Holidays

Каникулы 🏖️

Holidays are one of the topics you will be asked to talk and write about: **where you go, how you get there, and what you do**. Every word below is shown three ways: the **Cyrillic** spelling, a **transliteration** in brackets to help you say it, and the **English** meaning. Read the Cyrillic first and use the transliteration only to check the sound.

Key words (1) 🗂️

Start with four holiday words:

Match each word to its meaning

What does it mean?

What does the Russian word пляж (plyazh) mean?

• the beach
• the sea
• summer
• the holidays

Key words (2) 🚆

Now four more words you need for a holiday:

Match each word to its meaning

Getting there

Select the TWO Russian words that are ways of travelling.

• поезд (poezd)
• самолёт (samolyot)
• чемодан (chemodan)
• гора (gora)

Choose the Russian word

In Russian, the word for 'the sea' is _____, and the word for 'summer' is _____.

No word for "a" or "the" 💡

Russian has **no articles at all**. There is no word for "a" and no word for "the", so **море (more)** on its own can mean sea, a sea or the sea. The context tells you which. This works the other way too: when you translate into Russian, you simply drop the English "a" and "the". To say how you travel, learn the whole phrase: **на поезде (na poezde)** by train, **на самолёте (na samolyote)** by plane.

One word, three meanings

You see the Russian word море (more) in a sentence. What can it mean?

• sea, a sea or the sea, depending on the sentence
• only "a sea", never "the sea"
• only "the sea", never "a sea"
• nothing, until you add a Russian word for "the"

Where and how 🗺️

Holiday words fall into two groups. Sorting them this way makes them easier to recall, and adds one more place: **остров (ostrov)**, an island. Learn the transport column as whole phrases.

Planning a holiday 🧭

An interactive activity.

One more

The Russian word for 'a suitcase' is _____, the word for 'a mountain' is _____, and the word for 'an island' is _____.

Your turn ✍️

An interactive activity.