Classroom English: 300+ Classroom Phrases For English Teachers

 

Learn an extensive list of 300+ classroom English phrases for English teachers with ESL printable infographics.

THE BEGINNING OF THE LESSON | Classroom English

Greetings

• Hello, everyone.
• Good morning, everybody.
• Good afternoon, class.
• Hello there, Tom.
• Good afternoon, everybody.
• How are you today?
• How are you getting on?
• How’s life?
• How are things with you?
• Are you feeling better today, David?
• What a lovely day!
• What a rainy day!
• Today is very cold, isn’t it?

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.

Put your things away

• Pack your things away.
• Close your books.
• Put your books away.

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?

DURING THE LESSON | Classroom English

Classroom English | Common instructions

Instructions can be used at the beginning of a session

• Are you ready?
• Everybody …
• Pay attention, everybody.
• Open your books at page…
• You need pencils/rulers.
• We’ll learn how to …
• You have five minutes to do this.
• Turn to page …
• Look at activity five.
• Listen to this tape.
• Repeat after me.
• Again, please.
• Who’s next?
• Like this, not like that.

Comprehension language

• Do you get it?
• Are you with me?
• Are you OK?
• Do you follow me?
• OK so far?
• Do you understand?
• What did you say?
• One more time, please.
• Say it again, please.
• Like this?
• Is this OK?

Other common instructions

• 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.

Classroom English | Classroom management

Giving instructions

• Open your books at page 75.
• I want you all to join in.
• The whole class, please.
• All together now.
• Come out and write it on the board.
• Listen to the tape, please.
• Get into groups of four.
• Finish off this song at home.
• Everybody, please.
• 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 4?
• Can you all see the board?

Sequencing

• First/ First of all, today, …
• After that/ Then
• 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 question are you on?
• Next/ Next one, please.
• Who hasn’t answered yet?
• Let me explain what I want you 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.
• Have you found the place?
• Are you all ready?

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

• Yes, that’s right,
• Fine.
• Almost. Try again.
• What about this word?

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.

Classroom English | Error correction

Giving feedback to students

• 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.

• You’re on the right lines (UK).
• There’s no hurry.
• Have a guess.
• That’s almost it.
• You’re halfway there.
• You’ve almost got it.
• You were almost right.
• There’s no need to rush.
• We have plenty of time

• 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.

Classroom English | Special situations

• Happy birthday!
• Merry Christmas!
• I hope you all have a good Christmas.
• Happy New Year!
• All the best for the New Year.
• Happy Easter.
• Tom has his 11th birthday today.
• Anna is eleven today. Let’s sing “Happy Birthday”.
• Cheerio now.
• God bless!
• Have a nice weekend.
• Thanks for your help.

• Best of luck.
• Good luck.
• I hope you pass.
• Congratulations!
• Well done!

• Hard lines!
• Never mind.
• Better luck next time.

• Do you feel better today?
• Are you better now?
• Have you been ill?
• What was the matter?

• I’ll be back in a moment.
• Carry on with the exercise while I’m away.
• I’ve got to go next door for a moment.

• I’m afraid I can’t speak any louder.
• I seem to be losing my voice.
• I have a headache.
• I’m feeling under the weather.
• Do you mind if I sit down?
• I have a sore throat.

THE END OF THE LESSON | Classroom English

Time to stop

• Let’s stop now.
• It’s time to finish now.
• It’s almost time to stop.
• I’m afraid it’s time to finish now.
• We’ve run out of time.
• We’ll have to stop here.
• There’s the bell. It’s time to stop.
• That’s all for today. You can go now.
• Have you finished?
• Stop now.
• Any questions?
• Collect your work please.
• Pack up your books.
• One minute to finish that activity. It’s nearly time to go.
• Are your desks tidy?
• Don’t forget to bring your … tomorrow.
• The next class is waiting (outside/ to come in)
• You’ll be late for your next class (if you don’t stop now)
• We’ll have to finish this tomorrow/ in the next lesson
• Look at the time/ What time is it now?
• That’s all (we have time) for today.

Not time to stop

• The bell hasn’t gone yet.
• The lesson doesn’t finish till ten past.
• Hang on a moment.
• We seem to have finished early.
• Just a moment, please.
• Just a sec/ Just a second/ Wait for it!
• There are still three minutes to go.
• Just hold on a moment.
• One more thing before you go.
• We still have a couple of minutes left.
• Your watch must be fast.
• We have an extra five minutes.
• Sit quietly until the bell goes.
• Tom, you have to stay five extra minutes (as I told you earlier/ because you…)
• Back to your places.
• Stay where you are for a moment.

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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