The whole world reads A. Chehov

On April 5, 2024,  the Center for Russian Language and Culture at al-Farabi Kazakh National University hosted  an demo lesson on the topic:  "Journey into Chekhov's World: Video Course on the  Literary Works by  the Great Writer ,   'Thick and Thin' Strory Reading and Analysis". PhD  student  Li Duo (China) made the presentation of   the video course material for  the 2 d year  foreign students  (Turkmenistan). They  watched excerpts from the film, made  a plan, prepared a retelling  and did  the  tasks on the text. Then Li Duo conducted an interactive game (quest).

After that the students  continued the story in a modern interpretation. Each participant of the lesson  characterized the characters. Professor S. Begalieva drew the students’ attention to  the dialogue between two friends and its role in the story. The students identified the story  climax  and the author's attitude, who  always advocates for respect for human dignity.

Thus, in "Thick and Thin" story  the author's attitude towards the characters is not directly expressed; only  the reader should draw conclusions. This aspect was particularly noted by the organizers of the lesson.  The lesson was ended with the students’  summarizing  of their  findings and the writing  task:  a characterization of any  character from the story by   the following plan:

1. The character's role in the work.

2. The character's societal position.

3. Portrait description.

4. Speech characteristics.

5. Character traits.

Director of the Center 

S. Begalieva