Classroom Phrases for Teacher ~ IQBS

Classroom Language Journal

Created by : Laeli Ro'fatul Anisah

THE BEGINNING OF THE LESSON

Greetings

— Good morning class

— Good afternoon everyone

— Hello, everybody

— Hello there

— How are you today?

— How’s it going?

— What are you up to?

— How are you getting on?

— How are things with you?

— what’s news?

— How’s life?

Introductions

— My name is Mr/Mrs/Ms Renata. I will teach you History.

— I am your new history teacher.

— We have four lessons each week

— I hope you enjoy learning history with me

Time to begin

— Lets’s begin the class by reciting Du’a together

— Before study let’s pray together

— Gilang, could you please lead du’a/ the pray?

— Let’s begin our lesson right now

— It’s time to begin, please be quiet

— Settle down, so we can start

— Alright, let’s get started

— I think we can start now

— Pay attention please

— Stop talking and be quiet

Register

— I’ll check you one by one

— Whose name is called, please say “present/i’am/ i’m here

— Who is absent today?

— Who is’nt here today?

— What’s wrong with Sarah today?

— Why were you absent last Monday?

— Ok, its complete

Put your things away

— Close your books

— Pack your things away

— Poot your books away

Late

— Did you oversleep?

— Where have you been, Gina?

— We already start 15 minutes ago, What have you been up to?

— Did you late for breakfast/lunch?

— Did you picked up the clothesline?

DURING THE LESSON

A. COMMON INSTURCTIONS

Instructions can be used at the beginning of a session

— Are you ready?

— Open your books at page 75

— Pay attention class

— Repeat after me

— Today we are going to learn about....

— Who else?

— What else?

Comprehension Language

— Do you understand?

— Do you get it?

— Do you follow me?

— Got it?

— Come again please/ what was that?/ excuse me?

— Are you OK?

— Is this clear?

Other coomon instructions

— Come in

— Stand up

— Sit down

— Come forward

— Go ahead

— Rise your hand

— Put your hands up

— Put your hands down

— Write down on your book

— Submit your task on my desk

— Have you finished?

B. CLASSROOM MANAGAMENT

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.

C. ERROR CORRECTIONS

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.

D. 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

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 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 and wait for the bell.
Get into a queue
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