Tatiana Mikhaylova

Russian Reading. Where Does the Plane Fly? Tatiana Mikhaylova

This is a dual language book (the English translation follows the original story) designed for students of intermediate and advanced levels, who can read more complex texts in Russian and are working on further improving their grammar and vocabulary. The readers should be familiar, or currently learning declension of nouns, conjugation of verbs, past, present and future tenses; understand how complex sentences are formed and how main and subordinate sentences are joined together by linking words. In a couple of chapters there is a lot of subjunctive mood as well as the construction that is used to express a wish, and also other standard constructions commonly used in the Russian language, both written and spoken. The vocabulary of the story is focusing on holiday shopping, Christmas celebration, entertainment, tourism, and some crime related words and expressions. There are many prefixed and non prefixed verbs of motion. The book consists of 25 chapters, each of which is followed by a list of some new words and ten questions pertaining to the contents of the chapter. In order to make the learning process more fun and productive, the story has an intriguing plot of an adventure that captures the attention of the readers and keeps them wanting to continue reading, and thus, also continue studying.