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Глава 15 • Методика обучения дошкольников английскому языку…
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grow on the tree? No, it grows in the ground. Or: Where does it grow? — In 
the ground, etc. The procedure goes on until all the objects are classifi ed. 
2. The teacher asks several children come up to the board and point 
to some vegetables: Point to a potato, a cucumber, a beet, etc. Then she 
makes a conclusion: These are vegetables. The potato is a vegetable. The 
tomato is a vegetable. etc. All vegetables grow in or on the ground. These 
things that grow in or on the ground are vegetables. 
3. The same conclusion is made about fruit: Fruit grow on the tree. 
Name fruit that you like. 
M a g i c B a g
Materials: real or artifi cial fruit or fruit and vegetables, a nice bag that 
can be called “magic”. 
This game is simple but very attractive for children and eff ective for 
training diff erent words that name objects. It is always a surprise for children. 
It is good to use for fun and practice. 
The task is: put you hand into the bag. 
Take one thing and try to guess what this is. 
Name it before you get it out. 
Everyone will see whether you are right or wrong. 
Another variant: the object is still kept in the bag. Children ask the child 
who is holding the vegetable in the bag and try to guess it: Is it a carrot? 
Is it a cucumber? Is it a potato? Or: Is it long? Is it round? Is it a 
vegetable?
The child who takes the object out of the bag may be given task to 
say about this fruit as much as possible. 
E a t a b l e a n d U n e a t a b l e
This game also develops during this game the child catches the ball if 
he hears a word of anything eatable and he should refuse to catch if the 
object named is uneatable. 

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Часть II • Формирование иноязычных речевых навыков и умений…
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Children like to react emotionally if anyone has eaten something wrong. 
They laugh: You have eaten a car! I don’t like to eat cars! If the child catches 
the ball and hears anything like “a banana” he says “Oh, it’s yummy! I like 
bananas!” 
This is not only fun but this game also develops attention and forms 
children’s lexical sub-skills. 
W h a t i s M i s s i n g ? 
This game also develops attention: children should notice what changed 
after they had turned away or closed their eyes. The teacher takes an object 
out of the line and hides it. That child who names the missing fruit or a 
vegetable gets a point. The winner should get many points. This game is 
simple but it helps to repeat the words studied in a very interesting form. 
D i s a p p e a r i n g G a m e
Children choose the pictures with fruit or vegetables: they may answer 
the teacher’s questions “Who is going to be a pear? Who is going to be a 
carrot?” Or they can pull cards without looking. The teacher attaches pictures 
of to the children’s clothes and explains: Malefi cent has cast a spell on all 
fruit and vegetables to make them disappear. She doesn’t want them to 
come to the children. She pronounces a spell and each time a fruit or a 
vegetable disappears. 
Malefi cent pronounces:
Touch your nose!
Touch your ear! 
Apple, apple, 
Disappear!
The children do these actions. As she says it the child who is the “apple” 
is to squat as if hiding. This continues until all children are seated. 
Then the teacher tells the children that she knows how to return all 
the vegetables and fruit. They read the following rhyme:
Touch your nose!
Touch your ear!
Apple, apple,
Please, appear!
“The apple” stands up. So they do until all children are standing. 

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