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“Vassily the Cat” is a book from the series about the adventures of a black cat named Vassily. Why doesn’t Vassily have a family? Does his grandmother, Nastas’ya Yur’evna, love him? What can a cat do to overcome loneliness? The feeling of compassion for the main character will allow children to learn lots of new words to improve speaking — as well as to enjoy reading — in Russian. Vocabulary and grammar levels correspond to A2. At the end of the book, a list of questions is available to test reading comprehension.

Author: Polina Guelfreikh

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Thin but Functional

Today I will answer a question from the mail: You represent Soroka as a one-year-long course, but the Student’s Book is so thin. How is that?

Today we will deal with a calendar and count. Soroka is designed for those students who study Russian once a week. Let’s count how many lessons they have over a year.

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Reading With Flashcards

Answers to the parents’ questions

Question #1: Why do we use flashcards for reading?

Answer: Flashcards are easier to sort and shuffle. You can add words that students should read and remove those that they already read well.

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Introducing Language to Speech

In my teaching career, there were situations when students knew grammar well and did grammar exercises correctly, but still ignored all learned grammar rules in their speech. And it didn’t matter what language they had been learning – Russian or English. Teachers often encounter this problem, so let’s figure out what we can do to cope with it.
I suggest taking three steps.

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Cartoons

I’m often asked which cartoon I can recommend to kids that learn Russian.

The answer is: The one that corresponds to their language level. It means that if your students follow the curriculum of the Soroka course, which is for beginners, then the cartoon should be of the same level. That way, it will make sense!

To give you a better understanding of why level-matching is important, I suggest that you conduct an experiment.

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Soroka 2 in English

Teacher’s Book Soroka 2 is available in English. For those parents and teachers who can speak Russian but cannot read it very well.

You can purchase it on Amazon, here is the link,

and my web-site, here is the link.

Soroka 1 Teacher’s Book in English

Teacher’s Book in English is available on Amazon. Follow the link https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08Z2RXZB5?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

The same book is also available on my web-site. Here is the link https://sorokam.com/en/catalog/Teachers_Book1_inEnglish

If you prefer pdf files you can purchase them on TpT press here https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Soroka-1-Teachers-Book-in-English-6691239

Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve

Is taking one hour a week of Russian language enough or not?

To answer this question, I invite you to learn how our memory works. Let’s view the forgetting curve. It is the result of experiments conducted by the German scientist Hermann Ebbinghaus in 1885. Here we see the following:

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Mistakes are Growth Points

All students make mistakes in class — take it easy, this is part of life.

When there are no mistakes, it means that the student knows everything and no longer needs a teacher.

Personally, I love when my students make the mistakes. I listen to them carefully and analyze them. We need mistakes. Mistakes help us understand where to go next. We see what material has been well-learned and what material still needs to be worked on.

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