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Windmills in Pyrohiv | Ukrainian B1

Read about windmills and other historic structures at the open-air museum in Pyrohiv.

Вітряки в Пирогові

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Level B1 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Museum, architecture, and rural-life vocabulary, plus Ukrainian forms for existence, possibility, and wishes.

Sofiia visits the open-air museum in Pyrohiv. She learns about historical and ethnographic regions, architectural monuments, and windmills that milled grain.

After reading

Article learning block

Phrases, words, grammar, and quick practice from this text.

15 items

Phrases for training

Add useful phrases to SRS or mark them as already known.

музей просто неба

new

музей просто неба

This is a museum where collections and buildings are outdoors, not only inside one building.

Use it to talk about museums and cultural places.

історико-етнографічних регіонів

new

історико-етнографічних регіонів

This names regions with their own historical and cultural features.

Use it when you talk about culture and history.

Серед них

new

серед них

This phrase introduces examples from a group already named.

Use it to add examples.

мололи зерно на борошно

new

молоти зерно на борошно

Молоти means to turn grain into fine flour.

Use it for food, work, and history.

Key words

Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.

Museum display

експозиції

експозиція

Експозиція is a group of objects or buildings that a museum shows to visitors.

Use it when you discuss a museum.

Authentic

автентичних

автентичний

Автентичний means genuine, not made as a copy.

Use it to describe culture and historical objects.

Heritage monument

пам'яток

пам'ятка

Пам'ятка is a place, building, or object that matters to culture or history.

Use it in museums and while travelling.

Windmill

вітряки

вітряк

Вітряк is a structure where wind moves the sails and mechanism.

Use it for an important structure in the text.

Structure

споруди

споруда

Споруда means a building or another object that people constructed.

Use it as a general word for architecture.

Pounding device

ступи

ступа

Ступа is a device for pounding grain or other products.

Use it to understand how people made groats.

Grammar in context

Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.

Є to show existence

є Національний музей

there is, there are

Є shows that something exists or is in a certain place.

Use є to name what exists in a place.

Від ... до ... for a range

від XVI до XX століття

from ... to ...

Від ... до ... shows the beginning and end of time, distance, or quantity.

Use it to state a time range.

Можна + infinitive

можна побачити вітряки

one can, it is possible to

Можна before an infinitive shows possibility or permission to do something.

Use this form for a general possibility.

Щоб for purpose

щоб робити крупи

in order to

Щоб + an infinitive explains the purpose of an action.

Use it to explain why someone does something.

Хотіли б for a wish

ви хотіли б відвідати

would like

Хотіли б expresses a wish or makes a polite question.

Use this form when you talk about something desired.

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