International competition “Russian Teddy Bear. International competition in linguistics Little Bear linguistics for everyone

Among the numerous competitions for schoolchildren, the international Olympiad “Russian Bear Cub - Linguistics for Everyone” is very popular. Over the years, the number of participants has increased from several tens of thousands to several million in 2017-2018. In addition to Russia, this Olympiad is also held in other countries of the world. The greatest interest in it is shown by Russian-speaking residents of the so-called “post-Soviet space” (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia, etc.).

Organizers

“Russian Bear” has been held since 2000 jointly by several organizations, in particular:

Slovo LLC;
LLC "Igra";
"Vyatka Center for Continuing Education";
“Center for additional education of gifted schoolchildren” (Kirov).

According to established tradition, the scientific supervision and general support of the competition is provided by the Institute of Linguistics at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU, Moscow).

Mission of the competition

The main goal of “Russian Bear” is to provoke interest in the Russian language among young people and improve the literacy of the younger generation. In addition, the founders of the Olympiad claim that it helps prepare for exams. Separately, competition games with the same name are held for school teachers, as well as for people studying Russian as a foreign language. The central organizing committee of the competition, which is based in Kirov, includes employees of the Russian State University for the Humanities, leading linguists of the country, and candidates of philological sciences. They are also members of the Methodological Commission, which develops test items.

Requirements for participants

All interested schoolchildren, starting from the second grade, are allowed to participate in the “Russian Bear Cub” in 2018-2019. First graders can try their hand at it privately. The Olympiad is held in educational institutions that have been authorized by the central or regional organizing committee of the Russian Bear Cub. For official registration, the status of an educational institution (municipal school, non-state gymnasium, etc.) does not matter.

A mandatory requirement for potential participants is payment of a monetary contribution. Its size is geographically differentiated, usually it is 70-80 rubles (the largest amount for Moscow and some other territories). Orphans, disabled children and boarding school students are exempt from paying the mandatory financial contribution. They need to submit the relevant documents.

Important! This competition is not commercial; the fee paid is used to cover organizational costs, as well as to purchase valuable gifts for the winners and runners-up.

On the official website of the competition www.rm.kirov.ru you can find statistics and tasks for past years that will help schoolchildren, their parents and teachers better prepare for the Olympiad.

Organizational matters

“Russian Bear Cub” is held at a time, without preliminary selection, usually in mid-November. Competitions are held in registered educational institutions, in person. Participants must carefully fill out the forms with the competition tasks that were previously sent to the regions. They include test questions of three levels of difficulty with multiple choice answers (28 questions for elementary grades, 30 for all others). The tasks differ markedly depending on the age of the participants. A total of five target groups have been identified:

students in grades 2-3;
students in grades 4-5;
students in grades 6-7;
students in grades 8-9;
students in grades 10-11.

Questions require students not only to have formal knowledge, but also to have imagination, creativity, intuition and even a sense of humor. To answer most questions correctly, in-depth study of the Russian language and literature is not necessary.

The exact date of the competition is set in advance. The time allotted for completing tasks is usually about one and a half hours. During the competition, competitors should not consult with each other or receive any tips from adults. You cannot use dictionaries, textbooks, cheat sheets or any electronic devices. Violations of the rules of the Olympiad result in disqualification.

The work is checked by a special evaluation commission consisting of professional philologists, linguists, and research staff of the Russian State University for the Humanities. In January-February 2019, the central organizing committee will announce the results of the Olympiad, which will be sent to all educational institutions participating in the competition. The laureates are given diplomas and also given various prizes (mugs with competition emblems, medals, badges, key rings, pens, brochures, etc.). Each participant is entitled to receive a commemorative certificate.

To discuss controversial situations, competition results and other topics, the competition organizers created a special Internet forum cdoosh.ru/forum/index.php. Anyone can register on this resource and ask questions that interest them.

Most of the Russian Bear participants do not become professional philologists or linguists. The organizers of this gaming competition do not pursue such goals. However, the Olympiad gives children and teenagers the opportunity to test themselves, test their knowledge of the Russian language, and overcome common fears and phobias before the inevitable exams. The acquired experience and skills of the “Russian Bear Cub” participant will certainly be useful in further studies and for a successful career in the future.

