Classroom language

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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, 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.