День в зоопарке

A Day at the Zoo

A2 · Elementary · fiction · 10 scenes · Premium story

An elementary story about a Saturday at the zoo. Sonya is seven and has the whole day planned on a map; the animals have other ideas. Learn the animals, the weather and a child's endless questions — and find out which one she actually remembers on the bus home.

Read День в зоопарке in Russian

Characters

Sonya (Соня) — Seven years old
Grandad (Дедушка) — Sonya's grandfather
The parrot (Попугай) — A big grey parrot
Mama (Мама) — Sonya's mother

Vocabulary from this story

животное — animal
обезьяна — monkey
слон — elephant
жираф — giraffe
тигр — tiger
пингвин — penguin
попугай — parrot
волк — wolf
птица — bird
кот — cat
рыба — fish
лапа — paw