Today, the fifteenth of November, the “Russian Bear Cub” competition is taking place, in which schoolchildren of different age categories took part.

The questions were divided into 5 groups - 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 and 10-11 grades.

Russian bear cub 2018-2019 answers 2-3-4-5 grades

In this article we provide questions for younger groups, from grades 2 to 5, for your reference. As information becomes available, the article will be updated.

So, questions:

1 How many numbers from 1 to 100 are called words consisting of three letters?

Answer options given

A- one B- two C- three D- four D- five

2 Which pair of words need to be swapped?

A) scissors - pencils B) skis - sleds B) rakes - shovels
D) beads - rings D) swings - carousels

3 In what lines did the sparrow from G. Kruzhkov’s poem “How a Sparrow Composed Poems” make mistakes?

I only love sparrows (1)

I don't like pigeons! (2)

I only love a sparrow, (3)

I don't like pigeons! (4)

SO DIFFICULT, eh? (5)

a) in all b) only in (2) c) only in (3) d) only in (2) and (3) e) there are no errors in any lines

4 What is not necessarily red?

A) red pen B) red tomato C) red shirt D) red blood E) red ink

The guys played, choosing characters with names starting with the same letter as their names:

— Alisa Selezneva

— Baron Munchausen

— Vitya Maleev

- Mary Poppins

- Tom Sawyer

5 Who broke this rule?

A) Anya B) Borya C) Vitya D) Masha D) Tanya

6 Looking at pictures with animals, little Leva calls one cub the word child. Who is this baby's mother?

A. horse B. pig C. goat D. cow D. sheep

7 Some smartphones offer to replace the text with a picture: for example, you start typing the word home, and as soon as you type house, a picture of a house appears. If you continue to type the word, the picture disappears. When I type what word, no picture appears?

a) mitten b) which c) nose d) slurp e) Russian

8 Is this writer’s real name Grinevsky? And we know him as...

A) Fyodor Dostoevsky B) Alexander Griboedov C) Apollo Grigoriev D) Alexander Green D) Gennady Gor

9 Michael Rosen's poem “Let's Go Catching Bears” describes the path of the heroes, accompanied by the following sounds: 1) Rushing, rustling! gryas, 5) Uuuuu, ewww!

In what order do the heroes overcome obstacles?

A) forest, grass, swamp, blizzard, river

B) grass, river, swamp, forest, blizzard

C) forest, swamp, river, blizzard, grass

D) forest, river, swamp, blizzard, grass

D) grass, river, forest, swamp, blizzard

10 By what search on the Internet can you find a machine for making pies?

A) Dasha’s pies

B) Sasha’s pies

B) Machine pies

D) Misha's pies

D) Yasha’s pies

11 My name is also .... So you will have to stay... So as not to be confused. We missed two names in this passage. What book is it taken from?

a) “Sasha and Masha”

b) “Sasha and Shura”

c) “Ruslan and Lyudmila”

d) “About Vera and Anfisa”

e) “Chuk and Gek”

12 We came across four examples at the beginning of sentences, and one in the middle. Which?

(A) Doctor Pilyulkin

(B) Robinson Crusoe

(B) Captain Vrungel

(D) Count of Monte Cristo

(D) Queen Margot

13 Czech and Russian are related languages. What do the Czech words mean: letenka, letec, letiste, letadlo (read as: letenka, letec, letishte, letadlo)

A) plane ticket, airport, airplane, pilot

B) plane, pilot, airport plane ticket

B) airport, plane ticket, pilot, plane

D) plane ticket, pilot, airport, plane

D) plane, airport, plane ticket, pilot

14 Everyone left, and I stayed... How can you not finish this sentence?

A) alone B) alone C) alone D) alone E) all options A - D are suitable to complete this sentence

15 In Russian language class, third graders studied nouns and played a game. Everyone had to show the object according to certain rules. Kolya showed a pencil, Tanya - a notebook, Sveta - a bag, Petya - a pencil case. What did Ruslan show?

