It is unlikely that anyone now doubts that knowledge of English is an absolute necessity for any intellectually highly paid job, and business today is almost impossible without contacts with foreign partners, and English is the main language of international communication. At the same time, it is especially important to be able to understand native speakers and conduct a full-fledged dialogue with them. And few of us can boast of this skill. But we learned the language at school for many years, starting from the 5th grade, and someone even from the first grades of gymnasiums and special schools, and then continued to learn it for 6 years at the institute. And still, the need to speak with foreigners drives many into a stupor and causes great fear. Why is this happening?

Valeria Meshcheryakova has spent more than 20 years of her life creating her own unique method of teaching English. She managed to figure out how our school creates a language barrier in children and find a way to teach the language so that the child does not have any barriers, and he learns a foreign language as well as his native language.

Meshcheryakova’s technique is suitable for children from 3 to 10 years old and uses the mechanism of imprinting (imprinting), when language structures are imprinted in the child’s mind without significant effort on the part of the child, without tedious cramming and without stress.

This mechanism works best in children in early childhood and fades away after 8-9 years. That is why it is important to start learning foreign languages ​​as early as possible.

Training in the methodology of Valeria Meshcheryakova is based on the principle of deep immersion:

– Lessons are conducted only in English;

- learning is built in the form of a game - for children this is not an occupation, but an exciting performance in which they act as the main actors;

- uses a lot of audio materials recorded by native speakers;

- Parents also participate in the training.

Gradually, in the process of such classes, children begin to speak and think freely in the language and, as a result, master English as their native language.

For each age group, a separate level of language teaching is applied.

Stage 0: "I can sing"- English for children from 3 to 5 years old. Children learn to perceive English by ear, follow the teacher's commands, play and sing songs in English.

Stage 1: "I can talk"- for children from 5 to 7 years old. Children acquire English speaking skills. Vocabulary grows to 500 units.

Stage 3: "I can write"- for children from 8 to 9 years old. Children learn to write in English, build sentences grammatically correctly.

Stage 4: "I can analyze"- for children from 9 to 10 years old. Children develop the skill of analyzing oral and written language material.

The number of children in the group is 5-6 people.

Classes are held 2 times a week, duration - from 30 to 45 minutes, depending on the age of the child.

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I am not a supporter of early language learning, but I could not resist the temptation to buy a manual Meshcheryakova for several reasons - your child of 3 years old, reviews on various forums, where almost all those who bought, like zombies, talk about its miraculous effect, the inability to get acquainted with Meshcheryakova's manuals or methodology online, and, of course, female curiosity. I have not yet dealt with children of this age, but on the network, except this video, did not find anything intelligible in the teaching methodology. Yes, there are seminars that are conducted according to this technique, but they are, to put it mildly, not cheap.

I made an order on the official website, where a book for a teacher + a book for a student + a CD with songs + delivery cost me 1400r(!). I didn’t buy a visual aid for this level, because a toad strangled me (another + 1000 rubles). The amount is rather big, considering that there are only 5 such benefits (they correspond to steps 1 - 4, plus this one is zero).
Opening the package, I saw two books in the format A5 and a volume of about 50 pages:

I can sing. Book for the student.

AT book for student we find:
1) Author's message
2) Text of audio lessons
3) Lyrics with pictures for kids
4) Colored cards with toys and objects used in the lessons
5) Song translation and dictionary

The pages are just pictures and lyrics side by side. If you look at registration books, the pictures are kind of funny, but from a parent's point of view, I don't like yellow hares, pink horses, blue bears, and ugly children. From an aesthetic point of view, the courses of foreign publishers (for example, this one) are decorated more pleasantly.

In addition, the sheets intended for the student - lessons with songs and texts - are made on glossy paper, but the material for parents is on plain paper, which a preschool child can easily tear if handled carelessly.

I can sing. The book for the teacher.

