Classroom Language: The beginning of the lesson

1. Good morning

2. How are you?

Good morning, everybody.

How are you today?

Good afternoon, everybody.

How are you getting on?

Hello, everyone.

How's life?

Hello there, James.

How are things with you?

Are you feeling better today, Bill?

3. Introductions

My name is Mr/Mrs/Ms Kim. I'm

your new English teacher.

I'll be teaching you English this

year.

I've got five lessons with you each

week.

5. Waiting to start

4. Time to begin

Let's begin our lesson now.

Is everybody ready to start?

I hope you are all ready for your English lesson.

I think we can start now.

Now we can get down to work.

6. Put your things away

I'm waiting for you to be quiet.

Close your books.

We won't start until everyone is

quiet.

Put your books away.

Stop talking and be quiet.

Pack your things away.

Settle down now so we can start.

7. Register

8. Late

Who is absent today?.

Where have you been?

Who isn't here today?

We started ten minutes ago. What have you been do

What's the matter with today?

Did you miss your bus?

Did you oversleep?

What's wrong with Jim today?

Why were you absent last Friday,

?

Don't let it happen again.

Classroom Language: Simple instructions

Here are some common instructions which the class can easily understand:

Come in.

Stand by your desks.

Go out.

Put your hands up.

Stand up.

Put your hands down.

Sit down.

Hold your books/pens up.

Come to the front of the class.

Show me your pencil.

A number of instructions can be used at the beginning of a session, and as the semester continues:

Pay attention, everybody.

Listen to this tape.

You need pencils/rulers.

Repeat after me.

We'll learn how to ...

Again, please.

Are you ready?

Everybody ...

Open your books at page ...

you have five minutes to do this.

Turn to page ...

Who's next?

Look at acitivity five.

Like this, not like that.

A number of instructions can be used at the end of a session, and as the semester continues:

It's time to finish.

Any questions?

Have you finsihed?

Collect your work please.

Let's stop now.

Pack up your books.

Stop now.

Are your desks tidy?

Let's check the answers.

Don't forget to bring your ... tomorrow.

Instructions can also be sequenced:

First

Then

Next

Finally

After that

Comprehension language:

Are you ready?

What did you say?

Are you with me?

One more time, please.

Are you OK?

Say it again, please.

OK so far?

I don't understand.

Do you get it?

I don't get it.

Do you understand?

Like this?

Do you follow me?

Is this OK?

Classroom Language: The end of the lesson

1. Time to stop

2. Not time to stop.

It's almost time to stop.

The bell hasn't gone yet.

I'm afraid it's time to finish now.

There are still two minutes to go.

We'll have to stop here.

We still have a couple of minutes left.

There's the bell. It's time to stop.

The lesson doesn't finish till five past.

That's all for today. You can go

Your watch must be fast.

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3. Wait a minute

We seem to have finished early.

We have an extra five minutes.

Sit quietly until the bell goes.

4. Next time

Hang on a moment.

We'll do the rest of this chapter next time.

Just hold on a moment.

We'll finish this exercise next lesson.

Stay where you are for a

moment.

We've run out of time, so we'll continue next lesson.

Just a moment, please.

We'll continue this chapter next Monday.

One more thing before you go.

Back to your places.

5. Homework

This is your homework for

tonight.

Do exercise 10 on page 23 for

your homework.

Prepare the next chapter for

Monday.

There is no homework tonight.

Remember your homework.

Take a worksheet as you leave.

7. Leaving the room

Get into a queue.

Form a queue and wait for the

bell.

6. Goodbye

Goodbye, everyone.

See you again next Wednesday.

See you tomorrow afternoon.

See you in room 7 after the break.

Have a good holiday.

Enjoy your vacation..

Everybody outside!

All of you, get outside now!

Hurry up and get out!

Try not to make any noise as you

leave.

Be quiet as you leave. Other

classes are still working.

Classroom Language: Classroom management

Here are some common situations in which classroom management is needed:

Make groups of four.

Move your desks into groups of four people.

Turn your desks around.

Make a horseshoe shape with your desks.

Make a circle with your desks.

Make a line of desks facing each other.

Make groups of four desks facing each other.

Sit back to back.