A) pen B) felt-tip pen B) backpack D) schedule E) glue

16 Pairs of words are given: gaze-plaster, nose-opt, south-poison. What other couple can be included in this list?

A) knock - bush B) steam - mouth C) wave - mane D) time - Arab D) spinning top - iambic

17 What is the least likely thing you hear about in math lessons?

A) about units B) about tens B) about hundreds D) about thousands D) about numbers

18 Little Sveta tells her mother: Today my grandmother and I saw an evil train. That is, not evil, but this one, what’s his name...

A) terrible B) terrible C) vindictive D) insidious E) bloodthirsty

19 In medieval images of St. Agnes, as a rule, one can also see a young domestic animal. Which one?

A) sheep B) goats C) cows D) donkeys E) dogs

20 John divided verbs ending in -sti into four groups:

1) row, scrape

2) wander, lead

3) shake, carry

4) weave, revenge

He placed a letter above each group for convenience. List these letters in group order.

A) b, d, t, s B) b, d, s, t C) l, d, s, t D) l, w, s, sch D) l, w, s, t

21 Pierre is learning Russian and writing words in two columns.

beetle ———– cancer

bull ———– tooth

mushroom ———- grandson

Where will he write down the words whale, raft, sign?

A) whale - in the left column, raft and sign - in the right column

B) whale and raft - in the left column, sign - in the right column

B) raft - in the left column, whale and sign - in the right column

D) sign - in the left column, whale and raft - in the right column

D) raft and sign - in the left column, whale - in the right column

22 I was sitting by the river... Finish this phrase so that it has an interesting property.

A) and waited for the boatman

B) and ate radishes

B) and thought about dinosaurs

D) and caught fish

D) and listened to jazz

Update:

1. In M. Ibragimbekov’s book “Let him stay with us” we read: “Grandmother wished us good appetite, and we began to have dinner.” What do they say now?
(A) good appetite, (B) bon appetit, (glorious appetite, (D) sweet appetite, (D) great appetite.

2. Which of these letters does not Russian names begin with?
(A) A, (B) E, (C) I, (D) Y , (D) Yu

3. Find the meaningless word in this series:
(D) nameless, (D) last .

4. Neither in a fairy tale can I say – nor….describe. What did we miss?
(A) poems, (B) words, () paints, (D) pen , (D) with an axe.

5. How many numbers from 1 to 100 are called words consisting of three letters?
(A) one, (B) two, (At three o'clok , (D) four, (D) five

6. A person has more than two of them. What is this?
(A) eyelashes

8. In the cartoon “A Kitten Named Woof,” the kitten Woof talks to a big black cat:
- Who is the owner?
- Master? The owner is... this... Eh, can you really tell me?
- Where can I get him, master? Where are they found, these owners?
How will be correct?
(A) owners, (B) owner , (C) hosts, (D) hosts, (D) hosts

9. A coin of 15 kopecks used to be called a five-altyn coin. What kind of coin was called altyn back then?
(A) 1 kopeck, (B) 2 kopecks, (B) 3 kopecks , (D) 5 kopecks, (E) 10 kopecks.

(A) large, (B) index, (C) middle, (D) unnamed , (D) last.

(D) linen, (D) laziness.

(B) There are all kinds of people walking around here. (D) I’m surprised every time. (D) I watched without any interest.

(A) eyelashes , (B) eyebrows (C) eyes, (D) ears, (E) cheeks

(A) Mitka saluted: ...! (V. Belov)
(B) I shake your hand tightly and…. (S. Marshak)

(D) When the father passes, he jumps up and shouts like a soldier -..! (I. Shmelev)

(A) a, (B) o, (C) i, (D) s (D)e

(D) liar, (D) liar.

8. The name of the insect dragonfly hides the name of the animal - goat. What word does not hide another living creature?
(A) lark, (B) buffalo, (B) platypus , (D) cockroach, (E) porcupine.

(A) shop

I grabbed my milk and left the store. These two sentences are missing two letters. How should I fill in the blanks?
(B) e, t, i, d, (D) e, t, i, t (D) i, t, e, d.

(A) 20, (B) 30, (C) 40, (D) 50, (E) 60

(G) Alexander Green (D) Gennady Gor.