AT teacher's book there is:
1) Description of methodological principles
2) Inventory
3) Class structure
4) Lesson plans
5) Additional games

Its undoubted plus: all lessons are detailed, methodological advice is given - how to seat children, how to introduce new toys to them, how to introduce material, consolidate it, how to sing songs, what games to use. Also given are small cheat sheets for the teacher:

I can sing. Audio.

On the disk allowances V. Meshcheryakova recorded songs, backing tracks, background music. The disc is sounded by native speakers (male and female), the pronunciation is good, clear, there are no complaints about this. It is more pleasant for me to listen to a recording of children's voices in a children's textbook, but this is my opinion.

I can sing. Results.

After reading the manual by V. Meshcheryakova “I can sing”, you can do several conclusions:

• parents and teachers, not engaged with this age group, and who have little idea how to teach English to preschoolers - you can safely take it, because. the manual gives a detailed algorithm for the behavior of classes
• in kindergartens this textbook is more convenient to use than English-language ones - and you have all the classes prescribed, and the student's parents will know what their children are being taught (all materials in the manual have been translated).
• If you tutor, who already has experience working with children from 3 to 6 years old, the manual can be used as additional material for classes. You, most likely, will not learn anything new from it about the methodology of teaching the language to preschoolers.

And my 5 kopecks: taking into account the considerable price of the allowance, its small size, the active PR campaign of the entire methodology and the inability to somehow get acquainted with it in online resources, all this seems to be another way to make more money from children and parents who want to their child knew the language. I haven’t had time to try the technique yet, but when I try it, I may change my mind and I will definitely write about the results!

Review of V. Meshcheryakova's manual “I can sing”

MUNICIPAL AUTONOMOUS GENERAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL SCHOOL №59 "PERSPECTIVE" OF LIPETSK

Working curriculum

"English for kids"

The program is designed for children 3-4 years old (younger preschool age). The duration of the program is 1 year.

Teacher: Tkachenko O.S.

1. Explanatory note
2. Principles and methods of the program
3. Program Goals
4. Program objectives
5. Logistics
6. Expected results
7. Methodological support of the program
8. Application No. 1

Explanatory note

EMC VN Meshcheryakova "I can sing" for teaching children 3-4 years of English is the first step in the training set "I love English". The purpose of the first stage is to teach children to perceive English speech by ear, to create an image of the language in the child's brain by repeatedly listening and then singing colloquial phrases and grammatical structures. Lessons are conducted in a musical and game form. The use of phonograms is of great importance. The text and songs on the cassette are performed by native speakers and presented in the form of entertaining illustrated stories. The audio course, entirely recorded in English by native speakers, takes on the function of immersion in the language environment.

This methodological manual consists of 3 parts, each of which is designed for classes within 2-3 months, i.e. It is advisable to go through the 1st part in the fall, the 2nd in the winter, and the 3rd in the spring.

Classes are held in a group of 10-12 people for 15 minutes 2 times a week. Despite the fact that the material is intended primarily for listening, some children begin to speak already in the first lessons.

By creating a relaxed playful atmosphere in the classroom, the teacher awakens activity in children, which gradually turns from play into learning activity. In the classroom, the children, as it were, do not learn the language, but simply use what they have already heard in the teacher's speech or on the cassette in order to be able to participate in a common game. To effectively memorize the material, it is necessary to repeatedly listen to the structures, and to consolidate it, it is necessary to constantly repeat it, which is provided for by the structure of the manual.

For a year, children learn 20 songs and rhymes. Children master a large object of English material receptively, i.e. perceive it by ear and respond appropriately.

As in life, there are both "talkative" and "silent" in the group. The teacher should encourage the speech activity of "talkers", but pay special attention to phonetic errors and increase the number of correct repetitions of these sounds in the lesson.

When compiling the program, methodological principles :

• The principle of comfort;
• Immersion in the language environment;
• The principle of the overall development of the child through a foreign language, the disclosure of his creative abilities;
• The principle of the natural way of mastering the language;
• The principle of activation of the main channels of perception (visual, auditory, kinesthetic).

