Classroom English - 300+ Classroom Phrases For English Teachers - 7ESL
Classroom English - 300+ Classroom Phrases For English Teachers - 7ESL
Classroom English - 300+ Classroom Phrases For English Teachers - 7ESL
Table of Contents
• THE BEGINNING OF THE LESSON | Classroom English
• Greetings
• Introductions
• Time to begin
• Put your things away
• Register
• Late
• DURING THE LESSON | Classroom English
• Classroom English | Common instructions
• Classroom English | Classroom management
• Classroom English | Error correction
• Classroom English | Special situations
• THE END OF THE LESSON | Classroom English
• Time to stop
• Not time to stop
• Homework
• Next time
• Goodbye
• Leaving the room
• Classroom Language For English Teachers | Images
• Classroom English For Teachers | Image 1
• Useful Classroom English For Teachers | Image 2
• Classroom English For English Teachers | Image 3
• Classroom English Video
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.
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?
Comprehension language
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.
Giving instructions
Sequencing
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
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.
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.
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.
Best of luck.
Good luck.
I hope you pass.
Congratulations!
Well done!
Hard lines!
Never mind.
Better luck next time.
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
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Fayaz Ahmad
May 17, 2023 at 7:17 am
Anonymous
May 26, 2023 at 6:10 pm
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June 12, 2023 at 10:19 pm
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