(D) what

14. Four little black little imps drew a drawing in black ink. Let's arrange the words of this tongue twister in alphabetical order. What word will be the fifth? (Here e and ё are considered different letters.)
(A) four

(A) alone, (B) alone (C) alone (D) alone, (E) all options (A) – (D) come up to complete this sentence.

1. Find the meaningless word in this series
(A) large, (B) index, (C) middle, (D) unnamed , (D) last.

2. Zhenya read that shirts are made from linen. What is this material called in the nominative case?
(A) flax, (B) flax, (C) flax, (D) linen , (D) laziness.

3. In which sentence can you replace every with everyone?
(A) They chatted about all sorts of things. (B) Call just in case. (B) There are all kinds of people walking around here . (D) I’m surprised every time. (D) I watched without any interest.

4. A person has more than two of them. What is this?
(A) eyelashes , (B) eyebrows (C) eyes, (D) ears, (E) cheeks

5. In what example is it missing not I wish you health, but I wish you health?
(A) Mitka saluted:…. (V. Belov)
(B) I shake your hand tightly and…. (S. Marshak)
(B)…, Comrade General. (I. Grekova).
(D) The sergeant major says “...”. (M. Lermontov).
(D) When the father passes, he jumps up and shouts like a soldier -....! (I. Shmelev)

6. Which letter cannot be inserted into the spelling p_lit to form a word?
(A) a, (B) o, (C) i, (D) s (D)e

7. What word does not exist?
(A) liar, (B) liar, (C) liar, (D) liar , (D) liar.

8. The name of the insect dragonfly hides the name of the animal - goat. What word does not hide another living creature?
(A) lark, (B) buffalo, (B) platypus, (D) cockroach, (E) porcupine.

9. Which word in the modern language does not have a suffix?
(A) shop , (B) book, (C) notebook, (D) door, (E) stove.

10. The builders laid the foundation and prepared the b-on
I grabbed a can of milk and left the store. These two sentences are missing two letters. How should I fill in the blanks?
(A) e, t, e, d (B) e, t, e, t, (B) e, t, i, d , (D) e, t, i, t (D) i, t, e, d.

11. The name of which number, according to one version, comes from an ancient Russian word meaning “Bundle of sable skins”?
(A) 20, (B) 30, (B) 40 , (G) 50, (D) 60

12. The real name of this writer is Grinevsky. And we know him as...
(A) Fyodor Dostoevsky. (B) Alexander Griboedov, (C) Apollon Grigoriev, (G) Alexander Green (D) Gennady Gor.

13. In original Russian words, i.e. combinations of letters not borrowed from other languages...
(A) chya, (B) chyu (c) cho, (D) cheh, (D) what

15. Everyone left and I stayed... How can you not finish this sentence?
(A) alone, (B) alone (C) alone (D) alone , (E) All options (A) – (D) are suitable to complete this sentence.

16. Here is a quatrain by Julian Tuvim translated by Sergei Mikhalkov:
Rub with a sponge and washcloth!
Be patient - no problem!
Both ink and jam will be washed away by soap and water.
How many words are there in the nominative case?
(A) two (B) three (C) four (D) five (E) seven

17. Czech and Russian are related languages. What do the Czech words mean: letenke, letec, lettiste, letadlo& (Read as letenka, letec, letishte, letadlo.)
(A) plane ticket, airport, plane, pilot;
(B) plane, pilot, plane ticket, airport;
(B) airport, plane ticket, pilot, plane
(D) plane ticket, pilot, airport, plane.
(D) plane, airport, plane ticket, pilot.

18. We came across four examples at the beginning of sentences, and one in the middle of a sentence. Which?
(A) Doctor Pilyulkin, (B) Robinson Crusoe , (c) Captain Vrungel (D) Count of Monte Cristo, (D) Queen Margot.

19. Here are couplets from A. Shibaev’s book about letters and words:
On the yellowed grass
The lion drops its leaves.
They sat down on the spoon and off they went!
Along the river back and forth.
In two words, instead of the correct consonants, others took over. Find the words, replace the incorrect consonants with the correct ones, and choose words with those correct consonants.
(A) soot, (B) water, (C) salt, (D) ox, (D) garden.

