Кот в сумке!
Stand up! Say yesterday's words with the gestures: РОТ 👄 · ТОРТ 🎂 · СОК 🧃 · КРЕМ · СТАРТ! 🏁
- And the diet chant: Тут рот, там торт. Торт – в рот?! Р-р-р! 😄
- Don't read anything yet. Tap and listen. Watch the bag! 👜🐈
- Three letters today – three more false friends, like Р and С.
- В looks like English B, but says v: ВОТ = vot.
- Н looks like English H, but says n: НОС = nos.
- У looks like English y, but says oo as in moon: ТУТ = toot.
- Small letters: в н у – small в and н look like small capitals, not like b and h.
- 🎉 Now you can read ТУТ, ТУК-ТУК, ВОТ, НЕ and НА – they are not picture words any more!
Say every word aloud, then do the action on the loud syllable: СУМ-ка – the cake drops into the bag on СУМ; ста-КАН – you lift the glass on КАН; ок-НО – you point to the window on НО.
🧠 Scientists: people who move while they say a new word remember it better. Feels silly? Do it anyway! 😄
- Russian things are he, she or it too. Point and say:
Read alone. Guess, then tap. Only the letters you know: А К М О Т Е Р С В Н У.
👜 СУ́МКА · СТАКА́Н · КУ́РТКА · НОС · РУКА́ · ОКНО́
🌅 У́ТРО · СТЕНА́ · НО́ТА
🙋 ОН · ОНА́ · ОНО́ · ТУТ · ВОТ · НЕТ · НЕ · НА
🎂 ТОРТ · СОК · РОТ · КОТ · КРЕМ
- Write three words in big letters: СУ́МКА, ОКНО́, У́ТРО. Say them.
Say the story aloud, with the actions. Then play: do the action – say the word. Mix them up!
У́тро. 🌅
Сок в стака́не. 🥛
Кот у окна́. 🐈🪟
Вот торт. 🎂 Торт – в су́мку! 👜
Ку́ртка… вот так! 🧥
Тук-тук! Кто там? … 👜
Кот в су́мке! 🐈 Нос в кре́ме!
Кот – он. Су́мка – она́. Окно́ – оно́.
Молоде́ц! Пока́! 👋
- Put something into a bag and say: Торт – в су́мку! or Сок – в су́мку! Take it out: Вот торт!
- Point at things at home and say он, она́ or оно́: кот – он, ку́ртка – она́, окно́ – оно́. A help: -а → она́, -о → оно́.
- Be the teacher: say у́тро, стака́н, окно́, су́мка, ку́ртка, нос – someone at home does the action.
Can you do it without the video? – Молоде́ц! Go to the quiz.
У́тро. Сок в стака́не. Кот у окна́. Вот торт. Торт – в су́мку! Ку́ртка… вот так! Тук-тук! Кто там? … Кот в су́мке! Нос в кре́ме! Кот – он. Су́мка – она́. Окно́ – оно́. Молоде́ц! Пока́!
Morning. Juice in a glass. The cat is by the window. Here is a cake. The cake – into the bag! The jacket… like this! Knock-knock! Who's there? … A cat in the bag! A nose in the cream! The cat – he. The bag – she. The window – it. Well done! Bye!
- В = v · Н = n · У = oo.
- В alone = in: сок в стака́не, кот в су́мке.
- У alone = by, at: кот у окна́.
- After в and у the end of the word changes a little: су́мка → в су́мке, окно́ → у окна́. Just copy Natasha – the rule comes later.
- он · она́ · оно́ = he · she · it. Things are he, she or it too.
- Э́ТО is still a picture word (Э comes later).
- Every new word has two links: tap the word to hear it 🔊, tap the picture to open it in the dictionary 📖.
ЛО́НДОН – the stress is on the first syllable, as in English. But Russians say a real, round о: LON-d’n, not LUN-dun. The second о comes after the stress, so it is short and weak (like the a in sofa).
ТЕЛЕФО́Н – not like the English TEL-ih-fohn: the stress is on the last syllable: ti-li-FON (е without stress sounds like a short и). That is why we mark the stress.
🎯 Why does о sound like а?
🔬 Почему́ так · Why this way
- We put things in bags, we don't explain endings. A gesture that matches the meaning, made by the learner, helps a new word stay in memory. Study with adults – Macedonia & Knösche 2011, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig.
- Watching helps too. Watching the gesture helps almost as much as doing it, so the video works even before you move. 7 studies, 309 adults – Oppici et al. 2023.
- An old, tested way. The Berlitz schools have taught like this since 1878: name the thing, do the action, no translation.
- Our own method. Natasha's Language Aerobics – tested for many years with her students.
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