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.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Saturday, December 6, 2008
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.
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.
Labels:
battleship,
declension,
names,
russian
Friday, December 5, 2008
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
Play the game
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Gender in Russian
This is a pretty simple choosing exercise - of three choices, which goes with which subject?
Try it out
Try it out
Labels:
declension,
gender,
matching,
russian
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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.
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.
Labels:
battleship,
declension,
game,
grammar,
pronouns
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
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!
Play the game!
Labels:
russian,
translation
Monday, November 17, 2008
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.
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.
Labels:
battleship,
game,
grammar,
russian,
verbs
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Russian Grammar Drills
Found these customizable drills on grammar:
Hope you find them useful.
Hope you find them useful.
Labels:
adjectives,
drills,
grammar,
nouns,
verbs
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Compound Words 1
Here's an exercise on Compound Words - matching the Russian with pictures. Short and simple.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Declining Names
Here is a presentation with exercises focusing on foreign names in Russian press and how (if) they decline.
Declining to Decline
Declining to Decline
Labels:
declension,
grammar,
names,
russian
Thursday, October 30, 2008
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
S Novym Godom
Lesson plan for S Novym Godom
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
People, Places, and Parties
Here's a Jeopardy! type game on some Russian politicians, parties, and places. Try it out!
Go play the game
Go play the game
Monday, October 27, 2008
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
The quiz focuses on information structure.
Click here to go to quiz
Labels:
arkhangelsky,
russian,
translation
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