Bad Words

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

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Good Words

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

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Can it be который ?

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

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

Aspect Pairs

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

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Three Meanings of O

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

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Putin's New Year Speech

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

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

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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.

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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

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.