Classroom English

1. Classroom English RITA LEE

2. A. Getting the pupils ready for class • 1.It's time for class. • 2.Let's begin our lesson. • 3.Stand up, please! • 4.Good morning, boys and girls! • 5.I will teach you English this term. • 6.I am a teacher trainee. • 7.Good morning, teacher! • 8.Good afternoon, class!

3. 9.Good afternoon, teacher! • 10.Sit down, please. • 11.Have you got anything to report to the class, monitor? • 12.Who is absent today? • 13.Zhang Ming is absent. • 14.Is everyone here? • 15.Everyone is here except Li Ning. • 16.Why is he absent? • 17.He is ill. He has asked for sick leave. 18.Are you a new pupil?

4. 19.Allow me to introduce myself, please. • 20.Where are you from? • 21.I am from Beijing. • 22.How did you spend your Sunday? 23.We had a picnic. • 24.We had a very good time. • 25.What time is it now? • 26.It's ten past eight. • 27.Open the window, please. • 28.Please shut the door. It is very cold today.

5. Leave the window open, please. • 30.How are you? • 31.Fine, thank you ,and you? • 32.I'm fine too. • 33.May I have your name? • 34.My name is Wan Lin. • 35.Be quiet, please. • 36.Silence,please. • 37.Stop talking. • 38.Don't talk any more.

6. 39.Who is on duty today? • 40.I am on duty. • 41.You have done your duty very well. • 42.Your classroom looks clean and tidy. • 43.Where is the chalk? • 44.In the drawer. • 45.Next time please put the eraser and chalk on the teacher‘s desk before class. • 46.May i come in? Yes, please. • 47.I am sorry I am late. • 48.Please excuse me for coming late.

7. 49.Don‘t be late next time. • 50.Please come early next time. • 51.Get up early in the morning, please. • 52.Have you finished your homework? • 53.Hand in your homework, please. • 54.Monitor,have you collected all the homework? • 55.Yes, here it is. • 56.No, not yet. • 57.Some of us haven‘t finished yet. • 58.I am sorry I didn't do my homework.

8. 59.I am sorry I can't hand in my homework, because I didn't feel well yesterday evening. • 60.Take out your homework, please. • 61.I am sorry I have left my homework at home. • 62.May I hand in my homework tomorrow? • 63.You must hand in your homework on time. • 64.Hand it in after class. • 65.Make it up after school. • 66.I will bring it with me next time. • 67.You've done your homework very well.

9. 68.Your handwriting is excellent. • 69.Have you all prepared your lessons well? 70.I will see how well you have prepared your lessons for today.

10. B. Revision • 71.Let's have a review of Lesson 5. • 72.I'd like to give you a quiz about some phrases in Lesson 5. • 73.We have studied Lesson8. Now let me check up on you a little. • 74.Huang Ping and Wang Min, come to the front, please. 75.Here‘s a picture for you. Look at it. • 76.I'll ask you some questions. • 77.Is there a plane in the picture? • 78.No,there isn't.

11. 79.What is there in the picture? • 80.There is a house ,a tree and a dog. • 81.Where is the tree and the dog? • 82.The tree is beside the house. • 83.The dog is in front of the tree. • 84.OK,class,say these sentences again, please. • 85.Very good, go back to your seat, please. • 86.Where is Huang Ping now? • 87.He is sitting behind Wang Min. • 88.Let‘s look at the blackboard.

12. 89.Zhang Ling, read your sentence, please. • 90.Is her sentence correct? • 91.No, the word order is wrong. • 92.She didn‘t use this word properly. • 93.Lin Lan, please recite the text. • 94.Good! You have done a good job.

13. 95.You did quite well on the first two paragraphs, but you didn’t recite the last two paragraphs smoothly. • 96.You didn‘t recite well this time. Try to do better next time. • 97.Can you answer this question, Li Ping? • 98.Yes,no problem.

14. 99.Let's say the numbers from 1--100. • 100.Please write down the numbers 1--20. • 101.How many boys are there in your class? • 102.One, two, three---There are twenty boys in our • 103.Let's discuss Exercises 1 and 3 in Lesson 9. • 104.Please retell the story of "The Emperor's New Clothes". • 105.What’s the weather like today? • 106.It's fine. • 107.Nice weather, isn’t it? • 108.No, it's windy.

15. 109.What should you say in this situation? • 110.How do you explain this word? • 111.In English or in our own language? • 112.You have to explain it in English. • 113.What is an emperor? • 114.An Emperor is like the king of a country. • 115.Who can translate this sentence into Chinese? • 116.What do you think about Gao Feng‘s translation? • 117.What‘s wrong with Gao Feng’s translation? • 118.Please take out a piece of paper. Let‘s have a dictation.

16. 119.I am reading it for the last time now. • 120.Check your dictation. • 121.We have studied the word “market”. Now, Let‘s discuss how to use it in a sentence. • 122.Does your mother often go to the market? • 123.Yes,she goes there every day. • 124.When does she go there? • 125.She goes there in the morning. • 126.What does she buy? • 127.She buys some vegetables.

