Kyiv – the heart of Kyivan Rus

Kievan Rus’ (Old East Slavic: Рѹ́сь (Rus‘), Рѹ́сьскаѧ землѧ (Rus’skaya zemlya), Latin: Rus(s)ia, Ruscia, Ruzzia, Rut(h)enia,) was a loose federation of East Slavic tribes in Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century, under the reign of the Rurik dynasty. The modern peoples of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine all claim Kievan Rus’ as their cultural ancestors, with Belarus and Russi deriving their names from it.

At its greatest extent in the mid-11th century, it stretched from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south and from the headwaters of the Vistula in the west to the Taman Peninsula in the east, uniting the majority of East Slavic tribes.

Good morning boys and girls! I’m glad to see you again!

Today at our lesson we have some rules.

Follow directions

Use kind words

Raise your hand to speak

Keep your hands and feet to yourself

Do your best!

Look at the pictures. What historical events they can be related to?

– So what is the subject of our lesson?

– Today we’ll have an unusual lesson: we’ll make travelling in time, revise history of Kyivan Rus, practice our listening, speaking and writing skills, we act it in pairs, ask and answer about historical landmarks and main dates of our capital .

Good work! Let’s have a rest. Stand up, pleaseand do my commands.

If you are patriots and love Ukraine,

Clap your hands! (twice)

If you’re happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it
If you are patriots and love Ukraine,

Stamp your feet! (twice)

If you’re happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it

If you are patriots and love Ukraine,

Shout “Hurray”! (twice)

If you’re happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it!