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Business 4

2011-09-17T14:25:00.001-04:00

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Business 3

2011-09-17T14:20:00.001-04:00

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Business 2

2011-09-17T14:10:00.004-04:00

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Business 1

2011-09-17T14:07:00.004-04:00

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Verbs: pick the aspect

2009-08-24T08:49:00.004-04:00

This is a little true-false quiz on aspect. You'll be given a verb and you'll pick the aspect.

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Fore-wards

2009-08-17T17:00:00.000-04:00

This quiz deals with the prefix пред-.

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Cloze Translation

2009-08-10T09:48:00.000-04:00

This is a cloze translation exercise. You'll be given Putin's speech from Medvedev's inauguration in Russian, with a partial English translation, and you'll fill in the blanks.

Do the exercise

Parts of Speech

2009-08-02T11:48:00.002-04:00

This quiz gives you related words and asks you to translate them into the correct part of speech.

For example, is деятельность "acted", "actionable", or "activity"?

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Colors of the world (IV)

2009-07-30T14:00:00.001-04:00

In this matching game, the Ukrainian color word is paired with something that is that color. Note that the colors are all in masculine, so they won't necessarily match the other word in gender!

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Colors of the world (III)

2009-07-24T13:58:00.000-04:00

This matching game pairs a Ukrainian color word with the English name of something that is that color.

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Colors of the world (II)

2009-07-16T13:25:00.000-04:00

In this set of matching exercises, you match a Russian color with a word naming something that is that color...

Note that all the color words are in masculine, so they won't necessarily match in gender!

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Colors of the world (I)

2009-07-08T13:23:00.001-04:00

In this set of matching exercises, you match a Russian color with an English word naming something that is that color...

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Scrambled Parties (Ukr)

2009-07-02T13:16:00.000-04:00

Unscramble the Ukrainian political parties before the little bear dies! Unfortunately, the flash software doesn't support Cyrillic, so it's in transliteration...

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Russian Morphology Diagnostic

2009-06-29T15:32:00.000-04:00

Though this was written for our RUSS2102 review course, anyone's free to take it. Just don't enter your name!

The quiz is on the basics of morphology: using the form of a word to predict its part of speech or its gender, and matching up words that share a root.

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Morphology in Context

2009-06-21T10:12:00.002-04:00

Here's a quiz on morphology, using context. You'll be given partial Russian sentences and their translations. You'll use your knowledge of prefixes and suffixes - and the context! - to determine which would be the best fit.

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Making new words with suffixes

2009-06-12T20:31:00.000-04:00

Here's another matching exercise on suffixes. In this one, you're given a root and a meaning for a new word to be made from it (for instance, дум: thoughtful) and you pick the right suffix (which would be чив, in this case).

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Fill Vowel Challenge

2009-06-05T16:23:00.003-04:00

This activity is called a "challenge board". It's kind of like Jeopardy, in that it has categories and columns, but the points are awarded differently.

This particular one is on fleeting (fill) vowels - providing the correct form (with or without) when given an example of the other one.

Give it a try, why don't you?

Fleeting Vowels

2009-05-28T14:59:00.003-04:00

Here are two activities you can do to practice identifying fleeting vowels in Russian words. One is a matching game, and the other is concentration.

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CSI Perm

2009-05-20T06:19:00.003-04:00

This is a quiz on identifying, and then translating, Russian verbal adjectives (participles) and verbal adverbs (deeprichastie, or 'gerunds'). It uses a news article about a murder investigation.

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Prefixes in Jeopardy

2009-05-12T08:20:00.000-04:00

Yes, another review of Russian prefixes, this one in a Jeopardy! style game.

Play it here.

Suffixes in Jeopardy

2009-05-04T12:56:00.001-04:00

Here's a Jeopardy!-style game for Russian suffixes. It covers 10 each noun and adjective suffixes, and five verbal ones. Although it was designed as a review for our Morphology/Word-Building Course, there's no reason that anyone else couldn't use it.

Play it here.

Subpar

2009-04-28T11:08:00.000-04:00

This matching exercise deals with the prefix nedo-.

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What's the Infinitive?

