Meshcheryakova's technique "English for children". Overview of V. Meshcheryakova’s manual “I can sing” Meshcheryakova’s courses

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 some 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.

Welcome to classes at the April Early Development Center!

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 the 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 merry Mary Poppins “number two” had descended on an umbrella.

English for children Meshcheryakova's 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 the 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.

Popular English children's songs:

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 zombie charms, 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 seem to be funny, but from the point of view of a parent, I don’t like yellow hares, pink horses, blue bears and ugly drawn 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 voiced by native speakers (male and female), the pronunciation is good, clear, there are no complaints about this. It’s 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”

LEGAL FORM

IP Goncharova Olga Viktorovna is the official distributor on the territory of the Russian Federation and foreign countries of the technique of Valeria Meshcheryakova "I Love English", acting on the basis of the main distribution agreement between IP Meshcheryakova V.N. - a manufacturer of author's methodological and teaching aids in English on the one hand and IP Goncharova O.V. . - distributor, on the other hand.

Organizational and legal form of the store - IP Goncharova O.V. certificate No. 311169025200012 dated 09.09.2011

Director of the store and the methodological center - Goncharova Olga Viktorovna

The site www.eng-shop.ru presents author's educational and methodological manuals by Valeria Meshcheryakova on teaching English to children of preschool and primary school age, author's courses on preparing teachers to work with children according to these manuals, as well as books and manuals by other authors, which are created as additional material for classes with children according to the method of Valeria Meshcheryakova.

ABOUT THE METHOD OF VALERIA MESCHERYAKOVA I LOVE ENGLISH

The technique of Valeria Meshcheryakova has been developing since 1994. It began with individual cassettes recorded by the author daily for his students, and now the I LOVE ENGLISH method of teaching children English is the most popular and effective in the educational services market.

In the form of sets of manuals, the technique appeared on the market in 1998. Gradually developing, the technique became more and more in demand. A clear structure, methods of working with children worked out in practice by the author himself gave excellent results, and this could not pass by the attention of teachers and parents. The effectiveness of the methodology is manifested in a specific indicator: children begin to speak freely in guaranteed terms in a guaranteed volume. Naturally, as in all other processes, the guarantee of the result can only be with 100% observance of the methodological principles and rules for organizing the process, which teachers master in V.N. Meshcheryakova.

Active promotion of the methodology began in 2004 after the organization of the Valeria Meshcheryakova Methodological Center in Moscow (organizer and head of the Center Goncharova Olga Viktorovna)

POSITIVE AND DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF V.N. MESHCHERYAKOVA

Parents are freed from laborious attempts to help their children "do their homework" - you just turn on the disc every day for 10-15 minutes. Nothing more needs to be done. If you do not know English, this is not a hindrance, but an opportunity to start learning it with your child.

Teachers acquire a very effective and convenient technique. The clearly structured material presented in the manuals and the availability of a set of visual aids free the teacher from the routine work of writing lesson plans and selecting additional materials. Kits have EVERYTHING! The teacher can focus exclusively on creative work and enjoy teaching as much as children!

As a result, the teacher gets English-speaking children in a short time. For parents, this is the most powerful motivation to turn to you as an English teacher on the issue of effectively teaching their children English.

Children will not be afraid to speak English, but will do it with pleasure. By visiting English according to the method of Valeria Meshcheryakova, children 100% receive a positive emotional charge, as if they were attending an exciting entertainment event. The joyful activities of children are the health of your children - mental and physical

Heads (organizers, administrators, investors) of children's centers.

The presence in your educational institution of teachers who own the methodology of teaching children English according to Meshcheryakova V.N. - a strong motivational factor for parents to invest in your language center (school, group).

Who contacts us:

Teachers of children's centers and language courses.

Future and current organizers of modern children's centers, where the most important thing is not to make money, but to provide quality services, for which you will receive gratitude from parents in the form of good pay.

Parents who understand the importance of quality learning and early childhood development. By purchasing our original manuals, they not only thank the author and our entire team for creating a highly effective product, but also support them for further development.

Distribution of the technique:

Children all over Russia, in the Baltic States, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine are studying on our allowances.

Future plans.

Release of audio courses in other foreign languages. Already now you can get acquainted with the experimental manuals in French and German. A Spanish manual is expected. In development - Japanese.

Release of additional teaching and methodological aids, both authorial and created by teachers working according to the methodology of Valeria Meshcheryakova.

Expansion of the geography of representations of the methodology.

Master classes on methodology for teachers and parents.

Video presentations and programs in support of teachers working on the methodology and for parents.

Dear visitors! Below you will find teaching aids in English for children according to the method of V.N. Meshcheryakova "I love English". With these disks and books I work in the classroom.

The English language manual for children from 3 to 6 years old is the zero step in the I love English learning kit and consists of a CD and a coloring book. At the end of the manual, methodological recommendations, translation of song lyrics (for parents) and a dictionary (also for parents) are given. At this level, children learn to perceive English speech by ear, follow the teacher's commands, play and sing songs in English. Classes are conducted in a musical and game form.

The English language manual for children from 4 to 7 years old is a continuation of the zero level in the I love English training set and consists of a CD and a colorful book for the child. At the beginning of the book there is a dictionary (for parents), and at the end there is the text of audio lessons in English. At the end of each semester, you can put on musicals in English with the children, the scripts for which are given in the teacher's manual.

The English manual for children from 5 to 7 years old is the 1st step in the "I love English" training package and consists of a CD, a book with audio lessons and a workbook. Children continue to develop their listening skills and begin to speak English using about 250 words and 40 colloquial phrases. During the year, children learn 30 songs and rhymes. Also, children develop sociability, activity and independence.

The English language manual for children aged 6-10 is the 2nd step in the I love English training kit and consists of a CD, a book with audio lessons and a book on reading. Children continue to improve their listening skills, communication in English and begin to learn to read using the original technology of color reading on familiar language material studied at previous levels. Children easily learn to read English.

The set consists of a reading book, a workbook with a board game and a CD with very beautiful songs and well-read fairy tales. The book was created on the basis of lexical material acquired by children at the “I can speak” and “I can read” levels. This book develops the reader's curiosity, the ability to reflect, compare with personal experience and form their own opinion about what they read. There is a musical script at the end of the book.

The English language manual for children from 7-11 years old is the 3rd step in the "I love English" training set and consists of a disk, a textbook and a workbook. At this stage, children learn the basics of writing in English and, of course, continue to work with listening, speaking and reading. The audio lessons of this level contain a large number of new grammatical structures.

The set consists of a reading book and a CD. This book combines entertaining texts with interesting tasks, where new vocabulary is presented in the technique of color reading. The reading and writing in this book is designed to develop critical thinking. At the end of the book you will find a dictionary and a musical script that you can put on with your children at the end of the school year.