CLASSROOM LANGUAGE

What is classroom language?

A kind of language necessary to communicate and survive without having to use the students’ mother tongue

What are the exponents?

The beginning of the lesson Classroom management The closing of the lesson Error correction Spontaneous situations

The beginning of the class

Greeting Introductions Register Time to begin Waiting to start Put your things away Late

Greeting

Good morning, everybody Good afternoon, everyone Hello, everyone Hello there, James How are you today? I hope you’re all

feeling well How are you getting on? how’s life? How are things with you? Are you feeling better today, Bill?

Introduction

Let me introduce myself. My name is Mr/Mrs/Ms. Kim. I’m your new English teacher.

I’ll be teaching you English this year.

I’ve got two lessons with you each week

Register

Who is absent today? Who is missing? Who isn’t here today? What’s the matter with Diana today? What’s wrong with Jim today? Who was absent last time? Who wasn’t here last Friday? Why were you absent last Friday, Bill?

Time to begin

Let’s begin our lesson now Is everybody ready to start? Today

we’re going to discuss/learn about… I hope you are all ready for English

lesson I think we can start now It’s time to 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? Well, sit down and get started Please hurry up and sit down. We’ve

already started. That’s all right. Sit down and we can start Try not to be late next time Try to be here on time next time Don’t let it happen again.

Thank you