20. In the magazine “Murzilka” for 2002 we read:
They are in charge here, except for Santa Claus and Mother Winter, a beautiful maiden<…>. Some smile at guests in a souvenir shop, some fluff up a magical feather bed in Grandfather’s bedchamber.
What is a bedchamber?
(A) living room, (B) dining room, (B) bedroom , (D) bathroom, (E) pantry.

21. The names of some letters of the Italian alphabet are given: b – di, m – emme, k – erre, p – pi/ What are the letters b, n, r called in Italian?
(A) bi, ri, ti (B) bi, enne, ette, (B) bi, enne, ti, (D) ebbe, ni, ette; (D) ebbe, enne, ette

22. John divided verbs ending in -sti into four groups:
1) row, scrape, 2) plod, lead, 3) shake, carry, 4) weave, revenge.
He placed a letter above each group for convenience. List these letters in letter order.
(A) b, d, t, s (B) b, d, s, t , (B) p, d, s, t, (D) l, w, s, sch, (D) l, w, s, t

23. Pairs of words are given: gaze - plaster, nose - opt, south - poison. What other couple can you add to the list?
(A) knock - bush, (B) steam - mouth, (C) wave - mane, (D) time - Arab, (D) spinning top - iambic

24. Many verbs in the past tense end in -lal, -ral, -nal, for example 6 put, knew, removed. But of the combinations -lol, -mol, -nol and -rol, verbs in the past tense can only end in two. Which ones?
(A) on –lol and –mol, (B) on –lol and –nol, (C) on –lol and –rol
(D) on -mol and -roll. (D) on -nol and -roll.

25. In the poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky “Good attitude towards horses” there is a line “- Mushroom. Rob. Coffin. Rude." How many different sounds are there between the first and second, second and third, third and fourth words in this line?
(A) 4, 2, 1, (B) 3, 2, 1 , (B) 2, 2, 2, (D) 2, 1, 2 (E) 2, 1, 1

26. During a Russian language lesson, third-graders studied nouns and played a game. Everyone had to show the item according to certain rules. Kolya showed a pencil, Tanya showed a notebook. Sveta - a bag, Petya - a pencil case. And what did Roma show?
(A) pen, B felt-tip pen, (B) backpack , (D) schedule, (E) glue.

27. In Vasily Aksenov’s story “My Grandfather is a Monument,” a Soviet ship enters the port of the fictional island of Empyrean. Local residents greet him with the words: Vilcamez sovet legopikor bu legopikor Empyrean! What does this phrase mean?
(A) The sailors of the Empyrean wish the Soviet sailors a happy voyage!
(B) Glory to the Soviet people - friends of the island of Empyrean1
(B) Great Soviet sailors, welcome to the Empyrean!

(D) Greetings to Soviet football players from empyrean football players!
(D) Congratulations to the Soviet ship on behalf of the inhabitants of the Empyrean!

28. I was sitting by the river... Finish this phrase so that it has an interesting property.
(A) and waited for the boatman. (B) and ate radishes , (C) and thought about dinosaurs, (D) and fished, (E) and listened to jazz.

29. In medieval images of Saint Agnes, as a rule, you can also see a baby domestic animal. Which one?
(A) sheep , (B) goats, (D) donkeys, (E) dogs.

30. Pierre learns Russian and writes words in two columns:
beetle cancer
bull tooth
mushroom grandson
… ….
Where will he write down the words whale, ploto, sign?
(A) whale - in the left slot, raft and sign - in the right,
(B) whale and raft - in the left column, sign - in the right,
(c) the raft - in the left column, the whale and sign - in the right.
(D) sign - in the left column, whale and raft - in the right.
(D) raft and sign - in the left column, whale - in the right.

For separate tasks and questions for different age categories, see the following articles.

The Russian Bear Cub competition is considered the “little brother” of the popular and beloved international Kangaroo competition. The Ayb Educational Foundation is the exclusive organizer of the “Russian Bear: Linguistics for Everyone” competition in Armenia (since 2010) and Artsakh (since 2011). The main goal of the competition is to arouse general interest in the Russian language, to make it more attractive to children, showing all the charm and richness of the Russian language.

