Synchronised swimming is a sport in which Russia has a dominant place. Russian girls win almost all competitions thanks to their perfect synchronyzation, beauty and difficult tricks. But what about men? Until a few years ago this was a sport only for women. 

        • I am presenting an interesting topic to discuss  stereotypes in sports. 
        • You will  enlarge your vocabulary about sports with some morphology making nouns from adjectives with suffixes -ость (гибкость, выносливость, женственность, гибкость etc. 
        • You will train the Past Passive Participles (завоёванная медаль, пропущенный гол, заслуженная награда etc.) 
        • You will learn some idioms with the Past Passive Participles and you will do many other interesting speaking, listening and writing exercises that will help you remember the new vocabulary and grammar.
          • 10 min
        • B2-C1. Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.

          Audio file of a lesson for a course "Russian Language: Real Breakthrough" for a B2-C1 Level. Check your listening comprehension and learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on Italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanova

          Andrei Mironov is a great soviet actor. This lesson is based on his humorous stand-up show.

          • In this lesson we will discuss all the different things you’ve learned in the past (perhaps, chess, skating, music, languages etc.). What is your opinion on forcing children to study things they do not like?
          • I will show you how to form adjectives with suffix -тельный (занимательный, оглушительный etc.),
          • You will review verbs учить, учиться, изучать and even обучать etc.
          • We will examine some Russian paintings and Soviet posters, play with proverbs about learning and we will practice new words through numerous fun exercises.
            • 7 min
          • B1. Alexandre Maltsev. The First Russian Male Synchronised Swimmer.
            • Audio file of a lesson for a course "Russian Language: Real Breakthrough" for a B1 Level. Check your listening comprehension and learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on Italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanova
            • Synchronised swimming is a sport in which Russia has a dominant place. Russian girls win almost all competitions thanks to their perfect synchronyzation, beauty and difficult tricks. But what about men? Until a few years ago this was a sport only for women. I am presenting an interesting topic to discuss  stereotypes in sports. 
            • You will work on your vocabulary by expanding within the same family of words . You will be able to form nouns from verbs with suffixes -ание, -ение (that is very close to English "ing" - плавать swim -> плавание swimming and you will learn all adjectives with suffix -шний (завтрашний tomorrow's etc.) And in this way it will be much easier to create new Russian words! 
            • You will remember conjugations of verbs like тренироваться train, соревноваться compete, завоевать win, добиться  get, obtain; 
            • We will try to interview each other, imagining you are an athlete or a journalist.


              • 9 min
            • B2-C1. Natalia Vodyanova. Beautiful philanthropist.
              • Listen to a story about Russian model, mother of 5 children, and philanthropist Natalia Vodyanova.
              • Check your listening comprehension and learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on Italki. https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanova
              • We will discuss the life of Natalia and will train numerous words with the meaning "to marry"  – замуж, замужем, жениться, пожениться, and also не замужем, не женат, and разводиться to divorce, быть в разводе.

                • Finally you will know how to use them correctly.

                • We will discuss marriage traditions in Tsarist Russia, in Soviet Union and now.
                • We will study and analyse a graph with the number of marriages and divorces in the URSS and nowadays Russia and we will think what influenced them. 
                • Grammar: numbers.
                  • 9 min
                • B1-B2. Natalia Vodyanova. Beautiful philanthropist

                  Listen to a story about Russian model, mother of 5 children, and philanthropist Natalia Vodyanova.

                  Check your listening comprehension and learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on Italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanova

                  We will discuss the life of Natalia and will train numerous words with the meaning "to marry"  - замуж, замужем, жениться, пожениться, and also не замужем, не женат, and разводиться to divorce, быть в разводе. Finally you will know how to use them correctly. 

                  Grammar: instrumental case of nouns and adjectives.

                  7 min
                • A2-B1. Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.

                  Audio file for the first lesson of a course "Russian Language: Real Breakthrough" for a A2-B1 Level.

                  Book a lesson with me on Italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanova 


                  Andrei Mironov is a great soviet actor. This lesson is based on his humorous stand-up show.
                  On this lesson we will discuss what you have ever studied (perhaps, chess, skating, musics, languages etc.). in your life and did you find this is good to force children study things they do not like or they would need it in their future.
                  We will train instrumental case, учить, учиться, изучать etc., похож. We will examine some Russian painting, we will play with proverbs about studies and we will easily remember many new words.


                  4 min

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                Hello! I am Yulia Stepanova and I am a teacher of Russian as a foreign language on italki.com