Classroom Expressions for a Teacher:
What day is it today?
What date is it today?
What is the weather like today?
Who is on duty today?
Who is absent today?
Well now, let’s begin.
Open the textbooks at page …
Look at the picture on page …
What do you see in the picture?
Do Ex. 10 on page 25. (mind the absence of Article before nouns followed by a numeral)
Go to the blackboard (a teacher is in the middle of a classroom)
Come up to the blackboard (a teacher is at his table)
Go to your seat.
Will you read …? Will you do this task?
Clean the blackboard, please.
Take a piece of chalk, please.
Prepare a sheet of paper.
Right now we shall …
Raise your hands.
Let’s play a game.
Is everything clear?
Do you follow me?
Do you have any questions?
Do you agree with me?
Children, let’s recollect our new rule.
What’s the English / Russian for …?
Answer my questions.
Put questions to the sentence.
Ask questions on / about the text.
And now we shall pass to …
Now I will give out the cards.
No prompting, please.
Work individually / in pairs.
Consult a dictionary.
Don’t be in a hurry.
Speak louder.
Repeat this word. / Say it again.
Pay attention to the sound [w].
Mind your article / preposition / tense.
You must be more attentive.
You have made a mistake.
Copy the new words.
Write down / put down the new words.
Your home task is …
Do this exercise in writing / in written form / orally.
Revise the new rule.
Hand in your exercise-books.
The bell has gone, the lesson is over.
How to express approval:
Excellent / Nice / Great / Very good /
Fine/ Wonderful / Right.
That will do.
Well done.
Good work / job.
You’ve done your best.
You have coped with my task.
I give you a five.
That’s it.
You are working hard today (during the lesson).
You have worked hard today (at the end of the lesson).
You are improving.
I like the way you’ve done it.
What a good listener!
Keep it up!
How to express disapproval:
Not bad.
That won’t do.
You didn’t try.
You’ve made a mistake (a gross mistake).
You could have done (might have done) it better.
I am displeased / dissatisfied with your answer.
You must work hard at your pronunciation / grammar.
Grammar is your weak point, I’m afraid.
Be more active.
Correct your mistakes. / Do the correction of your mistakes.
That won’t do. You must rewrite it.
Teaching Pronunciation
Уровень фонем, фонемосочетаний, слов, словосочетаний
Listen to the sounds …
Listen to the way I say it.
Watch my mouth closely.
Listen to the sounds / to the words and raise your hand when you hear the sound “…”
Match the spelling and the transcription…
Differentiate between the sounds [e] – [æ].
Listen again and say it after me.
Listen and repeat after the teacher.
Clap your hands when you hear words with the sound “…”
Try and do the same.
Pick out words with the sound “…”
Transcribe the following words.
It wasn’t pronounced correctly.
There was a mistake in the pronunciation.
Don’t mix up the sounds [i] and [i:]
Pay attention to the pronunciation of this word.
Be careful with the sound “…”
Уровень интонации
1. Divide the following sentences into sense / intonation groups.
2. Put stresses in the following sentences.
3. Mark pauses in the following text.
4. Read the text observing the necessary stresses and tunes.
5. Prepare a test reading of the text.
6. Retell the story, paying attention to the right pronunciation and intonation.
7. Learn the poem by heart.
Teaching Vocabulary
Write out / copy the words …
Write down / put down the new words …..
Try to guess the meaning of the word …
Find synonyms to these words…
Find the opposites to these words…
Fill in the missing words in the text:…
Fill in the gap with the appropriate word:…
Replace the words in the text with their synonyms:…
Reproduce the text using the following key words:…
Make up a story, using the following key words: …
Fill in the crossword.
In this story / dialogue some words are left out. Put in the missing words in the right order.
13. Find the international words and guess their meaning
Teaching Grammar
Answer these questions.
Make the following sentences interrogative and negative:…
Make up sentences as in the example.
Ask questions about the text.
Open the brackets putting the verbs in the correct tense.
Put the verbs in brackets into the right form.
Give the plural for: …
Complete the following sentences with appropriate phrases…
Write the following sentences on the blackboard and comment on the use of …
Find out when and where these events took place.
Express your doubt / surprise / pleasure / about the following.
Try to guess what happened to …
Help … to do this task.
Describe the picture using the following structures:…
Imagine a situation … and describe it.
Teaching Listening Comprehension
Обучение аудированию
Listen to the text, find out new information and recognize the known:…
While listening to the text fill in all the gaps in its contents:…
While listening to the text insert these words and phrases where they are appropriate:…
While listening to the text tick off the words that you hear in your list:…
While listening to the text put down key words which you’ll use later for reproducing its contents:…
While listening to the text decide which statements are true or false:…
Define what sentence, in your opinion, was deleted from the text. Listen to the text now:…
While listening to the text put the following sentences into the right order:…
Compare the order of the sentences in your worksheets and on the tape and spot the differences:…
Match these pictures with the text and while listening to it put them in the right order:…
Listen to the dialogue and reproduce it in short:…
Match these sentences in Russian with the appropriate ones in the text while listening to it:…
Teaching Talking
Обучение говорению
What would you say in these situations?
What do you know about …?
Imagine that you are … What would you say or do in these situations?
Do you know what to say in these situations?
Practice the following questions.
Practice the following answers.
Listen to the tape and write down what people actually say. Pretend you are these people.
Practise introducing the following people.
What kind of questions can you ask people when you meet them for the first time? Practise these questions and these replies.
Interview your partner. Find out about his family and hobby.
Practise the dialogue. Then make up a similar dialogue using the key words.
You go to the doctor’s surgery. Try to complete the dialogue.
Listen to the tape. What is happening? Think what they might say.
Imagine you are a tourist and your partner is … . Ask … for information.
Now you are … and your partner is a tourist. Give him the information he asks for.
State the main idea of…
What is your opinion of …?
What is your attitude towards …?
Teaching Reading
Обучение чтению
Text analysis while reading
Анализ текста для чтения
1. Where is the scene laid?
2. When and where does / did the action take place?
3. Name the main characters.
4. Read the paragraph / text and find the words which denote:…
5. Read the text and find the sentences proving that…
6. Read the paragraph and find the sentences which could be answers to these questions:…
7. Read the text and find the key words which could make up a scheme of the text.
8. Read the following sentences and try to translate them without a dictionary…
9. Fill in the missing words from this list in the text.
10. Read the sentences where the actions of … are described.
11. Match the equivalent sentences given in Russian with these English ones in the text.
12. Read the title of the article / the text and try to figure out its contents:…
13. Divide the following text into parts and think up appropriate titles for each paragraph.
14. Read the text and make an outline using the following key words:…
15. Read the text and pick out 25 key words which can be used for its further retelling.
16. Read the text and pick out 5 sentences which convey the basic information in the text.
Reading Comprehension