Competition "Russian Bear 2019" took place in Armenia November 14. Schoolchildren from grades 2-12 from 303 schools from all regions of Armenia and 17 Artsakh schools.

You can download tasks and answers for “Russian Bear 2019”

Competition materials (you can download below)

We inform you that participants of the competition can make payments through terminals Telcell and Easy Pay and at VTB Bank. In case of payment through Telcell terminals, first specify the code of your school.

Payment materials:

Tasksand competition answers"Russian Bear" from 2014 to 2018. you can download

The “Russian Bear” competition helps spread the Russian language in Armenia and contributes to the development and improvement of linguistic thinking in children, making them want to learn new foreign languages.

In 2017-2018, all schools in the Russian Federation will host the “Russian Bear Cub - Linguistics for Everyone” Olympiad, designed to introduce students to the world of linguistics in a new and interesting format, different from the traditional memorization of rules and performing monotonous tasks. What is this event, and what should teachers, parents and children prepare for?

This international gaming Olympiad in the Russian language, established back in 2000, covers not only the territory of Russia and neighboring countries. It also takes place in such states as:

Japan;
India;
Greece;
Israel;
Poland;
Cuba;
Great Britain;
Mongolia, etc.

Important! The day of the intellectual competition is the same for all Russian schools, gymnasiums and lyceums. It usually falls in autumn, namely in the first half of November. This academic year the event will take place on the 15th of this month (Wednesday).

The organizers of the Olympiad are centers for additional education of gifted schoolchildren, Igra LLC and Slovo LLC, and its scientific supervisors are professors from the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian State University for the Humanities.

“Russian Bear” 2017-2018 will not change traditions, and, as before, will be for students:

A game that includes non-standard tasks and tests the child’s ability to think logically, show ingenuity and analyze.
The opportunity to add at least a participant certificate to your portfolio, and at maximum a distinctive certificate or diploma. Such achievements, issued in a uniform manner, can serve well when entering a university.
An event that is comfortable from the point of view of organizational aspects. To take part in it, you will not need to travel outside the walls of the educational institution, because the competition itself will find and come to interested children.

Important! Absolutely everyone should be allowed to participate in the competition, from 2nd to 11th grade. Teachers do not have the right to pre-select applicants or prohibit students from writing an Olympiad, even in cases where their current level of performance in the Russian language leaves much to be desired.

The event includes 5 parallel intellectual competitions, which are compiled and developed depending on the age of the participants. Thus, the same set of tasks awaits students:

2-3 grades.
4-5 grades.
6-7 grades.
8-9 grades.
10-11 grades.

The general verification procedure is as follows:

After writing the test, the completed forms are delivered to the territorial organizing committee, and from there they are sent to the capital.
In January/February, educational institutions receive documents indicating what place each specific student took in the all-Russian list in his age category.
At the end, the participants who score the most points are awarded prizes.

The 2017-2018 “Russian Bear Cub” competition will also be held in colleges and technical schools whose educational course programs include professional language learning. The Olympiad will not bypass the teaching community either; for its representatives it will take place on March 11 and 12, 2018.

Structure and organizational aspects

For representatives of elementary, middle and high schools there is a test consisting of 30 (28 for students of 2nd and 3rd grades) entertaining questions. The complexity of the exercises varies, but here no one will oblige the child to explain his thoughts and write out lengthy solutions on several pages. You will need to submit a special form in which you will need to circle one letter from the 5 answer options proposed in each task in 75 minutes (1 hour and 15 minutes).

How to take part in the event? For the current year, this issue is no longer relevant - the fact is that the acceptance of applications ended on October 13. Registration, the cost of which ranged from 70 to 80 rubles depending on the region, was carried out by class teachers and teachers of educational institutions. To participate in the 2018-2019 school year, children will also need to contact them.

Preparation

You can view the list of tasks for preparing for the Russian Bear Olympiad 2017-2018 on the official website rm.kirov.ru in the “Tasks” tab located to the left of the main window. On the newly opened page, you will be able to download both the tasks themselves and the answers to them in order to preliminary assess your own language level and get an idea of the essence of the event.

