The Passport of Russian language

Aims of our project:

• To show an importance of the Russian language in the modern world; to prove that Russian is popular and extended.
• To show complete representation about the formation of the Russian language, to learn its history and borrowed words from other languages.
• To show that Russian culture takes the leading place in world culture, in various spheres of world business.
• To involve foreign students to study the Russian language.

Introduction

• Now Russian gets an increasing value in the most various spheres of world business. However among foreigners there are myths that learning this language is difficult. They say, Russian is spoken by few people and Russia is closed and dangerous country with a lot of problems. Therefore we will try to prove schoolboys, students, foreigners that it is necessary to study Russian to learn masterpieces of Russian literature, to join Russian culture and to know about the remarkable country Russia.

Questionnaire

1. The name of the language…

2. It is the official language of (names of the countries)…

3. How many people speak it as a first language?

4. People understand it in (names of the countries)…

5. How many people speak it as a second language?

6. The origin of Russian language…

7. Language that contributed to Russian language…

8. English words in Russian language…

9. Easy things for an English person to say in Russian language …

10.Difficult things for an English person to say in Russian language…

11. Why should people learn Russian language?

The results of questionnaire

We have asked 70 students of 8-11 classes

42% - can't remember about Russian “parent language”

70% - don't know an origin of term "Russian"

80% - believe that it is necessary to learn Russian to become well – educated person

60% - don’t know that Russian is the international language

Email book

For your information:

• . K.I. Kaufman, M.Yu. Kaufman. Happy English.ru, tutorial for grade 8.
• Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary. (Small). Moscow: Scientific publishing house “The Great Russian Encyclopedia”, 2000 - 1038p.
• 3. Kolesov V.V. History of the Russian language in the stories. Moscow: The Enlightenment, 1982 - 191s.

• http://ru.wikipedia.org/wik

Chapter 2. The world’s languages. and the place of Russian among them

Used in countries

Official language

Russian

Israel

Russia

Germany

Kyrgyzstan

Canada

Moldavia

Australia

USA

Kazakhstan

The other republics of the USSR

The official languages of The United Nations

ENGLISH

RUSSIAN

ARABIC

CHINESE

SPANISH

FRENCH

For your information:

1. Иллюстрированный энциклопедический словарь. (Малый). Москва: Научное издательство «Большая Российская энциклопедия», 2000 – 1038 с.

2. http://ru.wikipedia.org/wik

Chapter 3. The origin of the Russian language

Chapter 4. The borrowed words in Russian

Turkish

German

Greek

Dutch

Рейд

Матрос

Яхта

каюта

Галстук

Пудель

Картофель

бинт

Алтарь

Патриарх

Сатана

Канон

Сарай

Шалаш

Деньги

Карман

Костюм

Пальто

Мебель

Актёр

Клуб

Теннис

Сквер

лидер

English

French

• 1. Difficult letters for pronunciation are hissing letters, letters и-ы, ь, ъ. For example foreigners say words «коска, саска» instead of « кошка, чашка »
• 2.It’s difficult to understand soft consonants. For example they say a word « осэн » instead of « осень» .
• 3. It is difficult to understand alternation of consonants.
• 4. A huge number of hissing and whistling sounds.

• Genders are difficult. For example in Russian we have tree (it), birch (she), poplar (he).
• Russian words change so much. For example, it is possible to hear in foreigner’s speech : « Мой жена пришёл из работа».
• Plurals are different. Compare: table s , book s , tree s . – стол ы , книг и , деревь я .

• There are a lot of punctuation marks: commas, semicolon, dash, colon, dots.

• There are some difficulties in direct speech. (If the author’s words are at the beginning you have to put the colon. If the author’s words are at the end you have to put the dash.

• Difference in writing and pronunciation. For example: в о да – [в а да], пра зд ник – [пра з ник], ду б - [ду п] , ж и л – [ж ы л].
• The particle «не» is written with words separately or in a one word.

• Difficulties in understanding idioms, proverbs, sayings, riddles.
• For example, « Красна изба пирогами». The foreigners ask: « Зачем красить избу пирогами?»

For your information:

1. Иллюстрированный энциклопедический словарь. (Малый). Москва: Научное издательство «Большая Российская энциклопедия», 2000 – 1038 с.

2. Одинцов В. В., Иванов В. В. Школьный словарь иностранных слов. Москва: Просвещение, 1994 – 272 с.

3. Русский язык: Справочные материалы: Учебное пособие для учащихся/ Баранов М. Т., Костяева Т. А.; Под. ред. Шанского Н. М. – 5-е изд., испр. – Москва: Просвещение, 1998 – 288 с.

4. http://ru.wikipedia.org/wik