Basic Classroom Instructions
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Basic Classroom Instructions
Based on Gughes & Moate: Practical Classroom English, Oxford University Press, 2007, and
Mothejzíková: Conducting an English lesson in English, JK, 1992.
This document provides a basic set of classroom instructions and highlights the mistakes that Czech
speakers often make. It is impossible to include all instructions in such a short document, thus,
should you need more detailed lists, kindly refer to the above-mentioned books.
Greetings Good morning, everybody.
Good afternoon.
(!) Good day.
How are you all today?
That’s good.
I’m glad/pleased/happy/sorry to hear that.
I hope you all had a nice weekend.
Taking the register I’ll take the register.
Let’s see if everyone’s here.
I’m going to call your names.
(!) Rise Raise [
] your hand and say
‘Here/Present’.
Who’s absent?
Is anybody missing/away/absent today?
(!) Who’s lacking.
Where’s Mary this morning?
What’s wrong / What’s the matter with Mary?
Does anybody know where Mary is?
Does anybody have any idea where she is?
Is she absent or just late?
When will Mary be back?
Who wasn’t here last time?
Dealing with lateness You’re late.
Where have you been?
We started 10 minutes ago.
What have you been doing?
That’s all right.
It doesn’t matter. Let’s get back to what we
were doing.
Take a/your seat and we can get on.
Try not to be late next time.
Starting work It’s time to start.
I hope you’re all ready for your English lesson.
Take out your namecards and put them on
your desks.
I’m waiting to start.
I’m waiting for you to be quiet.
We won’t start until everybody is quiet.
Now we can get down to (some) work.
Put your things away, please.
(!) in the corridor, in the classroom
Meeting a new class Let me introduce myself.
Allow me to introduce myself.
Perhaps you’re wondering who I am.
Let me tell you something about myself.
My name’s …, but I’d like you to call me …
And what about you?
Can you introduce yourselves to me?
Can you tell your neighbor something about
yourself?
I’m your new English teacher.
My name is … and I’m a trainee/student
teacher.
I’m the substitute for Mr Jones.
I’ll be teaching you English this year.
I’ll be teaching you on Tuesdays and Fridays.
We’ll meet three times a week.
Our lessons start at 9.15 every Monday and
Thursday.
From your timetable/schedule you can see we
start at 11.15 on Friday.