Those who claim a higher result will need to put more effort into preparation. In this case, it will be impossible to do without:

extracurricular reading of additional fiction;
conscientious and thoughtful study of the school curriculum in the subject;
love and respect for language and interest in the initial aspects of linguistics.

Objective benefit

One of the main positive features of the “Russian Bear” 2017-2018 will be that, as before, it will provide the student with the opportunity to get acquainted with the format of the official examination certifications awaiting him in the future - the OGE and the Unified State Exam. It is this annual Olympiad that helps overcome the fear of serious work. The materials for the assignments, the forms and principles for filling them out, and observing the allotted time as one of the prerequisites frighten the child the less, the more often he encounters this.

In addition, there are no winners and losers here - each student can calmly and measuredly track their own progress from year to year. Regardless of what score out of a possible 100 a participant receives, the competition will be an excellent help for training his mind, developing memory, erudition, thinking and acquiring qualitatively new knowledge.

Video about the popular language competition for children:

We invite you to take part in the next competition "Russian Bear - linguistics for everyone" . It will take place on Thursday, November 14, 2013. All interested students in grades 2-11 can participate, without any pre-selection. The game takes place in five age groups: 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 and 10-11 grades. Each of them will be offered its own version (from 28 to grades 2-3, and from 30 to the rest) of tasks in the Russian language and linguistics, most of which are within the capabilities of an ordinary school student. If desired, first-graders can also try their hand (according to options for grades 2-3). There is no need to write solutions: just choose the correct answer from the five proposed options and mark its number on a special form. 1 hour and 15 minutes are allotted for work, so no one will have time to get tired. The results of the competition are summarized separately by class. By February 5, schools will receive reports with the results of their participants and the place of each in the all-Russian list of their parallel, all participants in the game will receive corresponding certificates, and the best will receive prizes.

Competition-game “Russian Bear - linguistics for everyone” ( official site ) is the younger brother of the popular international mathematics competition “Kangaroo - Mathematics for Everyone”. “Little Bear” was first held in 2000 on the initiative of the Kirov Center for Additional Education of Gifted Schoolchildren with the support of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian State University for the Humanities and the Russian Organizing Committee “Kangaroo”.

Interest in the game is constantly growing. There are two reasons for the popularity of Little Bear. First of all, it's accessible. The game is held directly in schools, takes only about an hour and a half, and everyone can participate in it. There is no need to write down solutions - just select one of the five proposed answer options and mark its number on a special form; among the 30 tasks there are both difficult and very easy ones, so that almost every participant manages to complete at least several of them correctly. Secondly, the compilers try to select tasks that require not only (and not so much) knowledge of the rules, but also general culture, logic and reflection, and sometimes a sense of humor. After all, the main goal of the game is to show the beauty of the Russian language, to overcome the idea of it as a formal and boring subject.

The methodological commission of the competition works at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian State University for the Humanities. The main authors of the problems are teachers, graduate students and graduates of the Russian State University for the Humanities and Moscow State University. The Institute of Linguistics is holding a seminar “Genres and Types of Linguistic Problems”, one of the practical goals of which is to compile and discuss problems for this competition. The seminar participants are willing to do this; many students have already managed to create good problems.

The competition tasks are intended for schoolchildren of different ages: from 2nd to 11th grade. The compilers are preparing 5 sets of tasks: for grades 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 and 10-11. For the youngest - 26 (since 2009 28) problems, for other age groups - 30. In recent years, the online competition “Russian Teddy Bear for Teachers” has also been organized and is becoming popular, for which the methodological committee is preparing 12 difficult problems.

The Little Bear test problems differ significantly from self-sufficient Olympiad problems not only in type, but also in compactness and execution time (each problem takes several minutes to solve). Among them there are some very elementary ones, and some that experts can puzzle over. All problems compiled for the competition are carefully checked by members of the methodological commission; many of them have to be rejected, since the problems must satisfy a number of different parameters. After checking the solutions to the problems using a computer, a statistical analysis of the solutions is carried out, which shows the level of complexity of the problem and identifies typical errors, which is taken into account when writing solutions and comments published in collections, as well as when drawing up versions of next year’s problems.

