Review of the tutorial: Novikova O., Tuluzakova O., Shtandenko U. Ukrainian as a foreign language. Preparation for test, training tasks. Intermediate level (O. Novikova (ed.). Mykolaiv : Publishing House of Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, 2017

Abstract

Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University has published a tutorial “Ukrainian as a Foreign Language. Preparation for Test, Training Tasks. Intermediate Level”. The tutorial is addressed to adults who study Ukrainian for daily communication, have reached the appropriate level of language proficiency regardless of the forms and conditions of education and want to improve the already acquired knowledge of Ukrainian as a foreign language. It can be used to prepare for the exam to determine the level of language proficiency, for certain forms of control of the main types of speech activity, as an additional material for the study of conversation topics of everyday and socio-cultural orientation. The key-answers should not only facilitate the work of the teacher but also help to independently test the student’s knowledge. The tutorial is clearly structured: it contains 20 sections devoted to various areas of daily communication built mainly on the materials of electronic editions of the modern Ukrainian press. They cover not only the traditional circle of topics and situations, such as “Education”, “Health”, “Work”, “Hobbies”, etc. but also new ones, such as “Business”, “Finance”, “Modern technologies” and so on. The manual includes the actual problem texts (“What salary Ukrainians want to get”, “Ukraine as Europe in miniature”, “Ukrainian nature has something to surprise”, “5 myths of Ukrainians about the European Union”, “More than 85 % of drivers in Ukraine do not use safety belts”, “Interesting about the oldest Ukrainian cities”, etc.), which distinguishes it from other similar editions. The unquestioning advantage of a reviewed publication is the professional audio recording of texts relating to topics (part 1), short adverts (part 2), and tasks to them (on a CD attached to the manual). The materials of the tutorial have been tested by the students of the Munich Institute of Slavonic Philology of the University of Ludwig-Maximilian during the teaching of the discipline “Ukrainian as a Foreign Language”.Матеріал надійшов 14.06.2018