V Puti: Student Activities Manual
V Puti: Student Activities Manual is an integral part of the V Puti course and is designed for use alongside V Puti: Russian Grammar in Context. The structure matches the main textbook and provides a wealth of exercises and activities, either for class use or homework. This third edition offers a wider variety of exercises and activities which incorporate more recent language pedagogies.
This highly successful program assists in the development of learners’ listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills by presenting realistic settings, situations, and contexts. It consists of 12 chapters offering conversational exercises, various readings (biographies, poems, literature, and historical texts), and grammatical explanations and practice. All of these components reinforce Russian culture and history which enable students to understand the Russian language in context. The companion website to this course offers a wealth of resources and activities for both instructors and learners.
The flexible, modular structure of the V Puti course is designed to meet the needs of a wide variety of Russian programs and learners at intermediate or advanced level.
Anna Kudyma is Senior Lecturer in Russian and Ukrainian at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. She is the author of the textbook Russian: From Novice High to Intermediate and co-author of several other titles, including the second edition of V Puti. She holds an MA in Russian language pedagogy and a PhD in linguistics.
Olga Kagan was Professor of Russian at UCLA, USA.
Frank Miller was Professor of Russian at Columbia University, USA.
Michael Lavery is Assistant Professor of Russian at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He is a co-author (with Anna Kudyma, Frank Miller, and Olga Kagan) of Beginner’s Russian.