Daily Life
Talk about your day in Russian. Learn the times of day, everyday activities and places, and put a daily routine in order.
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Your day in Russian
This module is about daily life: the times of day, the things you do, and the places you go. As before, every word is shown three ways: the script, the sound (a simple transliteration in brackets), and the English.
Times of day
Read the Cyrillic first, then use the transliteration as a check.
Match each word to its meaning
- день (den)
- утро (utro)
- вечер (vecher)
- ночь (noch)
- day
- morning
- evening
- night
Everyday activities
These are verbs in the infinitive, the "to do" form.
Match each verb to its meaning
- есть (yest)
- пить (pit)
- спать (spat)
- идти (idti)
- to eat
- to drink
- to sleep
- to go
Spot the verb
Which word means "to eat"?
- есть (yest)
- пить (pit)
- спать (spat)
- идти (idti)
Places
Two places that fill a day, plus the useful school phrase.
Spot the word
Which word means "school"?
- школа (shkola)
- дом (dom)
- утро (utro)
- день (den)
Actions, not things
Select the THREE words that are activities (verbs).
- есть (yest)
- пить (pit)
- спать (spat)
- утро (utro)
- школа (shkola)
- день (den)
A day in order
Put this simple daily routine in order, from the start of the day to the end.
- утро (utro) - morning
- идти в школу (idti v shkolu) - go to school
- есть (yest) - eat
- спать (spat) - sleep
At the café and the market
When you describe a meal out or a trip to the market in Russian, start with what you can see. All of these words are on the Edexcel vocabulary list. At the café table: кофе (kofe) coffee, вода (voda) water, торт (tort) cake, хлеб (khleb) bread. On the market stall: яблоко (yabloko) apple, банан (banan) banana, помидор (pomidor) tomato. And four more you will need: яйцо (yaytso) egg, молоко (moloko) milk, рыба (ryba) fish, сыр (syr) cheese.
How the writing works
Russian uses the Cyrillic alphabet, read left to right, and, like English, it has capital and small letters. Watch out for false friends: some letters look like English ones but sound different, for example С = s, Р = r, Н = n, and В = v.
Describe a day
Choose the right word to describe each part of the day.
- To talk about the morning, which word?
- To say to go (to school), which verb?
- To say to sleep at night, which verb?
Name the food in Russian
Choose the Russian word for the food in each picture.
- яйцо (yaytso)
- молоко (moloko)
- рыба (ryba)
- сыр (syr)
- хлеб (khleb)
- яблоко (yabloko)
The right word
Using the script, complete: "morning" is _____, "school" is _____, "to eat" is _____, and "to sleep" is _____.
Label the café and the market in Russian
Tap a Russian word, then tap the pin for what it names in the picture.
Daily life summary
Russian is written in the _____ alphabet, with capital letters. The word for day is _____, and the word for school is _____. To say to eat, you use _____.