Повторе́ние 2: Практи́ческий день
Chapter Objectives
This is a cumulative assessment chapter. By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
- Describe a home and neighborhood, using prepositional location and existential statements with есть/нет.
- Narrate a daily routine using reflexive verbs, accusative objects, and time and frequency expressions.
- Order food and drink and request specific quantities using quantity genitive and numeral basics.
- Shop for clothing and goods, using accusative animacy, adjective agreement, demonstratives, and comparison.
- Combine home, routine, food, and shopping language into one connected practical day.
- Edit your own speaking and writing for the case, agreement, and vocabulary systems active in Chapters 1 through 9.
This chapter introduces no new productive grammar, case, aspect, motion, orthographic, or pronunciation system. Every task below draws on material already active from Chapters 1 through 9.
Communication Scenario
It is Anna's day off. She wakes up at home, tells a friend about her apartment and neighborhood, follows her usual morning routine, meets Nikolai for lunch, and then the two of them go shopping together, the same sequence of everyday situations built across Chapters 6 through 9. This chapter asks you to move through that whole day yourself, connecting home, routine, food, and shopping into one practical narrative.
- Every task below reuses a system already active from an earlier chapter, home and location from Chapter 6, routine and reflexive verbs from Chapter 7, food and quantity from Chapter 8, and shopping, animacy, and comparison from Chapter 9.
- No new case, aspect, or vocabulary domain appears in this chapter. The goal is to show that you can move between these systems smoothly within a single connected day.
- Treat the chapter as one integrated performance, not four separate quizzes, since a real day does not separate neatly into isolated topics.
Vocabulary Review
The words below are drawn from Chapters 6 through 9. All vocabulary from Chapters 1 through 9 remains fully productive in this chapter. No new vocabulary is introduced.
| Russian | English |
|---|---|
| кварти́ра, ко́мната, ку́хня | apartment, room, kitchen |
| магази́н, апте́ка, парк | store, pharmacy, park |
| есть, нет | there is/are, there is not/are not |
| Russian | English |
|---|---|
| встава́ть, умыва́ться, одева́ться | to get up, to wash up, to get dressed |
| у́тром, днём, ве́чером | in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening |
| ка́ждый день, обы́чно | every day, usually |
| Russian | English |
|---|---|
| хлеб, сыр, молоко́, чай, ко́фе | bread, cheese, milk, tea, coffee |
| ско́лько, немно́го, литр, кило́ | how much, a little, a liter, a kilogram |
| Russian | English |
|---|---|
| ку́ртка, руба́шка, костю́м, су́мка, пода́рок | jacket, shirt, suit, bag, gift |
| кра́сный, си́ний, большо́й, дорого́й, дешёвый | red, blue, big, expensive, inexpensive |
| э́тот/э́та/э́то/э́ти, доро́же/деше́вле/лу́чше/ху́же | this/these, more expensive/cheaper/better/worse |
Review any unfamiliar item in the vocabulary tables of Chapters 6 through 9 before continuing.
Pronunciation Review
No new pronunciation system is active in this chapter. Keep applying the stress and vowel reduction patterns from earlier chapters as you read the passages and dialogue below.
- Continue reducing unstressed о and а, as in молоко́ and кварти́ра.
- Continue distinguishing the reduced -ый ending of краси́вый from the fully stressed -о́й ending of дорого́й, as introduced in Chapter 9.
- Continue devoicing a final -г, -б, or -д, as in друг.
Grammar Review
No new grammar system is introduced in this chapter. The four subsections below organize the systems from Chapters 6 through 9 for cumulative review and practice.
Home and Location Chapter 6
Use prepositional location and есть/нет to describe a home and neighborhood.
- В кварти́ре есть ку́хня и две ко́мнаты.There is a kitchen and two rooms in the apartment.в + prepositional; есть + nominative
- В на́шем райо́не нет па́рка.There is no park in our neighborhood.нет + genitive absence
Daily Routine Chapter 7
Use reflexive verbs, accusative objects, and frequency expressions to narrate a routine.
- Ка́ждый день я встаю́ в семь часо́в и умыва́юсь.Every day I get up at seven o'clock and wash up.reflexive verbs, -ся; time expression
- У́тром я не смотрю́ телеви́зор.In the morning I do not watch television.не + verb; accusative inanimate object
Food and Quantity Chapter 8
Use quantity genitive and polite request frames to order and shop for food.
- Да́йте, пожа́луйста, кило́ сы́ра и литр молока́.Please give me a kilogram of cheese and a liter of milk.quantity genitive after кило́ and литр
Shopping Chapter 9
Use accusative animacy, adjective agreement, demonstratives, comparison, and object reference while shopping.
