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Classroom Language

The document provides a comprehensive guide on classroom language for English teachers, covering phrases and instructions for various classroom situations, including greetings, instructions, and managing spontaneous situations. It includes sections on starting and ending lessons, giving homework, and responding to students, along with error correction and feedback phrases. The aim is to equip teachers with effective communication tools to enhance classroom management and student engagement.

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Classroom Language

The document provides a comprehensive guide on classroom language for English teachers, covering phrases and instructions for various classroom situations, including greetings, instructions, and managing spontaneous situations. It includes sections on starting and ending lessons, giving homework, and responding to students, along with error correction and feedback phrases. The aim is to equip teachers with effective communication tools to enhance classroom management and student engagement.

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‫‪Classroom Language‬‬
‫اللغة المستخدمة داخل الصف‬
‫لمادة اللغة اإلنكليزية‬

‫‪By: Miqdam Mahdy‬‬


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‫يحتوي هذا الكراس على ما يلي‪:‬‬

‫‪ .1‬اللغة التي تستخدم عند بداية الدرس‪:‬‬


‫أ‪ .‬التحية‬
‫ب‪ .‬التقديم‪.‬‬
‫ت‪ .‬وقت بدء الدرس‪.‬‬
‫ث‪ .‬االنتظار لبدء الدرس‪.‬‬
‫ج‪ .‬أسئلة عامة عن الطلبة داخل الصف‪.‬‬
‫ح‪ .‬ماذا تقول عندما يتأخر طالب عن الدرس‪.‬‬
‫‪ .2‬تعليمات مبسطة تعطى للطالب لتوجيهه داخل الصف منذ بداية الدرس وحتى نهايته‪.‬‬
‫‪ .3‬ماذا يجب ان نقول عندما نريد انهاء الوقت لفعالية من فعاليات الدرس وكذلك التوجيهات‬
‫عند إعطاء واجب بيتي‪.‬‬
‫‪ .4‬اللغة المستخدمة عند حدوث حاالت تلقائية داخل الصف وأسلوب التعامل معها في اللغة‬
‫اإلنكليزية المبسطة‪.‬‬
‫‪ .5‬الحاالت االعتيادية داخل الصف وكيفية ادارتها‪.‬‬
‫‪ .6‬التنظيم د اخل الصف وإعطاء التوجيهات اللزمة باللغة اإلنكليزية المبسطة‪.‬‬

‫‪By: Miqdam Mahdy‬‬


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Classroom Language

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. Instructions
• My name is Mr. / Mrs. / Ms Kim. 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.

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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 Sunday, ( )?
• 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.

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Classroom language: Simple Instructions.

1. Here are some common instructions which the class can easily
understand:
• Come in.
• Go out.
• Stand up.
• Sid down.
• Come to the front of the class.
• Stand by your desks.
• Put your hand up.
• Put your hand down.
• Hold your books / pens up.
• Show me your pencil.
2. A number of instructions can be used at the beginning of a session,
and as the semester continues.
• Pay attention, everybody.
• You need a pencil / rulers.
• We'll learn how to ……
• Are you ready?
• Open your books at page.
• Turn to page……
• Look at activity five.
• Listen to this tape.
• Repeat after me.

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• Again, please.
• Everybody……..
• You have five minutes to do this.
• Who's next?
• Like this, not like that.
3. A number of instructions can be used at the end of the session and as
the semester continues.
• It's time to finish.
• Have you finished?
• Let's stop now.
• Stop now.
• Let's check the answers tomorrow.
• Any questions?
• Collect your work please.
• Pack up your books.
• Are your desks tidy?
• Don’t forget to bring your …….

Instructions can also be sequenced:

• First.
• Next.
• After that.
• Then.
• Finally.

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Comprehension language:

• Are you ready?


• Are you with me?
• Are you OK?
• OK so far.
• Do you get it?
• Do you understand?
• Do you follow me?
• What did you say?
• One more time, please.
• Say it again, please.
• I don’t understand.
• I don’t get it.
• Like this?
• Is it OK?

Classroom Language: the end of the lesson.

1. Time to stop.
• It's almost time to stop.
• I'm afraid it's time to finish now.
• We'll have to stop here.
• That's all for today. You can go now.

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2. Not time to stop.


• The bell hasn’t gone yet.
• There are still two minutes to go.
• We still have a couple of minutes left.
• There's the bell. It's time to stop.
• The lesson doesn’t finish till five past ( ).
• We seem to have finished early.
• We have an extra five minutes.
• Sit quietly until the bell goes.
3. Wait a minute.
• Hang on a moment.
• Just hold on a moment.
• Stay where you are for a moment.
• Just a moment, please.
• One more thing before you go.
• Back to your places.
4. Next time.
• We'll do the rest of this chapter next time.
• We'll finish this exercise next lesson.
• We've run out of time, so we'll continue next lesson.
• We'll continue this chapter next Monday.

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5. Home work.
• This is your homework for tonight.
• Do exercise 10 on page 23 for your homework.
• Prepare the next chapter for Monday.
• There is no homework tonight.
• Remember your homework.
• Take a worksheet as you leave.
6. Goodbye.
• Goodbye, everyone.
• See you again next Wednesday.
• See you tomorrow afternoon.
• See you in room 7 after the break.
• Have a good holiday.
• Enjoy your vacation…..
7. Leaving the room.
• Get into a queue.
• Form a queue and wait for the bell.
• Everyone outside!
• All of you get outside now!
• Hurry up and get outside!
• Try not to make any noise as you leaving.
• Be quiet as you leaving. Other classes are still working.