Knowing which motives are the source activities and interest children:

• The desire for object manipulation (to give children the opportunity to stroke a guest who comes to the lesson, and then he will turn from an ordinary toy into a close friend for them);
• Emotional motive (it is necessary to build lessons so that all children play any game);
• The motive of imitating adults (manifested in the readiness of children to repeat after the teacher all his actions);
• Moral motive (manifested in criticism of other people's misdeeds and in the desire to do good deeds);
• Cognitive motive (here we mean the usual children's curiosity).

In the process of teaching English at an early stage, the following main methods : communicative, visual, game.

Communicative methodis the supreme, dominant, most relevant to the specifics of a foreign language as an academic subject. With the help of this method, the primary task of mastering elementary skills and abilities of oral foreign language communication at an early stage of learning English, creating the core of oral speech and reading and the initial formation of children's ability to communicate at the intercultural level is solved.

visual methodprovides for the direct display in the classroom of objects and phenomena of the surrounding world, visual aids in order to facilitate understanding, memorization and use of educational material in the practical activities of students.

Game the method is a practical consolidation of the acquired knowledge and skills through the participation of students in games and skits.

Goals.

The program contributes to the formation and development of:

1. English listening comprehension;
2. Expands the general cultural level of students;
3. Creates a basis for further teaching English;

Tasks.

1. Formation of students' desire to use English as a means of communication with native speakers;
2. Formation of a lexical base to ensure understanding and speaking in English;
3. Education of sociability, culture of communication, desire for further in-depth study of a foreign language.

Program Logistics

• game teaching aids: a set of cubes, balls, toys.
• audio materials on topics;
• illustrative and didactic material on the topics of classes;
• visual aids.

Expected results:

English listening comprehension

Formation of interest in learning;

Creating a vocabulary base (at least 15 words and about 20 expressions)

Ability to work with handouts.

Literature and teaching aids.

Application No. 1

Calendar-thematic planning.

Today I learned about Meshcheryakova's technique. I was surprised that the little children already spoke English, understood what the teacher was saying to them, behaved very freely, laughed, played as if they were not in the lesson at all. I even had a complex: I sort of study grammar, I draw tables with rules, but here children conduct dialogues so easily and without any tables. Meshcheryakova herself did not look like a teacher at all, and it seemed as if a kind of cheerful Mary Poppins “number two” had descended on an umbrella.

English for children Meshcheryakova The lesson begins with cheerful greetings, in which everyone participates: the teacher, children, toys and even doors. All this is not said, but sung. Fingers began to count, and also for a reason: fingers sing and talk in different voices, there is a finger - a teacher and fingers - children. “Who didn’t show all the fingers, who forgot them at home?” Children laugh, they have fun. Then the teacher suddenly remembers that she forgot to get to know each other, and a face-to-face acquaintance begins.

The lesson is mainly in English and resembles a puppet show: all the toy animals talk and sing songs. Then suddenly there will be a knock on the door and you need to ask who is there and invite them in, then the exercise begins: Technique I can sing “Hands up! Hands up!" the teacher sings, and the children instantly raise their hands up.

Then a game of cat and mouse begins. The teacher turns into a cat, and the children into mice.

"I'm grey!" - the children scream and run away with a screech. At the end of the lesson, everyone says goodbye. The lesson lasted 15 minutes, but during this time the children managed a lot, and they were not bored for a single minute.

Interested: so what is this technique? And it became even a little envious - we were not taught that way. From the first lessons, we filled notebooks with a series of letters and memorized phrases on duty, and many knew the language worse than these preschoolers.

Features of the English course "I love English"

Meshcheryakova system Valeria Meshcheryakova is the author of a course called “I love English” and manuals for teachers, in which she already gives them lessons on how to teach children the language through songs, dialogues, reading and writing, so that they eventually master live spoken English. The course is suitable for children from 2 to 9 years old, each age has its own system. All lessons are built according to the type of children's TV shows: "Good night, kids" and "ABVG deika"

In the course, a big role is given to the teacher, especially for young children. He should be not just a teacher, but also an artist, an entertainer, a singer, a psychologist. Therefore, the author is interested in teaching, first of all, the teachers themselves.

