Kosiv Painted Ceramics: Ukrainian C1
Read a C1 Ukrainian text about Kosiv painted ceramics, its making process, ornament, and UNESCO inscription.
Косівська мальована кераміка: контур, колір і пам'ять
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What you'll learn
Ceramics and heritage vocabulary, impersonal passive forms, relative pronouns, and purpose clauses.
The article describes the making of Kosiv painted ceramics, its green and yellow colours, figurative ornament, and 2019 UNESCO inscription.
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Репрезентативного списку нематеріальної культурної спадщини людства
newthe Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
This is UNESCO's official list name for living cultural practices.
It names the tradition's international recognition.
До цієї традиції належать
newbelong to this tradition
The phrase says that particular things form part of a wider tradition.
It helps describe what a tradition includes.
Під час випалу
newduring firing
Firing is the stage of heating a ceramic object in a kiln.
It names a key stage in ceramic production.
ознакою приналежності до громади
newa sign of belonging to a community
Приналежність means a person's connection with a particular community.
Useful for discussing culture and identity.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
обрядові
обрядові
ceremonial
The adjective describes objects connected with a rite or ceremony.
It distinguishes ceremonial objects from everyday ones.
кахлі
кахлі
decorative ceramic tiles
Кахлі are decorative ceramic tiles used to cover surfaces.
It names one type of Kosiv product.
контур
контур
outline
A contour marks the shape of an image without filling it with colour.
It helps describe a decorating technique.
обпалюють
обпалюють
they fire
The verb means heating a ceramic object in a kiln.
It is essential for describing ceramic making.
оксидами металів
оксидами металів
with metal oxides
Metal oxides are compounds of metals and oxygen used as ceramic colourants.
It explains where the colours in the text come from.
барвник
барвник
colourant
A colourant is a substance that gives a material a particular colour.
It helps explain the firing description.
розтікається
розтікається
spreads
The verb means moving and spreading across the surface of a liquid or colour.
It precisely describes the colourant during firing.
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внесено
традицію косівської мальованої кераміки внесено
was inscribed
«Внесено» is an impersonal passive form. It names an action without stating who performed it.
It helps read official statements about results and decisions.
яку
яку підтримує громада
which
«Яку» is the feminine accusative form of the relative pronoun «який». It links «традицію» to its relative clause.
It helps build precise complex sentences.
щоб отримати
щоб отримати традиційні зелений і жовтий кольори
in order to obtain
The conjunction «щоб» with an infinitive expresses the purpose of an action.
It gives a way to explain why something is done.
не зводяться до
не зводяться до однієї розшифровки
cannot be reduced to
The expression «зводитися до» means explaining something by only one feature or cause. The negation rejects that simplification.
It helps express nuanced cultural ideas carefully.
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