- Я вижу дру́га и покупа́ю ему́ пода́рок.I see my friend and buy him a gift.друг → дру́га, animate accusative
- Э́та ку́ртка деше́вле, чем та ку́ртка. Я хочу́ купи́ть её.This jacket is cheaper than that jacket. I want to buy it.demonstrative, comparison, object pronoun её
A single connected passage about a practical day will naturally move between prepositional location, reflexive verbs, quantity genitive, and accusative animacy within a few sentences. Watch for the shift from one system to the next as you read the Model Dialogue and the passages below, and practice making the same shifts yourself in the Writing Workshop.
Model Dialogue: Практи́ческий день
Context: Anna calls her friend Ле́на in the morning and tells her about her plans for the day.
Notice how the dialogue moves from home (Chapter 6) to routine (Chapter 7) to food and quantity (Chapter 8) to shopping (Chapter 9) within one short conversation.
Listening Practice
If no audio recording is available, ask a partner, instructor, or text to speech tool to read the passage below aloud, or read it aloud to yourself slowly.
- What does the apartment have, and what does it not have?
- What three items does Viktor buy at the food store?
- Which suit does Viktor buy, and why?
Speaking Practice
Управля́емая пра́ктика — Controlled practice: describe your day
With a partner, take turns describing one part of a typical day, home, routine, food, or shopping, using only vocabulary and grammar from Chapters 1 through 9.
Коммуникати́вное зада́ние — Communicative task: a full practical day
With a partner, narrate a complete day from morning to evening, moving through home, routine, a food purchase, and a shopping decision, as Anna does in the Model Dialogue.
Самостоя́тельная пра́ктика — Solo alternative
Record yourself narrating your own typical day, including at least one sentence about your home, your routine, a food item, and something you would like to buy. Listen back and check your case endings and adjective agreement.
Reading Practice
Оди́н день Мари́ны — One day in Marina's life
Меня́ зову́т Мари́на. Я живу́ в кварти́ре недалеко́ от це́нтра. В кварти́ре есть больша́я ку́хня, но нет второ́й ко́мнаты. Ка́ждое у́тро я встаю́ в семь часо́в, умыва́юсь и одева́юсь. Пото́м я иду́ в магази́н, потому́ что мне ну́жны хлеб, сыр и немно́го молока́. Днём я встреча́ю подру́гу, и мы идём в магази́н оде́жды. Подру́га хо́чет купи́ть пода́рок для сы́на. Она́ ви́дит ма́ленькую руба́шку, о́чень краси́вую, и покупа́ет её. Я то́же смотрю́ ку́ртки. Мне нра́вится чёрная ку́ртка, она́ лу́чше, чем си́няя. Ду́маю, я куплю́ её за́втра.
Зада́ние по чте́нию — Reading task:
- What does Marina's apartment have, and what does it not have?
- What does Marina's friend buy, and for whom?
- Which jacket does Marina prefer, and why?
Writing Workshop
Complete the following linked writing tasks in order. This workshop reviews Chapters 6 through 9 and introduces no new writing system.
Зада́ние 1 — Complete the sentence: Choose the correct form to complete each sentence, drawing on the systems reviewed in this chapter.
Зада́ние 2 — Practical day description: Write eight to ten sentences describing one connected practical day, moving through home, routine, food, and shopping, in that order.
- Review the Vocabulary Review tables above. Confirm the gender, case, and forms of any word you plan to use.
- Plan your four parts. Decide what you will say about your home, your routine, a food purchase, and a shopping decision.
- Draft your description. Include at least one prepositional location, one reflexive verb, one quantity genitive, one accusative animate noun, and one comparison.
- Read your description aloud once. Listen for correct stress and adjective agreement.
- Check each system against the Grammar Review section. Confirm every case ending and every agreement.
Спи́сок прове́рки — Editing checklist:
- Prepositional location and есть/нет are used correctly for the home description.
- Reflexive verbs and time expressions are used correctly for the routine description.
- Quantity genitive is used correctly after a quantity word.
- Accusative animacy is used correctly for any person mentioned as a direct object.
- Adjective agreement, a demonstrative, and a comparison are used correctly in the shopping description.
- No vocabulary or grammar from outside Chapters 1 through 9 has been used.
Culture and Communication
The daily sequence in this chapter, home, routine, a food purchase, and a shopping trip, reflects one common pattern, not a required schedule. Households, work patterns, and shopping habits differ widely among Russian-speaking communities, and a practical day for one person may look quite different from a practical day for another.
The types of stores, markets, and shops used for food and clothing, and the way people typically combine errands in a single day, vary across regions and among Russian-speaking communities inside and outside the Russian Federation. Do not assume that the pattern in this chapter is universal.
Common Mistakes
Error: Saying В кварти́ре нет ку́хню instead of В кварти́ре нет ку́хни.
Correction: After нет, use the genitive case, not the accusative case: нет ку́хни, not нет ку́хню.
