September 1: “Хто я?” sticker notes game

Description: Students will be given sticky notes on which to write names of  Russian-speaking historical characters or characters from Russian fiction and will be prompted to ask each other yes/no questions to determine who their character is.

September 8: Cooking demonstration 

Description: We will take a recipe from the book, “Книга о вкусной и здоровой пище”, read it outloud asking students to clarify the meaning of the sentences in the recipe, and then use cooking utensils and ingredients(which we are going to ask students to name) and then comment the entire process 

September 15: Show and tell

Description: Students will be invited to bring an object or picture and present it to their peers. This will improve the students’s ability to present and get to know their classmates. Students will be encouraged to ask questions in order to feel more comfortable speaking to one another. Russian/Slavic show and tell items will be encouraged but not mandatory. 

September 22: Physical culture demonstration 

Description: Students will be provided with the names of exercises and then prompted to guess what exercises the LA is showing as well perform these exercises themselves.  

September 29: Going outside 

Description: We will walk outside and observe the common objects, while walking around. The students will be prompted to describe what they see 

Oct 6: Riddles

Description: Students will be prompted to solve popular Russian riddles 

Oct 20: Taboo

Description: Students will be prompted to play a game where they take out a card with a word that they need to make people guess what the word is and other words, that they are not allowed to use to explain this word 

Oct 27: Job application

Description: Students will be prompted to create an applicant account in pairs through a Russian job search website, focusing on having their name, address, and other necessary details right, making sure that they get it.  

Nov 3: Slavic mythological creatures roleplay 

Description: Students will be demonstrated how to make a card-based soothsaying and then allowed to do it themselves, in pairs  

Nov 10: Soothsaying 

Description: We will learn how to make a delicious Russian dessert made with condensed milk. 

Nov 17: Cities “game” 

Description: Students will be prompted to name a city that starts with a letter from last letter of a previous city, but also explaining whether the toponym provided is actually a and/or an interesting fact about it 

Nov 24: “Diplomacy” game 

Description: Students will be taught how to play Diplomacy, a game that prompts the players to engage in extensive communication to convince others to move in their favor to win, by engage in negotiations using logical argumentation. The students will be prompted to engage in such through interactive means of the game 

Dec 1: Activity – what to say to the authorities 

Description: Students will be prompted in pairs to role-play in pairs as an authority figure (a policeman, an immigration officer) and a person who is stopped by them 

Dec 8: Spy “game” 

Description: The students will play a game of “Spy”, in which one of the players does not know the word and the rest do, and the people who know the word are trying to figure out who doesn’t by asking each other yes/no questions, related to this word, while the person who doesn’t know the word is trying to figure it out and not get caught