Film lessons as a multifaceted form of studying Russian language and culture in summer school for Polish students

Abstract

The article summarizes the experience of conducting film lessons for Polish students studying the Russian language. At the film lessons on the film Silvery Lily of the Valley students of advanced level mastered lexical paradigms, Russian slang, emotional conversational constructions, discussed the development of the main characters. At the film lessons on the adaptation of the poem by N. Gogol Dead Souls a multi-faceted historical commentary took place, and the problem of the embodiment of Gogol’s poem in the cinema was discussed. In the lesson for the students of the basic level the stories from the children’s humorous magazine Yeralash were analyzed and the nature of the comic problem were considered. The film lessons proved to be a multifaceted form of language classes, which allows to touch on both linguistic issues and the problems of other humanities.