Classroom language
Greetings
Greetings
- Hello, everyone.
- Good morning, everybody.
- Good afternoon, class.
- Hello there, Tom.
- Good afternoon, everybody.
- How are you today?
- How are you getting on?
- How’s life?
- How are things with you?
- Are you feeling better today, David?
- What a lovely day!
- What a rainy day!
- Today is very cold, isn’t it?
Time to begin
Time to begin
- Let’s begin today’s lesson.
- Let’s begin our lesson now.
- I hope you are all ready for your English lesson.
- I think we can start now.
- Is everybody ready to start?
- Now we can get down to work.
- It’s time to begin, please stop talking.
- I’m waiting for you to be quiet.
- Settle down now so we can start.
- We won’t start until everyone is quiet.
- Stop talking and be quiet.
Questions
- Any questions?
- Do you have any questions?
- Now I’m going to ask you some questions.
- Who knows the answer?
- Raise your hand.
- Please raise your hand if you don’t understand.
- Try to answer by yourself.
- Try again.
- A full sentence, please.
- Use a full sentence please.
- Make a sentence.
- Say it in a loud voice.
- Louder, please!
- Again, please.
Giving feedback to students
- Magnificent!
- Right!
- Fine.
- Very good.
- That’s very good.
- Great stuff!
- Well done.
- That’s it.
- Yes!
- Yes, you’ve got it.
- Fantastic!
- Very fine.
- That’s nice.
- I like that.
- Marvellous!
- You did a great job.
- Terrific!
- Wow!
- That’s correct.
- Quite right
- That’s right.
- That’s quite right.
- It depends.
- That’s much better.
- In a way, perhaps.
- You’ve improved a lot.
- Sort of, yes.
- That’s more like it.
- It might be, I suppose.
- That’s a lot better.
Homework
Homework
- Remember your homework.
- Take a worksheet as you leave.
- What do you have to do before the next lesson?
- This is your homework for tonight.
- Finish this exercise
- Do the next exercise tonight, and we’ll check it tomorrow.
- Prepare the next chapter for Tuesday.
- Do exercise 5 on page 36 for your homework. There is no homework today.
- There is no homework tonight (but there will be tomorrow)
Next time
Next time
- The next class starts at 7 o’clock.
- We’ll do the rest of this chapter next time.
- We’ve run out of time, so we’ll continue next lesson.
- We’ll continue this chapter next Monday.
- We’ll do some more practice of this in the next class.
- We’ll finish this exercise next lesson.
- We’re going to continue with this tomorrow, so please sit together again.
Goodbye
Goodbye
- Goodbye, everyone.
- See you again next Thursday/ next week/ tomorrow/ on Monday
- Have a good holiday.
- Enjoy your vacation.
- See you tomorrow afternoon.
- Stand up and say goodbye to the class, please
- See you in room 8 after the break.