Here are just a few examples of tasks:

2. The words are given: everything, nothing, no one, why, hollow.
How many of these can be understood as genitive forms?
(A) one; (B) two; (At three o'clok; (D) four; (D) five.

3. Find the subjects in the phrases:
(1) The torero put on the sombrero and (2) The sombrero put on the torero.
(A) (1) bullfighter and (2) sombrero;
(B) (1) sombrero and (2) bullfighter;
(B) (1) bullfighter and (2) bullfighter;
(D) (1) sombrero and (2) sombrero;
(D) there are no subjects.

4. Which of the five words listed is redundant?
(A) Swedish; (B) Romanian; (B) Italian; (D) Japanese; (D) loin.

5. Which of the five words listed is redundant?
(A) monkey; (B) hare; (B) lioness; (D) actress; (D) Japanese.

6. We read from A. S. Pushkin:
In scales, like the heat of grief,
The knights are coming in pairs,
And, shining with gray hair,
The guy is walking ahead
And he leads them to the city.
How did the knights go?
(A) one at a time; (B) two by two; (B) in threes; (D) eleven each; (D) thirty-three each.

7. The city of Velikiye Luki received this name due to the fact that:
(A) was famous for making bows;
(B) in its vicinity the onion grew especially large;
(B) the city was glorified by its founder Luka the Great and his son Luka Lukich;
(D) it is the headquarters of the Lukoil company;
(D) does the river on which it stands have large bends?

Problem solutions

1. To solve this problem correctly, you must not confuse sounds with letters. Let's see what sounds these words are made of. To do this, let’s write down their transcription: gender [gender], husband [mush], shey [shej’], spruce, ditch [rof]. Now let’s read the sounds in reverse order: [lop] - forehead, [noise] - noise, - eat, [l'ej] - lei. There were four words, but there is no word pronounced as [for] in the Russian language. Answer: 4 (D).

2. All these words can be understood as forms of the genitive case: all the Rabbit’s honey was not enough for Winnie the Pooh; Winnie the Pooh was not afraid of anything; Piglet had no one to wait for; Little Roo ran away from his father's house; Owl was missing some hollow object. Answer: (D).

3. The words torero and sombrero have the same form both as a subject and as a direct object. In Russian, both the subject and the object can appear either before or after the predicate, so sometimes in such cases ambiguity arises: the phrase Mother loves her daughter can be understood in two ways. However, in these sentences, ambiguity does not arise, since the subject of the verb put on must be an animate noun, and the object must be an inanimate one. Since the animate noun in the data is bullfighter, it will be the subject of both sentences. Answer: (B).

4. The words Swedish, Romanian, Italian, Japanese designate female persons of the corresponding nationality. The word Korean does not mean nationality, but a type of meat (residents of Korea are called not Koreans, but Koreans). It is redundant in meaning. Answer: (D).

5. The last four nouns denote a female creature and are correlated with nouns denoting a male creature: hare - hare, lioness - lion, actress - actor, Japanese - Japanese. The noun monkey denotes an animal regardless of gender: there are no separate nouns denoting male and female monkeys in the Russian language. It is redundant in meaning. Answer: (A).

6. What does the outdated word “cheta” mean? These are two objects or two persons, a couple. Remember such cognate words as even, combination. In this excerpt from “The Tale of Tsar Saltan,” the knights walk in pairs, two at a time. Answer: (B).

7. We will act by elimination. It is clear that the answer is not G (the name of the city is immeasurably older than the Lukoil company) and not B (there was no Luka the Great in the history of Russia, and the city in this case would have had a name like “Velikoluksk”). Option A (the onion was born especially large) is unlikely: in this case, the city would most likely receive a name like “Good [i.e. e. good] Bows.” When choosing between bow makers and river bends, let’s take into account the enormous importance that rivers played in the life of the ancient Slavs. Answer: (D).

Competition problems with solutions and comments are published annually in separate brochures, and are also published in the Russian Language newspaper. You can read more about “Russian Bear Cub” at