THE RUSSIAN LITERATURE’S HOLIDAYS IN THE LINGUA-CULTURAL ASPECT OF RFL AT A BASIC LEVEL

Abstract

The article highlights systematization of holidays in Russian literature. The purpose of the article is to create a corpus of texts for a student’s close reading, beginning from a basic level of language. Firstly, a layer of vocabulary is associated with the holiday theme, which is necessary at the basic level and replenishes the stock of colloquial expressions that help to understand informal speech. Secondly, the holiday, a semi-ritual action, contains repetitive verbal formulas, stable expressions and constant epithets, therefore it allows you to consolidate grammatical constructions, remember patterns on authentic material. And, finally, nowhere are folk traditions so clearly manifested, familiarity with which contributes to the expansion of lingua-cultural horizons, as in holidays. The task of the article was to select suitable works of art and bring them into some correspondence with colorful and concise descriptions of the main holidays, coupled with different types of tasks in the educational texts of RFL courses A2+ (“The Road to Russia”, “Russian season”, “Zhili-byli”, etc.).