17. 128.Do you live mear a market? • Yes, we do. • 129.What do they sell there? • 130.They sell vegetables, bread, meat, bananas and oranges.

18. C. Presentation • 131.We are going to have a new lesson today. • 132.First we‘ll study five new words and then look at the dialogue. • 133.Stop talking, please. • 134.Don't be noisy! • 135.What do you think it is ? • 136.It may be a panda. • 137.Let's play this game. • 138.Let me teach you an English song.

19. 139.Can you guess what it is? • 140.Open your books to page 10. • 141.Let‘s start from where we left off yesterday. • 142.Let's begin at the 12th line. • 143.Close your books. • 144.Think it over. • 145.Think for a while. • 146.Try again. • 147.I shall tell you something about the author's life. • 148.Now you are going to read the text one by one.

20. 149.It's your turn now, Li Jun. • 150.Let‘s go on to the next sentence. • 151.What am I holding? • 152.Say after me, "apple". • 153.What's the date today. • 154.It's the eleventh of October. • 155.What day is today? • 156.It's Monday. • 157.It's very kind of you to help me. • 158.Thank you very much indeed.

21. 159.You are welcome. • 160.Sure. • 161.Once more, "tape recorder". • 162.Let‘s listen to the “portrait of a Teacher”. • 163.What did you hear? • 164.What important news did the father read in the evening paper?

22. 165.What did the father and his son do that Saturday afternoon? • 166.On their way back home, what did the father tell his son? • 167.What do you think of the reader‘s pronunciation? • 168.Her pronunciation is very clear and correct.

23. 169.Any other opinions? • 170.This morning we are going to have a slide show class. • 171.I am going to show you some slides. • 172.Now look at the first slide, please. • 173.Who do you see in the slide?

24. 174.I‘ll begin by asking you some questions on yesterday’s lesson. • 175.It‘s at the bottom of the page. • 176.The second line from the top (bottom). • 177.Is there going to be a sports meet next Sunday? • 178.Are you going to take part in any of the events, Liu Fang?

25. 179.What event are you good at? • 180.I am good at the high jump. • 181.We like sports. • 182.Can you understand what I am saying? • 183.Do you know what I mean? • 184.Do you understand what I said? • 185.Does that make sense? • 186.Is everything clear to you? • 187.What does the word "focus" here mean? • 188.Raise your hand if you don‘t understand.

26. 189.I'll explain again. • 190.Look at the text on page 5, please. • 191.Ask each other questions about the picture. • 192.What's this in English? • 193.It is a tiger. • 194.Do you have a dictionary? • 195.Can you use the English--Chinese dictionary? • 196.Look up the word in the dictionary. • 197.Have you got a pen? • 198.Don't forget to bring your pen next time.

27. 199.Be careful with your ink. • 200.Who knows how to operate the computer? • 201.Who can tell us a story in English? • 202.Today we will read and explain the new words in Lesson 9 first, then we‘ll work on the text. • 203.Let us do some listening practice. • 204.Let's start our vocabulary work. • 205.This word has the same form in the singular as in the plural. • 206.This word can be used either as a verb or as a noun. • 207.How do you spell this word? • 208.This word comes from Latin.

28. 209.Could you tell me the difference between the two words? • 210.You can guess the meaning of the word from the context. • 211.This sentence is American English. • 212.Can you make a sentence with this word?

29. 213.Please say something about this picture. • 214.What's the title of the story? • 215.This text is selected from a novel. • 216.Let me tell you something about the background of the article.

30. 217.Let me explain some difficult sentences in this text. • 218.This phrase has different meanings in different contexts. • 219.Compare the two translations and see which is better. • 220.Have I made everything clear to you?

31. D. Drill • 221.You‘ve mispronounced the word “right”. • 222.You said “bed” instead of “bad”. • 223.The "t" is silent in the word "often". • 224.I‘ll help you to improve your pronunciation and intonation. • 225.Attention, please! • 226.May I have your attention! • 227.Listen to me carefully. • 228.Where do you go to school?

32. 229.What school are you in? • 230.We are in No.2 Junior High School. • 231.We are in No.5High School. • 232.We are in the High School attached to Beijing Normal University. • 233.What class are you in? • 234.We are in class 6. • 235.Don‘t interrupt him. • 236.Say it slowly! • 237.It‘s better this time. • 238.I‘ll repeat it.

33. 239.Will you say it again? • 240.I‘ll say it once more. • 241.There is no need to translate everything. • 242.Stop here. • 243.What‘s wrong with you, Zhang Hua? • 244.I‘ve got a headache. • 245.Now, let‘s read it together. • 246.Reading aloud is very important. • 247.Read slowly and loudly. • 248.I‘ll read the text for you.

34. 249.Is this dialogue interesting? • 250.Don‘t be nervous. • 251.Did you say “beg ”or “bag ”? • 252.You must learn to take notes. • 253.Take down the examples I give you. • 254.Say it louder so that everyone in the class can hear you. • 255.What would you say to his answer, class? • 256.Excuse me, may I ask you a question? • 257.Can you give us an example? • 258.Open your mouth wide when you pronounce this sound.

