English for Teacher

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?

Introductions

• My name is Mr/Mrs/Ms Smith. I’ll be teaching you English this year.

• I’m your new English teacher.

• I’ve got five lessons with you each week.

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.

Put your things away

• Pack your things away.

• Close your books.

• Put your books away.

Register

• Who isn’t here today?

• Who is absent today?

• Why were you absent last Friday, Tom?

• What’s the matter with Anna today?

• What’s wrong with Anna today?

Late

• We started ten minutes ago. What have you been doing?

• Did you oversleep?

• Don’t let it happen again.

• Where have you been?

• Did you miss your bus?

DURING THE LESSON | Classroom English

Classroom English | Common instructions

Instructions can be used at the beginning of a session

• Are you ready?

• Everybody …

• Pay attention, everybody.

• Open your books at page…

• You need pencils/rulers.

• We’ll learn how to …

• You have five minutes to do this.

• Turn to page …

• Look at activity five.

• Listen to this tape.

• Repeat after me.

• Again, please.

• Who’s next?

• Like this, not like that.

Comprehension language

• Do you get it?

• Are you with me?

• Are you OK?

• Do you follow me?

• OK so far?

• Do you understand?

• What did you say?

• One more time, please.

• Say it again, please.

• Like this?

• Is this OK?

Other common instructions

• Come in.

• Go out.

• Stand by your desks.

• Stand up.

• Sit down.

• Come to the front of the class.

• Put your hands up.

• Put your hands down.

• Hold your books/pens up.

• Show me your pencil.

Classroom English | Classroom management

Giving instructions

• Open your books at page 75.

• I want you all to join in.

• The whole class, please.

• All together now.

• Come out and write it on the board.

• Listen to the tape, please.

• Get into groups of four.

• Finish off this song at home.

• Everybody, please.

• Could you try the next one?

• I would like you to write this down.

• Would you mind switching the lights on?

• 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 4?

• Can you all see the board?

Sequencing

• First/ First of all, today, …

• After that/ Then

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

• Have you finished?

• For the last thing today, let’s …

• Whose turn is it to read?

• Which question are you on?

• Next/ Next one, please.

• Who hasn’t answered yet?

• Let me explain what I want you to do next.

• The idea of this exercise is for you to …

• You have ten minutes to do this.

• Your time is up.

• Finish this by twenty to eleven.

• Have you found the place?

• Are you all ready?

Supervision

• Stop talking.

• Look this way.

• Listen to what … is saying.

• Leave that alone now.

• Be careful.

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.

Responding to questions

• Yes, that’s right,

• Fine.

• Almost. Try again.

• What about this word?

Reference

• As I said earlier, …

• While we’re on the subject, …

• In the background you can see …

• The church was started in the last century.

• This is a picture of a typically English castle.

• Let me sum up.

Encouragement

• That’s interesting!

• That really is very kind of you.

• Don’t worry about it.

• Don’t worry, I’m sure you’ll do better next time.

• I’m really impressed. I knew you could do it!

• Have a go! Have another try!

• Practise makes perfect.

• Good! Excellent! Well done! That’s great!

• That’ much better! You’re really improving.

• Your marks will get better if you practise more.

• Stop making excuses.

• Don’t pretend you can’t speak English, I know you can.

• Your marks are getting better all the time.

Classroom English | Error correction

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.

• You’re on the right lines (UK).

• There’s no hurry.

• Have a guess.

• That’s almost it.

• You’re halfway there.

• You’ve almost got it.

• You were almost right.

• There’s no need to rush.

• We have plenty of time

• Unfortunately not.

• I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

• Not quite right. Try again.

• Good try, but not quite right.

• You can’t say that, I’m afraid.

• You can’t use that word here.

• Have another try.

• Not really.

• Not exactly.

Classroom English | Special situations

• Happy birthday!

• Merry Christmas!

• I hope you all have a good Christmas.

• Happy New Year!

• All the best for the New Year.

• Happy Easter.

• Tom has his 11th birthday today.

• Anna is eleven today. Let’s sing “Happy Birthday”.

• Cheerio now.

• God bless!

• Have a nice weekend.

• Thanks for your help.

• Best of luck.

• Good luck.

• I hope you pass.

• Congratulations!

• Well done!

• Hard lines!

• Never mind.

• Better luck next time.

• Do you feel better today?

• Are you better now?

• Have you been ill?

• What was the matter?

• I’ll be back in a moment.

• Carry on with the exercise while I’m away.

• I’ve got to go next door for a moment.

• I’m afraid I can’t speak any louder.

• I seem to be losing my voice.

• I have a headache.

• I’m feeling under the weather.

• Do you mind if I sit down?

• I have a sore throat.

THE END OF THE LESSON | Classroom English

Time to stop

• Let’s stop now.

• It’s time to finish now.

• It’s almost time to stop.

• I’m afraid it’s time to finish now.

• We’ve run out of time.

• We’ll have to stop here.

• There’s the bell. It’s time to stop.

• That’s all for today. You can go now.

• Have you finished?

• Stop now.

• Any questions?

• Collect your work please.

• Pack up your books.

• One minute to finish that activity. It’s nearly time to go.

• Are your desks tidy?

• Don’t forget to bring your … tomorrow.

• The next class is waiting (outside/ to come in)

• You’ll be late for your next class (if you don’t stop now)

• We’ll have to finish this tomorrow/ in the next lesson

• Look at the time/ What time is it now?

• That’s all (we have time) for today.

Not time to stop

• The bell hasn’t gone yet.

• The lesson doesn’t finish till ten past.

• Hang on a moment.

• We seem to have finished early.

• Just a moment, please.

• Just a sec/ Just a second/ Wait for it!

• There are still three minutes to go.

• Just hold on a moment.

• One more thing before you go.

• We still have a couple of minutes left.

• Your watch must be fast.

• We have an extra five minutes.

• Sit quietly until the bell goes.

• Tom, you have to stay five extra minutes (as I told you earlier/ because you…)

• Back to your places.

• Stay where you are for a moment.

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.

Leaving the room

• Form a queue (UK) and wait for the bell.

• Get into a queue (UK).

• Be quiet as you leave. Other classes are still working.

• Try not to make any noise as you leave.

• It’s tidy up time

• Everybody outside!

• All of you get outside now!

• Hurry up and get out!

• Line up