Coming or Staying?

This battleship game is a review of Ukrainian prepositions на в and у in their spatial, temporal, and a few other uses.

Play the game!

Note: "computer skill level" is how good you want your opponent to be. To play the game, click on the squares on your side - the blank side - to try to locate your opponent's ships. If you answer a question correctly, you score a hit; if you don't, you have to take a second shot. Hit each square in a ship to sink it. To win, sink the computer's ships before it sinks yours.

Declining to Decline - the Battle

Here's a battleship game using foreign names in Russian press: how do they decline?

Play the game!

Note: "computer skill level" is how good you want your opponent to be. To play the game, click on the squares on your side - the blank side - to try to locate your opponent's ships. If you answer a question correctly, you score a hit; if you don't, you have to take a second shot. Hit each square in a ship to sink it. To win, sink the computer's ships before it sinks yours.

Russian holidays

This is a matching game, with official "day off" and popular "work day" holidays in Russia. You can play it over and over, as each time you'll get a new set of eight dates and days to match.

Play the game

Gender in Russian

This is a pretty simple choosing exercise - of three choices, which goes with which subject?

Try it out

Pronouns Ahoy

Here's a battleship game - sink the enemy's ships with your knowledge of Russian pronoun declension and use.

Play the game.

Note: "computer skill level" is how good you want your opponent to be. To play the game, click on the squares on your side - the blank side - to try to locate your opponent's ships. If you answer a question correctly, you score a hit; if you don't, you have to take a second shot. Hit each square in a ship to sink it. To win, sink the computer's ships before it sinks yours.

Who wants to be a translator?

Here's a "Rags to Riches" game (a bit like 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?') on Translation Theory (Russian examples).

Play the game!

Verbal Battles

Here's a battleship game - sink the enemy's ships with your knowledge of Russian verb conjugations.

Play the game.

Note: "computer skill level" is how good you want your opponent to be. To play the game, click on the squares on your side - the blank side - to try to locate your opponent's ships. If you answer a question correctly, you score a hit; if you don't, you have to take a second shot. Hit each square in a ship to sink it. To win, sink the computer's ships before it sinks yours.

Russian Grammar Drills

Found these customizable drills on grammar:

• Russian Verbs


• Russian Nouns


• Russian Adjectives

Hope you find them useful.

English Verbs

For a change of pace, this is a Jeopardy!-type game on English Verbs.

Play the game here.

Compound Words 2

Here's a longer (25 words) matching exercise on Russian compound words, text only.

Compound Words

Politics

Politics on my mind tonight, so here's a quiz on Russian politics, nothing too difficult!

Compound Words 1

Here's an exercise on Compound Words - matching the Russian with pictures. Short and simple.

Declining Names

Here is a presentation with exercises focusing on foreign names in Russian press and how (if) they decline.

Declining to Decline

New Year's Day with verbs

Here are a couple of presentations on predicting verb tense and aspect. They're really the same lesson, but one has the lesson plan included and the other doesn't. The text - including an audio clip and video - is Putin's 2008 New Year's Day speech.

S Novym Godom
Lesson plan for S Novym Godom

Roots

Here are some Quizlet sets for Russian roots (as used in 102). These are flashcard-based exercises for study and matching quizes.

Set One

Set Two

Set Three

Set Four

Set Five

Set Six

Set Seven

People, Places, and Parties

Here's a Jeopardy! type game on some Russian politicians, parties, and places. Try it out!

Go play the game

Кто ты translation quiz

This quiz is ten multiple choice questions based on translating Aleksandr Arkhangelsky's column И я скажу кто ты, which (in brief) is an examination of the lack of any responsible activist groups which support the government and which can oppose the right- and left-wing radicals - and why this is the case.

The quiz focuses on information structure.

Click here to go to quiz