Error: Saying Я умыва́ю у́тром instead of Я умыва́юсь у́тром.
Correction: Reflexive verbs like умыва́ться require the -ся ending in every conjugated form: я умыва́юсь, not я умыва́ю.
Error: Saying Я встреча́ю подру́га instead of Я встреча́ю подру́гу.
Correction: A feminine animate noun follows the same accusative pattern as a feminine inanimate noun: подру́га → подру́гу.
Chapter Review
Chapter 6
Prepositional location, genitive absence, есть/нет, в/на, word order in existential statements.
Chapter 7
Accusative inanimate objects, reflexive verbs, -ся/-сь, не, frequency and time expressions.
Chapter 8
Quantity genitive, numeral government basics, ско́лько, polite request frames.
Chapter 9
Accusative animacy, adjective agreement in active forms, demonstratives, comparison, object reference.
Часть A — Понима́ние (Comprehension)
1. Return to the Model Dialogue, and answer these short questions.
- What does Anna do in the morning, in the afternoon, and in the evening?
- Which jacket does Anna buy, and why?
Часть B — Пи́сьменная речь (Writing)
1. Write four sentences describing your own home, using есть or нет at least once.
2. Give the accusative singular form of подру́га, сын, and ку́ртка.
Часть C — Чте́ние (Reading)
1. Return to the reading passage about Marina, and list every place she goes during the day, in order.
Часть D — Говоре́ние (Speaking)
1. With a partner, narrate your own practical day from morning to evening, including at least one comparison.
Practical Performance Task
Chapter 10 Unit II Integrated Assessment
Мой практи́ческий день: My Practical Day
Complete the following connected tasks, in order, treating them as one full assessment of Chapters 1 through 9. No task below requires a system that has not yet been taught.
- Read the Model Dialogue and the reading passage about Marina. Answer the comprehension questions above before continuing.
- Describe your home or a home you know. Use prepositional location and есть or нет at least once.
- Narrate your typical morning routine. Use at least one reflexive verb and one time expression.
- Order or describe a food purchase. Use a quantity word with the genitive case.
- Describe a shopping decision. Use one animate accusative noun, adjective agreement, a demonstrative, and a comparison.
- Write your eight to ten sentence description from the Writing Workshop. Apply the editing checklist.
| Criterion | What is assessed |
|---|---|
| Home and location accuracy | The learner uses prepositional location and есть/нет correctly to describe a home. |
| Routine and reflexive accuracy | The learner forms reflexive verbs and time expressions correctly to narrate a routine. |
| Quantity genitive accuracy | The learner uses the genitive case correctly after a quantity word. |
| Accusative animacy accuracy | The learner forms the animate accusative correctly for the nouns active in Chapter 9. |
| Adjective, demonstrative, and comparison accuracy | The learner matches adjective and demonstrative endings and forms a correct comparison. |
| Connected performance | The learner moves between all four systems within one coherent practical day. |
This assessment uses only material introduced in Chapters 1 through 9. No new productive grammar, case, aspect, motion, orthographic, or pronunciation system appears in this chapter.
Answer Key
Listening — Comprehension
- The apartment has a kitchen, but it does not have a big room.
- Viktor buys bread, cheese, and a little coffee.
- Viktor buys the black suit, because he thinks it is better than the blue one.
Model Dialogue — Comprehension
- In the morning Anna gets up, washes up, and cleans her apartment. In the afternoon she goes to the store to buy cheese and milk. In the evening she meets Nikolai and goes shopping for a jacket.
- Anna buys the blue jacket, because it is cheaper than the red one.
Writing
- 1. есть. 2. встаю́. 3. сы́ра. 4. дру́га. 5. Э́та, та.
- Sample answer: Я живу́ в ма́ленькой кварти́ре. В кварти́ре есть ку́хня, но нет большо́й ко́мнаты. Ка́ждый день я встаю́ в семь часо́в и умыва́юсь. Пото́м я иду́ в магази́н. Мне ну́жны хлеб и немно́го сы́ра. Днём я встреча́ю дру́га, и мы идём в магази́н оде́жды. Он покупа́ет пода́рок для сы́на. Мне нра́вится си́няя ку́ртка, она́ деше́вле, чем чёрная. Я покупа́ю её. Other combinations using material from Chapters 1 through 9 are also correct.
- подру́га → подру́гу; сын → сы́на; ку́ртка → ку́ртку.
Reading
- Marina's apartment has a big kitchen, but it does not have a second room.
- Marina's friend buys a small shirt as a gift for her son.
- Marina prefers the black jacket, because she thinks it is better than the blue one.
Looking Ahead
Что вы уже уме́ете — What you can do now
You can describe a home and neighborhood, narrate a daily routine, order food and request quantities, shop for clothing and goods, and connect all four of these systems into one practical day, in speaking and in writing.