4.3 More alphabet practice

Activity 4

15 minutes

Now let’s practise reading letters я, ю, є. Remember that they sound:

  1. like а, у, е [a, u, e]after soft consonants;
  2. like two sounds [ya], [yu] and [ye] after vowels or at the beginning of words.

Read each name and then listen to the recording to check you have read it correctly. You can use the pause button if necessary. In this activity, you speak first.

Таня, Тетяна, Вікторія, Марія, Єва, Юлія, Юля.

Audio 35

Answer

There are model answers on the recording and a written version in the transcript.

Now practise reading я in some words you have learned this week. Pronounce each word and then listen to the recording to check you have read it correctly. You can use the pause button if necessary. In this activity, you speak first.

Вітальня, спальня, кухня, їдальня.

Audio 36

Answer

There are model answers on the recording and a written version in the transcript.

Activity 5

10 minutes

Match each group of Ukrainian words with their transliteration.

Він, вона, воно, вони.

Vin, vona, vono, vony.

Київ, Крим, Харків, Суми.

Kyiv, Krym, Kharkiv, Sumy

Метро, коментар, характер, мова, урок, університет.

Metro, komentar, kharakter, mova, urok, universytet.

Using the following two lists, match each numbered item with the correct letter.

  1. Він, вона, воно, вони.

  2. Київ, Крим, Харків, Суми.

  3. Метро, коментар, характер, мова, урок, університет.

  1. Vin, vona, vono, vony.

  2. Kyiv, Krym, Kharkiv, Sumy

  3. Metro, komentar, kharakter, mova, urok, universytet.

The correct answers are:
  • 1 =
  • 2 =
  • 3 =

Answer

The matching pairs are:

Він, вона, воно, вони. Vin, vona, vono, vony.

Київ, Крим, Харків, Суми. Kyiv, Krym, Kharkiv, Sumy. (They are all places in Ukraine).

Метро, коментар, характер, мова, урок, університет. Metro, komentar, kharakter, mova, urok, universytet. (Tube, comment, character, language, lesson, University).