Functional Language: Expressions at School

                                   Expressions at School

➜Beginning the class 

• Hello! Hi! Good morning! Good afternoon!
• Take off your jackets, please. Close the door, please. Write the date on the board, please. 
• Take out your books, please. Give out the books, please. Alicia, share your book with Laura, please.
• Exercise one at the top of page three. Activity two at the bottom of page three. Which exercise are we doing? 
• Work in groups of three. Work in pairs. Work on your own. 
• Have you done your homework? 
• Juan isn’t here today. He is not well. 
• Have you got a pencil? Can I borrow your rubber? Can you lend me a rubber, please? 
• Ready? Let’s start. David, you start. 
• What did you say Juan? 
• Just a moment. Wait a minute. Hold on a second.

➜Classroom materials 

• A sheet of paper. Has everyone got a sheet of paper? 
• The textbooks. Put your textbooks in your schoolbags. 
• The activity books. The activity books are on the shelf.
• The workbook. Pepe, collect in the workbooks, please.
• A flashcard. The flashcards go in that box.
• A poster. Help me stick this poster on the wall.
• A dictionary. Do you need a dictionary?
• Your picture dictionary. Draw it in your picture dictionary.
• The calendar. Hang the calendar next to the door.
• The weather chart. Let’s all look at the weather chart.
• The chalk. A piece of chalk. The chalk is finished.
• Some plasticine. Get some plasticine and make an animal.
• The crayons. The crayons are Laura’s. 
• Felt tips. The felt tips are dry.
• Coloured pencils. Colour it in with your coloured pencils.
• A pair of scissors. Has anyone seen my pair of scissors? 
• Some pots of paint. The pots of paint are empty.
• Paintbrushes. Clean your paintbrushes.
• A rubber. There’s a rubber on the floor.
• Glue. Pass the glue, please.
• A piece of sellotape. Cut me a piece of sellotape, please.
• A drawing pin. A tack. Careful, there’s a tack on the floor.
• A stapler. Be careful with the stapler. Staples. Don’t touch the staples.
• A ruler. A ruler is for measuring.
• A cloth. Clean the table with the cloth.
• The puppet. The puppet only speaks English.
• The coloured rods. I can’t find the coloured rods.
• A mask. Let’s make a mask.

➜Giving instructions

• Please repeat after me. Could you repeat that, please? First listen, and then repeat. Say it with me.
• Give me some more examples, please. 
• Do you understand? 
• Alicia, read the next sentence. Can you read this word? 
• Look at exercise two. Can you read the instructions, please?
• Keep going.
• Can you speak louder? 
• What does …. mean? Can you spell it, please? How do you spell … , please? 
• Is this correct?
• Can you write it on the board, please?
• What’s the English word for … ?
• Could you repeat that, please? I’m sorry, I don’t understand.
• What page are we on? 
• Shall I go on?
• Can we play a game?
• Can I see your exercises, please? Please do the following exercises.
• Has anyone got a spare pen/pencil/rubber?
• Let’s practise that again. 
• Who has finished?
• Come here, please. Go back to your seat.
• Look at the board. 
• Listen to the cassette. Listen to me.
• Tell me the answer. Write the answers. Read the question.
• Colour the picture. Cut it out. Draw a ... Point to the ...
• Show me your work.
• Put your pencils down.
• Watch the video.
• Say the whole sentence, please.
• Say it again, please. Say it in English, please!
• Say it more slowly.
• Copy these words into your notebooks
• Don’t start yet! You can start now.
• Come to the front, please.
• Correct your partner’s work.
• Put your hand up if you don’t understand. Put your hand up if you know the answer.
• Fill in the gaps.
• Match the words and the pictures. Match the words to the pictures.
• Finish the exercise.
• Do the crossword on page seven.
• Look for the words. Unjumble the sentences.
• Let’s play bingo/hangman. 
• Can you all see?
• Is that right? 
• Pull down the blinds, please. Turn off the tap. Flush the toilet and wash your hands.
• Copy me. Follow me.
• Fold the paper. Stick it on the poster. Put it on the wall.
• Tie your shoe laces.
• Wipe your nose! Blow your nose! Use a hankie!
• Bless you!
• Hurry up!
• Hands up! Hands down!

➜Controlling the class

• Please be quiet! Speak quietly! Can’t you speak more softly? No noise, please.
• Stop chatting! Stop speaking! Whisper, don’t shout! Silence! Shut up, will you? 
• Please pay attention!
• Don’t do that! Don’t touch! Put that away! 
• Calm down! Settle down! Sit still!
• Juan, stop bothering David!
• Stop playing with your pencil.
• Stop talking and watch the video.
• Stop talking and listen, please.

➜Praise and correction 

• Brilliant! Excellent! Wonderful! 
• Good! Good job! Very good! 
• Great! Very well done!
• Yes, that’s right. That’s it!
• Nice work! 
• Yes! OK!
• That’s not right, try again.
• Not quite right, try again.
• That’s nearly right. That’s better!
• Today I’m happy/not very happy with you.

➜Ending the class 

• Stop working!
• It’s time to go. It’s time for lunch. It’s break-time.
• See you later! See you tomorrow. See you next week! See you on Monday!
• Put away your things! Books away! 
• Clean up! Tidy up! 
• Put it in the bin, please!
• Put on your jackets!
• Clean the board, please. You worked really well today.
• We learned a lot today.
• Goodbye!/Bye-bye!
• Enjoy your holidays! Have a nice weekend!  

Sources: http://www.sehacesaber.org/sehacesaber-admin/userfiles/file/90743_BEST_2.pdf