In this interactive video, learners are introduced to verbal adverbs (gerunds) and verbal adjectives (participles) for recognition. Length: 13:19.
Project Tags: gerunds, participles, verbal adjectives, and verbal adverbs. Level: Intermediate. Activity Type: Grammar and Reading. Format: Interactive Video and Lesson. Grammar: Adjectives and Verbs. Vocabulary: Word Formation.
In this interactive video, learners are introduced to the concept of diminutives. Length: 3:14.
Project Tags: diminutives. Level: Novice. Activity Type: Culture and Grammar. Format: Interactive Video and Lesson. Vocabulary: Vocabulary and Word Formation.
In this interactive video, learners are introduced to some strategies for identifying cognates from English. Length: 5:28.
Level: Novice. Activity Type: Reading and Vocabulary. Format: Interactive Video and Lesson. Vocabulary: Vocabulary and Word Formation. Orthography: Spelling.
This is lesson 4 in a lesson series that focuses on challenges in understanding and learning Russian vocabulary. This lesson focuses on: identifying a Russian word’s part of speech, recognizing that consonants and vowels can change within the same morpheme, recognizing the meanings of prefixes, recognizing the meanings of suffixes, recognizing the meanings of common roots, predicting meanings of words based on word parts.
Project Tags: lesson series. Level: Intermediate. Activity Type: Grammar, Reading, and Vocabulary. Format: Interactive Slideshow. Grammar: Case. Vocabulary: Vocabulary and Word Formation. Orthography: Orthography and Spelling.
This is lesson 3 in a lesson series that focuses on challenges in understanding and learning Russian vocabulary. This lesson focuses on strategies for successfully using Russian-English English-Russian dictionaries, both paper and online versions.
Project Tags: lesson series. Level: Intermediate. Activity Type: Grammar, Reading, and Vocabulary. Format: Interactive Slideshow. Grammar: Case. Vocabulary: Vocabulary and Word Formation. Orthography: Orthography and Spelling.
This is lesson 2 in a lesson series that focuses on challenges in understanding and learning Russian vocabulary. This lesson focuses on: recognizing where cognates are likely to occur, recognizing letters and letter combinations used predominantly in foreign words, recognizing violations of spelling and pronunciation rules in foreign words, recognizing ways of transliterating English to Russian, recognizing Russian equivalents of English suffixes, recognizing the productive verb suffix -oвать with foreign roots, recognizing “false friends”.
Project Tags: lesson series. Level: Intermediate. Activity Type: Reading and Vocabulary. Format: Interactive Slideshow and Lesson. Vocabulary: Vocabulary and Word Formation.
In this interactive video, learners are introduced to the concept of roots, word formation, and word families. Length: 11:57.
Project Tags: roots. Level: Novice. Activity Type: Reading and Vocabulary. Format: Lesson and Video. Vocabulary: Word Formation.
In this video, learners are introduced to the concept of the nominative form as the dictionary form and difficulties related to different forms of words. They get tips for determining the dictionary form. Length: 2:34.
Level: Novice. Activity Type: Grammar. Format: Video. Grammar: Nominative Case. Vocabulary: Word Formation. Orthography: Spelling.