Deep dive method

The deep immersion method Meshcheryakova is convinced that today the teaching of English in kindergartens and schools is wrong. The proof of this is that children at the end of school do not know how to speak. She builds her training not on theory, but on practice, primarily in audio lessons. Training is based on the deep immersion method:

• 
  Lessons are only in English
• recordings in audio materials are made by native speakers
• English is used for other tasks
• Parents are also involved in education

So how does this happen anyway? Imagine: the teacher speaks in English, other non-language tasks are done in English, the audio recording is in English, and spoken English - all this leads to the fact that language becomes a part of children's lives. Gradually, they begin to speak it fluently and think. Not surprisingly, children trained in this system speak English like their mother tongue.

The role of parents in teaching children

When Meshcheryakova addresses her parents, that serene cheerful image of Mary Poppins flies off her, and we again have a strict teacher in front of us. And it is clear why: after all, parents are able to spoil everything and ruin any impulse in the bud. So here are some of her tips.

Children learn fast and parents often fall behind their children, which is bad:

• Firstly, the children, seeing the example of their parents and respecting them, will decide: well, since the parents themselves do not know English, then why should I know it.
• secondly, knowing the language, you will be able to deal with your children yourself.

Video message to parents

How to conduct training correctly

It should be interesting for children, prodding of this kind is unacceptable: “Well, immediately turn off the“ tanks ”and sit down for English!”

Do not allow incomprehensible places to arise, this will accumulate, and the child will not want to learn.

You need to listen to audio lessons constantly every day, without leaving all the material for the week for one day before the control task (control task - every 4 lessons)

You can listen to lessons everywhere, even on the way to kindergarten (school).

At first, it is recommended that you simply listen to the entire course three times easily, without completing assignments. Do not think that children will not remember anything. This will lay in them, to the depth of the subconscious, the primary passive vocabulary. Meshcheryakova gives an interesting comparison of vocabulary with an iceberg, in which the underwater part (passive stock) is often smaller than the surface part (active stock). And the task of the teacher is to bring the underwater passive part outward, to turn it into an active one.

If the parents still "screw up", Meshcheryakova offers this option of salvation:

include an audio lesson before going to bed, because any child of two evils - sleeping or listening - will still choose the second (such a little trick). Nothing distracts his attention, after that he will fall asleep, and all the information will be deposited in a long memory.

Development of new author's methods

The author is constantly developing something new, and really loves the language and his work. She created a language training center of the same name, and she released manuals for teachers specifically to teach them her method of teaching English through audio lessons. What a responsible person!. Her method of color reading, described in the “I can read” manual, is interesting. I will briefly describe it.

How can children who do not know phonetics learn to read correctly?

This seems like an impossible task. Indeed, in English phonetics there are a lot of different letter combinations and discrepancies. The same letter is read differently, for example, for vowels it depends on which syllable, open or closed, the letter is located. Consonants are pronounced as voiced, some as deaf. By sound: there are neutral sounds, some are not readable at all. In special texts, all letters are painted in different colors, according to how they are pronounced. For example, yellow is neutral, white is unreadable, black is deaf, red is sonorous.

It is not difficult for children to remember which sound corresponds to each color. Then they begin to apply the method of similarity, and gradually it is possible to move from color texts to black and white. Thus, without knowing the rules, you can learn to read even complex texts.

If you are interested in this training system, then all the details about where to purchase textbooks or take a seminar (if you are a teacher) can only be found on the official website of Meshcheryakova. It has exclusive copyright and strictly protects it. Therefore, do not rush to download torrents, but when signing up for courses on its system, be sure to ask the teacher for a certificate of completion of the seminar.

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