Tests for Soroka course

Tests for Soroka course

What are they for?

The exercises from these tests can be used as: tests, additional exercises, and an entry test. If you have doubts about which level to start with — Soroka 1 or Soroka 2 — please do all of these tests first, and this will help you to determine the level.

Exactly the same tests in their entirety are at the very end of the Soroka Teacher’s Book. So, if you already purchased the Teacher’s Book, you already have these tests. You don’t need to buy this file.

These are the links to the files:

Soroka 1 test https://sorokam.com/en/catalog/tests1
Soroka 2 test https://sorokam.com/en/catalog/tests2
Soroka 3 test https://sorokam.com/en/catalog/test3

Soroka. Russian language for children

Learn by Teaching

The question of what qualifications a teacher should have is not an idle question. I previously wrote about our teachers and people with different backgrounds who also teach Russian as a foreign language. There are both professors and people who know language more or less. How do I feel about that?

Let’s begin with a story that took place 100 years ago in Hungary. A young girl who was a graduate chemist couldn’t find a job. Quote:

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Learning the Rules by Derivation

I frequently give my students the opportunity to derive rules by themselves. I write about it in the Teacher’s Book, as well. Why am I doing it? How does it help us in studying Russian as a foreign language in the Soroka course? Let’s figure it out.

First, I would like for you to look in the Teacher’s Book and see what I am talking about.

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Pre-order a New Book!

“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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Soroka. Russian language for children

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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