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For obvious reasons, I have not put any tests or exams up here. However, I have developed chapter tests and exams for the Intermediate textbook V Puti, as follows: Chapter 1, Chapters 2-3 (combined), Chapters 4-5 (combined), Chapters 1-6 (3-hour exam), Chapter 7 (with verbs of motion), Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, and Chapters 7-12 (3-hour exam). Anyone interested in obtaining copies of these files can email me at the address given above.

The following handouts, quizzes, exercises, etc., are organized according to the semesters in which I used them at Columbia, but some first-year materials might conceivably be useful in second-year Russian, and vice versa.

First-Year Russian

• Second Semester:
  • Irregular Nominative Plurals ("Dysfunctional Families")
  • Dative plural exercises
  • Genitive plural flow chart [GIF]
  • Imperative formation flow chart
  • Unprefixed verbs of motion (MD and UD, imperfective only)
    • Usage chart (past/present/future) [PDF]
    • Exercises

Second-Year Russian (using V Puti)

• First Semester:
  • Grading sheet for student compositions
  • Quiz on grammatical terms
  • Reading comprehension exercise for V puti, p. 152
  • Exercise on nasal-stem "taking" verbs (vziat', cniat', poniat', etc.)
    
    
• Second Semester:
  • Usage of to, chto..., to, kak... etc. -- brief explanation and exercises
  • Unprefixed verbs of motion (MD and UD, both aspects, all tenses): usage chart with exercises [PDF]
  • Vocab/grammar exercise on "fitting-room vocabulary" (eti sapogi mne maly, etc.), based on "The Three Bears"
  • Imperative formation flow chart
  • Table: Summary of 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-person imperatives (form, usage)
  • Quiz on imperatives (1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-person types)
  • Questionnaire about students' sporting interests (in-class conversation exercise)

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