Classrom language
учебно-методический материал по английскому языку

Classroom Language: The beginning of the lesson

1. Good morning

• Good morning, everybody.
• Good afternoon, everybody.
• Hello, everyone.
• Hello there, James.

2. How are you?

• How are you today, ?.
• How are you getting on?
• How's life?
• How are things with you, ?
• Are you feeling better today, Bill?

3. Introductions

• My name is Mr/Mrs/Ms … I'm your new English teacher.
• I'll be teaching you English this year.
• I've got five lessons with you each week.

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.

5. Waiting to start

• I'm waiting for you to be quiet.
• We won't start until everyone is quiet.
• Stop talking and be quiet.
• Settle down now so we can start.

6. Put your things away

• Close your books.
• Put your books away.
• Pack your things away.

7. Register

• Who is absent today?.
• Who isn't here today?
• What's the matter with … today?
• What's wrong with Jim today?
• Why were you absent last Friday?

8. Late

• Where have you been?
• We started ten minutes ago. What have you been doing?.
• Did you miss your bus?
• Did you oversleep?
• Don't let it happen again.

Classroom Language: The language of classroom management

• 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
• Find a partner
• Work in pairs/threes/fours/fives.
• Work in groups of two/three/four.
• I want you to form groups.
• Form groups of three
• Here are some tasks for you to work on in groups of four.

• There are too many in this group.
• Can you join the other group?
• Only three people in each group.
• I asked for four people to a group.

• Have you finished?
• Do the next activity.

Move on to the next activity.  

• Everybody work individually
• Work by yourselves.
• Work independently.
• Ask your neighbor for help.
• Work on the task together.

• Ask other people in the group
• Ask others in the class.
• Interview someone else.
• Ask everyone in the class.
• Stand up and find another partner.