Поте́шка «Ива́нушка-простота́»


📍 This rhyme belongs to День 27 of Course 1. Say it with your hands – then go back to the lesson.
😄 Поте́шка · A funny rhyme
Ива́нушка-простота́
Silly Ivanushka and the horse with no tail
⏱ 5 min · 🎒 You need: only your hands ✋
👀👂 Смотри́те и слу́шайте · Watch and listen
  • 🎬 Natasha's video is coming soon. Until then: read a line, then do it.
🤸 Покажи́те · Show it

Every line has its own gesture. Do it on the stressed syllable.

Say Do
Ива́нушка-простота́ Tap your forehead on ТА́ 🤪
Купи́л ло́шадь без хвоста́, Give coins on ПИ́Л; a tail behind your back – then shake your head on СТА́ 🐴
Сел он за́дом наперёд Turn round on РЁД 🔄
И пое́хал в огоро́д! Ride a horse on РО́Д 🥕
🔁 Повторя́йте · Say it and do it

Clap on the stress ´ – then do the move.

Ива́нушка-простота́
Купи́л ло́шадь без хвоста́,
Сел он за́дом наперёд
И пое́хал в огоро́д!
🗣️ Ва́ша о́чередь · Your turn
  1. Tell a friend in English what Ivanushka did – then say the rhyme again in Russian.
  2. Find his friend on the same day: Ы́тыр-Фы́тыр, who swapped a cow for mittens! 🧤

Can you do it without reading? – Молоде́ц!

✅ Прове́рьте себя́ · Check yourself

1 What did Ivanushka buy?

A horse with no tail.
A cow.
A hat.

2 «без хвоста́» means…

without a tail
with a tail
a long tail

3 How did he sit on the horse?

Back to front.
Very nicely.
On the floor.

Хорошо́! Молоде́ц!

💡 Заме́тьте · What to notice
  • без хвоста́ – без + -а, like без ша́пки (День 27).
  • пое́хал – from е́хать (День 17): he went – on a horse!
  • в огоро́д – куда́? (День 26): the word stays as it is.
  • Same day, same joke: Ы́тыр-Фы́тыр swaps a cow for mittens.


📖 Текст · The text (open it only after you can say it)
Ива́нушка-простота́
Купи́л ло́шадь без хвоста́,
Сел он за́дом наперёд
И пое́хал в огоро́д!
Silly Ivanushka
bought a horse without a tail,
sat on it back to front
and rode off into the vegetable garden!
A Russian folk rhyme (поте́шка).
📚 Слова́ · Words
простота́ – simplicity · купи́л – bought · ло́шадь – horse · без – without · хвост – tail · сел – sat down · пое́хал – went, rode · огоро́д – vegetable garden
Tap a word – the dictionary opens. You don't have to learn them all. 😊