Back to School

A Grade 6 Russian Language topic: «Back to school» (pp. 4–6). The first day of the school year: the children came to school with flowers, in their best clothes. New words: оживлённо, успе́х. жела́ть / пожела́ть is followed by a word answering чего?: здоро́вья, успе́хов, уда́чи. An extract from N. Nosov's story «Витя Малеев в школе и дома»: over the holidays Vitya got out of the habit of studying and could not answer when the teacher checked the multiplication table, but at home he went over it and next day answered by heart. Set phrases: бра́ться за де́ло (to get down to work), как сле́дует (properly, as one should), без запи́нки отве́чу (I will answer without hesitating). Three verbs: вы́учить (to learn something yourself, by heart), научи́ть (to teach someone), научи́ться (to learn oneself).