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Phrases & Sentences for school teachersRachers
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Roll call
Be silent and call your roll.
Name, roll number 1, 2, and 3 and
so on.
Is …………………. Absent today?
Where is kiran?
Where were you yesterday?
Beginning of the lesson
§ Please sit down everyone
§ Let’s begin today’s lesson
§ It’s time to begin please stop
talking.
§ Is everybody ready to start?
§ Try to answer my questions.
(Answers may be – right, wrong,
nearly right, very close and almost there etc.)
§ Let’s start on page no.
§ Let’s start on line 10.
§ Turn to page twelve.
§ Please look at the board.
§ Look at your textbook.
§ Now open your textbook to 33.
§ Come to the board and write it on
the board.
§ Write this down in your notebook.
§ Pass back these sheets/handouts.
Reading
§ Please listen carefully.
§ Repeat it/repeat it after me.
§ Ok stop there thank you.
§ Next (student).
§ Read this out loud.
§ What is the ………………………… word for?
§ How do you say it in English?
§ Please summarize the first
photograph.
§ What is the paragraph story
about?
§ Let’s do some translational words.
Questions
§ Any question?
§ Do you have any question?
§ Now I am going to ask you some
questions?
§ Who knows the answer?
§ Raise your hand.
§ Raise your hand if you don’t
understand.
§ Try to answer by yourself.
§ A full sentence please.
§ Say it in a loud voice.
§ Louder please.
§ Again, please
§ Do you understand?
Ending of the lesson
§ There will be no home work for
today.
§ There will be extra home work for
today.
§ For home work, please do the exercise on page
number 11.
§ Today’s home work is ….
§ There will be a test of this
lesson tomorrow.
§ I will take your test tomorrow,
so prepare it well.
§ Tomorrow, we will do this lesson
6th lesson.
§ There is the bell/here goes the
bell.
§ We have run out of time.
§ That’s all for today.
§ Let’s call it a day. Meet you
tomorrow; at the same time, same place and with the same host.
§ Good bye, class.
§ See you on Monday, enjoy your
Sunday.
§ Have nice weekend.
§ See you next week.
§ Good job today.
Situational based teacher’s queries/questions.
§ What are you doing there?
§ What are you looking for?
§ What will you do with it?
§ What’s your question/answer?
§ What’s going on over here?
§ What’s your problem?
§ What’s the matter?
§ What are you hiding?
§ What do you want?
§ What’s wrong with you?
§ Why aren’t wearing your school
dress?
§ What is this?
§ What were we doing yesterday?
§ Why are you so upset?
§ Why so late?
§ Why haven’t you done your
homework?
§ Why were you absent yesterday?
§ Why didn’t you tell me earlier?
§ Why are you
laughing/crying/whispering/shouting?
§ Why don’t you speak in English?
§ Why are you glaring at
me/him/her?
§ Why are you biting nails/pens/pencil?
§ Why are you looking back?
§ Why are you sitting free/idle;
don’t you have any work to do?
§ Where is your
pencil/pen/notebook?
§ Where were you so far?
§ Where were you last days?
§ Who has given you this right?
§ Who told you about this matter/incident?
§ Who do you come to school with?
§ Whom did you take permission for
this? (Water/canteen/office etc.)
Appreciation and scolding sentences
§ Good job/well done.
§ Keep it up.
§ You have done a great piece of
work.
§ You are too good.
§ You are amazing.
§ You are very smart.
§ You are fabulous speaker.
§ You are very obedient student.
§ You have mind blowing ideas.
§ I am very proud of you my dear.
§ Nice try.
§ Don’t be so dumb.
§ It’s very bad manner, feel sorry
to him/her.
§ You have done a very big mistake.
§ You must apologize right now.
§ Be in your limits.
§ Don’t take over advantage of my
leniency.
§ Don’t try to be over smart.
§ How dare you speak like that?
§ Leave my classroom right now.
§ Keep your mouth shut otherwise I
will make you out of the class.
Classroom activity
§ Let’s do an interesting activity
today.
§ Let’s play a game today.
§ Now class; get into groups of
three. We are going to do an activity.
Homework excuses
§ I did it but left my notebook at
home.
§ I didn’t know that it was due
date.
§ I have a note from my parents.
§ I have lost my assignments.
§ Arun has torn my notebook.
§ I was down with fever yesterday.
§ I was out of town.
§ I had an urgent piece of work,
therefore I couldn’t complete it.
Prayer time
§ Attention
§ Stand at ease
§ Ready to turn, right turn.
§ Ready to turn, about turn.
§ Students for prayer come over here.
§ Close your eyes fold your hands and down your head.
§ Let’s listen to the thought of the day.
§ Let’s listen to a motivating story/speech.
§ Let’s listen to the today’s news bulletin.
§ Let’s begin national anthem.
§ Speak in unison.
§ March past to your classes.
1. Classroom
Language: The beginning of the lesson
Good morning
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, David?
Introductions
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.
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.
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.
Put your things
away
Close your books.
Put your books away.
Pack your things away.
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.
A number of instructions.
§ Pay attention, everybody.
§ You need pencils/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.
§ 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 a session:
It's time to finish.
Have you finished?
Let's stop now.
Stop now.
Let's check the answers.
Any questions?
Collect your work please.
Pack up your books.
Are your desks tidy?
Don't forget to bring your ... tomorrow.
Instructions can also be sequenced:
First
Next
After that
Then
Finally
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.
§ There's the bell. It's time to stop.
§ That's all for today. You can go now.
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.
§ The lesson doesn't finish till five past.
§ Your watch must be fast.
§ 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.
5. Homework
§ 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 today.
§ Remember your homework.
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.
§ It's tidy up time
§ Line up
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