Kraski A1 international version - Index

Welcome to Moscow

Hi! My name's ...
    Vocabulary: personal information
    Exercises: comprehension, vocabulary, grammar
New Friends
    Vocabulary: personal information, nationality, countries
    Exercises: comprehension, vocabulary, grammar
Liudmila Mikhailovna's Guests
    Vocabulary: the family
    Exercises: comprehension, vocabulary, grammar
Talking about ...
    Speaking exercises

I study Russian

What languages do you speak?
    Vocabulary: academic vocabulary, linguistic knowledge
    Exercises: comprehension, vocabulary, grammar
Good luck!
    Vocabulary: academic vocabulary, computing terms
    Exercises: comprehension, vocabulary, grammar
Hello, is that Liudmila Mikhailovna?
    Vocabulary: academic vocabulary, telephone conversation
    Exercises: comprehension, vocabulary, grammar
Talking about ...
    Speaking exercises

Russia in transition

The White House
    Vocabulary: Socio-political vocabulary
    Exercises: comprehension, vocabulary, grammar
A Sunday away from the city
    Vocabulary: social situations
    Exercises: comprehension, vocabulary, grammar
What's on tv?
    Vocabulary: social situations, mass-media
    Exercises: comprehension, vocabulary, grammar
Talking about ...
    Speaking exercises

Have a good trip!

What shall we do on Sunday?
    Vocabulary: culture and tourism
    Exercises: comprehension, vocabulary, grammar
What time does the train leave?
    Vocabulary: culture and tourism, timetable information, means of transport
    Exercises: comprehension, vocabulary, grammar
Have a good trip!
    Vocabulary: culture and tourism, information at the airport
    Exercises: comprehension, vocabulary, grammar
Talking about ...
    Speaking exercises

Study tools

Cyrillic alphabet
Sounds
    vowels
    consonants
    spelling rules
Grammar cards
Vocabulary cards
Dictionary

Sounds

Vowels

  • Vowels in the stressed position
  • Vowels in the unstressed position

Consonants

  • Hard and soft consonants
  • Voiced and voiceless consonants

Principal spelling rules

Interactive practice exercises:

  • Recognising strong and weak consonants within words
  • Recognising voiced and voiceless consonants within words

Speaking exercises: strong and weak, voiced and voiceless consonants

Grammar cards:

  • Adjectives
  • Adverbs
  • Adverbs of place
  • Predicative adverbs надо, можно, нельзя
  • The construction У меня есть
  • Name, surname and patronym
  • Simple and complex cardinal numbers
  • Ordinal numbers
  • The demonstrative pronoun этот
  • Pronouns and adverbs - question forms
  • Personal pronouns
  • Possessive adjectives
  • Nouns – declension of nouns
  • Nouns – gender
  • Nouns – plural forms of nouns
  • Verbs with the –ся particle
  • Verbs of movement идти and ехать
  • Verbs – verb form должен...
  • Verbs – tenses and aspects
  • Verbs – first conjugation, present tense
  • Verbs – second conjugation, present tense
  • Verbs – future tense
  • Verbs – future compound tense
  • Verbs – simple future tense
  • Verbs – past tense
  • The verb мочь
  • The verb хотеть

Vocabulary cards

  • Unit 1.1
    The passport
  • Unit 1.2
    Nations and nationalities
  • Unit 1.3
    The family
    The apartment
  • Unit 2.1
    The adverb по-русски and the adjective русский
  • Unit 2.2
    Times of day
    The computer and computer accessories
    The days of the week
  • Unit 2.3
    The telephone pad
  • Unit 3.1
    The use of the adjectives русский and российский
    Adjectives: colours
  • Unit 3.2
    Adverbs and adjectives
  • Unit 3.3
    Expressions of agreement and disagreement
    Use of the verbs звать and называться
  • Unit 4.1
    Public transport
    The verbs of movement идти / ехать
  • Unit 4.2
    Time and the clock
    The railway station
  • Unit 4.3
    The seasons and the weather