35. 259.Don‘t use the nasal sound. • 260.Put the stress in the right place. • 261.Don‘t pause here. • 262.Here we should use a rising tone. • 263.A falling tone can not be used here. • 264.Let‘s read in unison. • 265.Pronounce this word, please. • 266.Now try to replace the word with some other words. • 267.Make these sentences negative. • 268.Ask questions about the underlined parts.

36. 269.This sentence is in the active voice. Can you change it into the passive voice? • 270.Is it a simple or a compound sentence? • 271.Let‘s do the pattern drill. You must respond as quickly as possible. • 272.Do this drill in groups of four. • 273.Don‘t write while I’m reading. • 274.I‘ll read the story sentence by sentence for you to write down. • 275.I‘ll read it once more from the very beginning.

37. 276.Is it correct to use the present tense? • 277.If you go on like this, you will not make any progress. • 278.Great pains must be taken to master a foreign language. • 279.We can‘t learn English well without first training ourselves to speak it. • 280.Don‘t be afraid of making mistakes.

38. E. Practice • 281. Who wants to try? • 282.Who would like to answer my question? • 283.Please raise your hand. • 284.Let‘s have the students in the first row read the text. • 285.Don‘t be shy. • 286.Good! Very good! • 287.Hum, not quite. • 288.What are your favorite subjects?

39. 289.Biology and mathematics. • 290.Read the new words and phrases, please. • 291.Will you please correct me if I make a mistake? • 292.Read the second paragraph, please. • 293.This is good practice. • 294.Is that the right word? • 295.Anything wrong? • 296.That‘s perfectly correct. • 297.I‘m afraid it’s wrong. • 298.Spell the word "soldier".

40. 299.Who will volunteer to answer this question? • 300.Any volunteers? • 301.Will you check my spelling, please? • 302.This is quite easy. • 303.Very well done this time. • 304.Excellent. • 305.What mistake did he make?

41. 306.Who has a different answer? • 307.Would anyone like to add anything? • 308.That will do. • 309.That‘s all right. • 310.That‘s it. • 311.Please read the word syllable by syllable. • 312.Pay attention to stress on the sentence. • 313.You read much better now. Keep it up. • 314.If you want to express yourself freely, you must have a large vocabulary.

42. 315.These two words are identical in meaning. • 316.Can you tell the story in your own words? • 317.Let‘s divide our class into two groups, one group asks questions, the other answers. • 318.Liu Lu, make a sentence using the pattern. • 319.Now let‘s do sentence--changing exercises.

43. 320.Please change the declarative sentence into an interrogative one. • 321.Now let‘s practise the dialogue in pairs. • 322.Now let‘s act out the model dialogue. • 323.Well ,Li Yang ,you act as A, Wei Hua, you act as B. • 324.Have you learned the word by heart?

44. 325.Let‘s do it next time. • 326.I‘ll ask two students to give us a dialogue about our school library. • 327.I‘m afraid I have to cut you short. • 328.Now let‘s try another type of exercise----asking and answering questions. • 329.Your dialogue was well---organized. • 330.I‘m satisfied with your answer. • 331.Now fire questions at him. • 332.You may ask someone to stand up and answer your questions.

45. 333.Youmust know, think hard. • 334.Please write the sentence in your exercise book. • 335.This is a common mistake made by Chinese students. • 336.You can understand English better now. • 337.Good, you can speak more fluently now. • 338.Very good, you can express yourself in English quite freely now. • 339.You have made less mistakes in spelling this time. • 340.Pratice makes perfect.

46. F. Consolidation • 341.Any more questions? • 342.Have you (got ) any other questions to ask? • 343.Please see me after class if you don‘t understand. • 344.Does "ring "have more than one meaning? • 345.Is there a difference in meaning between "good "and "excellent "? • 346.What does "U. S. A. "mean? • 347.Try to answer the question as simply as you can. • 348.Your answer is not to the point.

47. 349.Be direct when you answer the question. • 350.Keep to the point. Make your answer short. • 351.Answer briefly. • 352. You have missed the main point. • 353. You are going too far. • 354. You did quite well in answering questions. • 355. What‘s the central idea of the passage ? • 356. Give me the main point of the article. • 357. Outline the story. • 358.What do you think of this ? Give reasons.

48. 359. What is your impression of the story ? • 360. How should we put it into Chinese ? • 361.Pay special attention to your spelling. • 362.That‘s all. Pens down. • 363.Pass your exercise---books to the front. • 364.Read and memorize the paragraph in Exercise 2. • 365.You must review today‘s lesson before doing your exercises. • 366.Learn the text by heart and do Exercises 4 and 5on page 63. • 367.For your homework, please review the text carefully and be prepared for a test.

49. 368.Write a brief outline of the text. • 369.Write a summary of the story. • 370.Write 10 sentences about your parents. • 371.Write a composition of about 200 words on the topic “computers”. • 372.Write a letter to your friend telling them about your life at school.

50. 373.You had better write on every other line, leave a space for corrections. • 374.Every student must do his or her homework carefully and finish it on time. • 375.The final examination is coming in two weeks. I hope every one of you will pass the exam and get high scores. • 376.I would like to give you some advice on how to review your lessons.