Work together with your friend

There are too many in this group.

Find a partner

Can you join the other group?

Work in pairs/threes/fours/fives.

Only three people in each group.

Work in groups of two/three/four.

I asked for four people to a group.

I want you to form groups.

Form groups of three

Here are some tasks for you to work on in

groups of four.

Everybody work individually

Ask other people in the group

Work by yourselves.

Ask others in the class.

Work independently.

Interview someone else.

Ask your neighbor for help.

Ask everyone in the class.

Work on the task together.

Stand up and find another partner.

Have you finished?

Do the next activity.

Move on to the next activity.

Classroom Language: Classroom management

Here are some phrases that can be used for classroom management:
Organization
Giving instructions

Sequencing

Open your books at page 52

First of all, today, ...

Come out and write it on the

board

Right. Now we will go on to the next exercise.

Listen to the tape, please

Have you finished?

Get into groups of four

For the last thing today, let's ...

Finish off this song at home

Whose turn is it to read?

Let's sing a song.

Which question are you on?

Everybody, please.

Next one, please.

Who hasn't answered yet?

All together now.

Let me explain what I want you to do next.

The whole class, please.

The idea of this exercise is for you to ...

I want you all to join in

You have ten minutes to do this.

Could you try the next one?

Your time is up.

I would like you to write this

down.

Finish this by twenty to eleven.

Would you mind switching the

lights on?

Can you all see the board?

Have you found the place?

Are you all ready?

It might be an idea to leave this

till next time.

Who would like to read?

Which topic will your group

report on?

Do you want to answer question

3?

Supervision

Look this way.

Stop talking.

Listen to what ... is saying.

Leave that alone now.

Be careful.

Interrogation
Asking questions
Responding to questions

Where's Min-su?

Is Min-su in the kitchen?

Tell me where Min-su is.

What was the house like?

Yes, that's right

Fine.

Almost. Try again.

What about this word?

What do you think?

How can you tell?

Explanation
Metalanguage

Reference

What's the Korean for "doll"?

After they left the USA, the Beatles ...

Explain it in your own words.

The church was started in the last century.

It's spelt with a capital "J".

This is a picture of a typically English castle.

Can anybody correct this

sentence?

In the background you can see ...

While we're on the subject, ...

As I said earlier, ...

Let me sum up.

Fill in the missing words.

Mark the right alternative.

Interaction
Affective attitudes

Social ritual

That's interesting!

Good morning.

That really is very kind of you.

Cheerio now.

Don't worry about it.

God bless!

I was a bit disappointed with

your efforts.

Have a nice weekend.

Thanks for your help

Happy birthday!

Merry Christmas!

Classroom Language: Error correction

Here are some phrases that can be used when giving feedback to students:

Very good

You did a great job.

Right

That's very good

Magnificent

Yes

Well done

Terrific

Fine

Very fine

Wow!

Quite right

That's nice

Jolly good

That's right.

I like that

Great stuff

That's it.

Marvellous

Fantastic

That's correct

That's quite right.

Yes, you've got it.

You've got the idea.

It depends

Not really

You were almost right

It might be, I suppose

Unfortunately not

That's almost it

In a way, perhaps

I'm afraid that's not

quite right

You're halfway there

Sort of , yes.

That's more like it

You can't say that, I'm

afraid

You've almost got it

You're on the right lin

That's much better

There's no need to ru

That's a lot better

There's no hurry

You've improved a lot

We have plenty of tim

you can't use that

word here

Good try, but not

quite right

Have another try

Go on. Have a try

Not quite right. Try

again.

Have a go

Not exactly

Have a guess

There's nothing wrong with your

answer.

What you said was perfectly all

right.

Don't worry about your pronunciation.

Don't worry about your spelling.

Don't worry, it'll improve

You didn't make a single mistake.

Maybe this will help you

That's exactly the point.

Do you want a clue (hint)?

That's just what I was looking for.

You have good pronunciation.

You still have some trouble with pronunca

Your pronunciation is very good.

You need more practice with these words.

You are communicating well.

You'll have to spend some time practising

You speak very fluently.

You're getting better at it all the time.

You have made a lot of progress.

You've improved no end.