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Classroom Language

The language of spontaneous situations

If you use English in spontaneous situations:

• We relate the target language to the learner’s immediate


environment.
• We take advantage of spontaneous situations to use the target
language.
• We exploit contexts, which are not directly linked to the syllabus
(language in use).

Here are some common situations in which spontaneous English can be


used:

• Happy birthday.
• Many returns (of the day).
• …….. has his / her 12th birthday today.
• ……. is eleven today. Let’s sing “happy Birthday”.
• Best of luck.
• Good luck.
• I hope you pass.
• Congratulations.
• Well done!
• Who’s not here today?
• Who isn’t here?
• What’s wrong with?
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• I’m sorry (about that).


• Sorry, that was my fault.
• I’m terribly sorry.
• Everyone work individually.
• Work by yourselves.
• Work independently.
• Ask your neighbour for help.
• Work on the task together.
• There 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.
• 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.

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Here are some phrases that can be used for classroom management.
Organization.
Giving instructions:
• Open your book at page 52.
• Come out and write it on the board.
• Listen to the tape, please.
• Get into groups of four.
• Finish off this song at home.
• Let’s sing a song.
• Everybody, please.
• All together now.
• The whole class, please.
• I want you all to join in.
• 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 3?
• Excuse me for a moment.
• I’ll be back in a minute.
• Carry on with the exercise while I am away.
• I’ve got to go next door for a moment.

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• I hope you all have a good Christmas.


• Happy New year!
• All the best for the new year.
• I’m afraid I can’t speak any louder.
• I seem to be losing my voice.
• I have a sore throat.
• I have a headache.
• I’m feeling under the weather.
• Do you mind if I sit down?
• Hard lines!
• Never mind.
• Better luck next time ……

Here are some common situation in which classroom management is


needed:

• 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.
• Sit back to back.
• Work together with your friend.
• Find a partner.
• Work in pairs / threes / fours / fives.
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• Work in groups of two / three / four.


• I want you to form groups.
• Form groups of three.
• Here are some task for you to work on in groups of four.

Sequencing:

• First of all, today,……..


• 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 questions are you on?
• Next one, please.
• Who hasn’t answered yet?
• Let me explain what I want 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.
• Can you all se the board?
• Have you find the place?
• Are you all ready?

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Supervision:

• Look this way.


• Stop talking.
• Listen to what ….. is saying.
• Leave that alone now.
• Be careful.

Responding to questions:

• Yes, that’s right.


• Fine.
• Almost. Try again.
• What about this word?

Explanations.

Metalanguage:

• What’s the Korean for “doll”?


• Explain it in your own word.
• It’s spelt with capital “J”.
• Can anybody correct this sentence?
• Fil in the missing words.
• Make the right alternative.

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Interaction.

Affective attitudes:

• That’s interesting!
• That really is very kind of you.
• Don’t worry about it.
• I was a bit disappointed with your efforts.

Interrogation.

Asking questions:

• Where’s Min-su?
• Is Min-su in the kitchen?
• Tell me where Min-su is.
• What was the house like?
• What do you think?
• How can you tell?

Social ritual:

• Good morning.
• God bless!
• Have a nice weekend.
• Thanks for your help.

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Classroom language: Error Correction.

Here are some phrases that can be used when giving feedback to
students:

• Very good.
• You did a great job.
• Right.
• That’s very good.
• Magnificent.
• Yes.
• Well done.
• Terrific.
• Excellent.
• Fine.
• Very fine.
• Wow!
• Quite right.
• That’s nice.
• Jolly good.
• That’s right.
• I like that.
• Great stuff.
• That’s it.
• Marvelous.
• Fantastic.
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• That’s correct.
• That’s quite right.
• It depends.
• It might be, I suppose.
• In a way, perhaps.
• Sort of, yes.
• That’s more like it.
• That’s much better.
• That’s a lot better.
• You’ve improved a lot.
• Not really.
• Unfortunately, not.
• I’m afraid that’s not quite right.
• You can’t say that, I’m afraid.
• You can’t use that word here.
• Good try, but not quite right.
• Have another try, try again.
• Not exactly.
• There is nothing wrong with your answer.
• What you said was perfectly all right.
• You didn’t make a single mistake.
• That’s exactly the point.
• That’s just what I was looking for.
• You have good pronunciation.

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• Your pronunciation is very good.


• You are pronouncing well.
• You speak very fluently.
• You have made a lot of progress.
• You were almost right.
• That’s almost it.
• You’re halfway there.
• You’ve almost got it.
• You’re on the right lines.
• There’s no need to rush.
• There’s no hurry.
• We have plenty of time.
• Go on, have a try.
• Have a go.
• Have a guess.
• Don’t worry about your pronunciations.
• Don’t worry about your spelling.
• Don’t worry it will improve.
• May be this will help.
• Do you want a clue (Hint)?
• You still have some trouble with pronunciation.
• You need more practice with these words.
• You will have to spend some time practicing this.
• You’re getting better at it all the time.
• You’ve improved no end.

Typed by: Miqdam M.A.

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