A comprehensive study guide to accompany ‘Пиковая Дама’ for Russian A Level for Edexcel. The guide includes summaries of every chapter in the target language, with A Level language and grammar specifically built in. There are also questions for students to answer whilst reading ‘Пиковая Дама’ in class or at home. The questions could be used for homework tasks.

A PowerPoint and PowerPoint Quiz to introduce Russian and some cultural information about Russia. Would be suitable as an introduction to learning Russian language or could be used for language club, cultural enrichment, European Day of Languages, etc. No need to be a Russian specialist to use as all pronunciation is on the slides. Teacher notes also provided under slides. Also contains information for students to learn about Russia. Would likely take up to two lessons/sessions.

A study guide to Leviathan to support teaching the cultural topic at A Level Russian for Edexcel (2017). This should be used after watching Leviathan as a tool to help students understand more about the background of the film and how to begin to talk about key characters, scenes and cinematography. The PowerPoint is a mixture of English and Russian.

A lesson or study guide to use to support teaching an introduction to Glasnost and Perestroika as part of Theme 4 A Level Russian Edexcel (2016 onwards). The resource includes causes and conclusions of both Glasnost and Perestroika as well as some examples from past A Level Edexcel questions. Could be used to support teaching Theme 4 or as an independent study guide for students.

A writing mat to support students in written tasks for the Edexcel GCSE (2016 onwards) Russian exam. Includes verbs in three tenses, time phrases in three tenses and opinions. Could be printed and laminated for students to have in their books/on desks for writing tasks.

A study guide to support teaching of ‘Pikovaya Dama’ at A Level Russian (2016 onwards) Edexcel. This study guide includes summaries of each of the main characters in ‘Pikovaya Dama’: Germann, The Countess and Lizaveta Ivanovna. Can be used to teach alongside the book or as a study guide for students as an essay writing aid. All summaries are written in target language.

An in depth character analysis of Lizaveta Ivanovna to support studying ‘Pikovaya Dama’ as part of A Level Russian Edexcel. This will help students to begin to think analytically about the main characters in the book and there is a key question to answer by the end of the lesson. All of the lesson is in the target language.

Support for the Edexcel GCSE Russian (2016 onwards) Photo Card and Role Play parts of the Speaking Exam. This bundle contains a support mat for both Foundation and Higher students on answering the first Photo Card question, a PowerPoint on grammar and language needed to tackle the Role Play card with success and a conjugation/translation race game for students.

A set of ‘need to know’ basic language that can be laminated, cut out and hole punched for students to loop into keyrings and carry around with them for extra revision or vocabulary support in lessons and at home. Any extra vocabulary can also be easily added on to the keyring set.

An introduction to teaching Leviathan as part of the cultural topic for A Level Edexcel (2016 onwards) Russian. It includes tasks for students to complete during and after their first watching of the film. Students could do this independently or it could be used as a discussion point in the lesson following the first viewing of Leviathan. All questions and resources in English for this introductory lesson.