“Total dictation” will write for 10 flights from Vladivostok to Berlin
The text will be dictated through special headphones, bypassing the communications system of passengers and crew.
NOVOSIBIRSK, March 6. /TASS/. Passengers of 10 flights will be able to take part in the action on checking literacy “Total dictation”. The baton will support Vladivostok, Novosibirsk and Berlin, reported in the press center TASS in Novosibirsk, the project Manager Olga Repkover.
She recalled that the idea of writing of dictation in the air was tested last year on flight Novosibirsk — Moscow.
This year we continued this collaboration, the “Total dictation” in the air in 2017 will be held for 10 flights. It will be a grammar relay race: we start by time zones, flights (airlines) S7 will pass each other the baton. All we will have 12 hours of “Total dictation” in vastukala Recoverymedical of the project “Total dictation”
According to her, the baton will be flights Vladivostok — Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk — Moscow and Moscow — Berlin (can be substituted for Dusseldorf). In addition, the action involves flights from Novosibirsk to Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Alma-ATA. According to the regulations and safety requirements, the text will be dictated through special headphones, bypassing the communications system of passengers and crew.
Repkover also said that this year the test will involve about 3 thousand sites around the world, in Russia it will involve all the regions, except for Nenets Autonomous district, the Magadan region and Ingushetia. But they can still join the campaign.
The event will take place on 8 April in more than 800 cities.
About “Total dictation”
“Total dictation” is an annual educational event designed to draw attention to issues of literacy and to develop the culture of writing.
The participants voluntarily and free of charge, write a dictation simultaneously in dozens of cities of Russia and the world, adjusted for time zones. All writing a single text or different parts of it, regardless of the chosen platform. When you publish the results of work anonymity.
The idea of this campaign appeared in Novosibirsk in the student club of the faculty of Humanities of the NSU “glum club” in the early 2000-ies. During the 14 years of “Total dictation” has become a major international event in 2016, the event took place in 732 cities, covering 69 countries, attracted more than 145 thousand people.
The author of the dictation this year was the Russian writer Leonid Yuzefovich.