Keyword: «saying»

The authors outline the main components and criteria of formation of senior preschool children cultural behavior as value-targets of pedagogical work of modern preschool institutions. The authors present the methodical materials on the use of folk tales, proverbs and sayings in the process of cultural activities formation, communication and appearance of the senior preschool children.

The article discusses phraseological units with components –names of color: black and white. An attempt was made to present the diversity of the semantics of phraseological units with each of the two colors, to describe the types of relations between the cultural component of phraseological units and the component-name of the color. Patterns of manifestation of the meanings of each color and the presence or absence of contrast in the semantics are revealed.