A1

Hear and say your first greetings; learn the difference between a sound and a letter, and between vowels and consonants; read and write the first letter group in syllables and short words

Read words, then short sentences aloud, with most of the alphabet

Finish the alphabet; read and write words with the two-sound letters, ь, the apostrophe, дж / дз; hear hard vs soft

Use stress marks as a reading aid; statement vs question melody; first contact with unstressed е / и; recognise handwritten and italic letter shapes; divide words into syllables for line breaks

Introduce yourself and ask who someone is; common professions

Show a family photo and say who is who

Self-check: read aloud, greet, introduce yourself and family

Tell the gender of a noun and pick він / вона / воно, мій / моя / моє

Describe a thing with an agreeing adjective

Name colours; soft-group adjectives

Understand and say numbers for prices, age, phone numbers

Point at things: цей / той in three genders

Go from one to many: nominative plural

Self-check: describe, count, point

Say what you like doing: infinitive, люблю + infinitive

Conjugate first-conjugation verbs in the present

Conjugate second-conjugation verbs; tell the two apart

Say what you want, can and must do

Ask and answer simple questions; negate

Describe a morning routine with reflexive verbs

Self-check: say what you do, want, ask

Ask and tell the time

Use days, months, seasons and dates in set phrases

Talk about the weather and the natural world around you: animals, plants, landscape

Tell your day in order

Talk about leisure; invite someone

Self-check: time, week plan, weather

Choose у / в, і / й, з / із / зі

Say where something is: locative of nouns with agreeing adjectives

Name places in a city and say what is where

Say where you are going: accusative of direction; де vs куди

Get around: transport phrases

Ask for and follow directions

Say where you and things are from; compass points; at the border

Self-check: find your way

Name food and drink; say what Ukrainians eat

Say what you eat and drink: accusative, inanimate, with agreeing adjectives

Order and pay in a café

Ask prices and buy things: food, toiletries, stationery; weight and volume

Talk about people you see, know and think about: accusative, animate; мене / тебе / нас / вас; про + accusative

Self-check: order and buy

Address people by name: vocative

Ask someone to do something: imperative, ти and ви

Join ideas: і, а, але, бо, тому що

Build first complex sentences with що, де, коли — talking about your home: housing, rooms, furniture, what is where

Greet people on holidays; family and state holidays

Self-check: address, ask, connect

Say what happened: past tense and gender

Tell yesterday as a connected story

Say what will happen: compound future

Make plans and arrange to meet

Tell your life in three tenses

Say what hurts; at the pharmacy and doctor

Get help in an emergency

One full day in a Ukrainian city: everything together