Russian language: successful start — successful finish. Elementary and basic levels. Practical test book of Russian as a foreign language for school children

It’s the first practical test book designed for the school pupils studying Russian as a foreign language. The book presents a set of tests and tasks in the test form to help the pupils  to  check their language skills and the communicative abilities  which are necessary for foreign pupils who want to communicate with native speakers of Russian in the situations of everyday life, both in Russia and other countries and via Internet. The material of the book corresponds to elementary and basic levels of the European scale and described in the European language portfolio. There are two sections in the book. The first section presents tests of elementary level and in the second section there are test of the basic level. The sections are structured as follows: the first part of every section contains training tasks in the test form. In the second part there are the examples of the examination test blocks. All these tests can be used not only for preparation for the certified test examinations, but also for independent studies (all tasks are supplied by instructions and keys)