2009-04-24T09:00:00.001-04:00

In this quiz, you're provided with a conjugated verb, and asked for the infinitive. Pretty easy!

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Scrambled Idioms

2009-04-13T12:34:00.000-04:00

Here are 20 Russian idioms, with an equivalent English meaning, all of which are scrambled. Your challenge: unjumble them!

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Suffixes and Meanings

2009-04-06T11:14:00.003-04:00

Here is a set of activities for suffixes - noun, adjective, and verb - and their meanings. You can do flashcards, concentration, or a matching exercise.

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Compounds with Quantities

2009-03-25T09:11:00.000-04:00

This quiz deals with Russian compounds that contain numbers and quantifiers.

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Calques

2009-03-20T16:36:00.000-04:00

Many Russian prefixes can be translated using calques, Latinate prefixes such as re-, ex-, trans- etc.

This quiz is on matching prefixes with their calques.

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Pri-paired

2009-03-13T22:57:00.000-04:00

This quiz is on the prefix при-; it consists of matching nouns, adjectives, verbs, and phrases with their English counterparts in ad-.

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Scrambled Parties

2009-03-06T13:03:00.001-05:00

Your task: to unscramble the names of ten Russian political parties.

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Cloze Translation

2009-02-24T09:59:00.000-05:00

Here's a cloze translation exercise for Putin's New Year speech. You'll get the Russian, and then have some choices for some of the words and phrases. Pick the one that's best!

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Bad Words

2009-02-17T11:14:00.002-05:00

Here are matching, concentration, and flashcards for bad character traits.

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Good Words

2009-02-10T10:55:00.000-05:00

Here are matching, concentration, and flashcards for a set of words for good character traits.

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Can it be который ?

2009-02-03T09:22:00.000-05:00

Long-form verbal adjectives not only directly modify nouns, but can head a clause. They are semantically equal to another kind of clause: the который clause.

In this activity, you'll be asked to rewrite participial clauses into который clauses and vice versa.

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Participial Adjectives

2009-01-28T21:13:00.000-05:00

This one is a matching exercise on, yes, Russian Participial Adjectives: participles used as attributive modifiers. Not long - 24 in all.

Aspect Pairs

2009-01-24T08:47:00.000-05:00

Here some exercises on matching aspectual pairs of verbs. You can do matching, concentration, or flashcards.

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Three Meanings of O

2009-01-12T21:00:00.000-05:00

This quiz is a matching exercise for the prefix о- (об-) - nouns and verbs.

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Putin's New Year Speech

2009-01-12T12:59:00.000-05:00

Here are a number of activities - flashcards, matching, and concentration, using terms and idioms from Putin's New Year's speech.

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Parts of Speech

2009-01-05T10:35:00.003-05:00

Here's an exercise in identifying parts of speech, in an address given by Putin on New Year's Eve.

Work the exercise.

Coming or Staying?

2008-12-19T13:45:00.003-05:00

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

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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

2008-12-06T16:18:00.003-05:00

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

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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

2008-12-05T15:33:00.001-05:00

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.

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Gender in Russian

2008-12-03T16:43:00.001-05:00

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

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Pronouns Ahoy

2008-11-19T16:58:00.003-05:00

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

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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?

2008-11-18T14:04:00.003-05:00

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

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Verbal Battles

2008-11-17T15:38:00.004-05:00

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

2008-11-13T11:35:00.001-05:00

Found these customizable drills on grammar:

Russian Verbs

Russian Nouns

Russian Adjectives

Hope you find them useful.

English Verbs

2008-11-12T19:25:00.001-05:00

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

Play the game here.

Compound Words 2

2008-11-10T18:34:00.000-05:00

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

Compound Words

Politics

2008-11-04T21:59:00.001-05:00

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

Compound Words 1

2008-11-02T23:26:00.006-05:00

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

Declining Names

2008-10-31T13:37:00.001-04:00

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

2008-10-30T14:31:00.000-04:00

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

2008-10-29T12:54:00.000-04:00

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

People, Places, and Parties

2008-10-28T12:58:00.001-04:00

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

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Кто ты translation quiz

2008-10-27T22:36:00.000-04:00

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.

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