CLASSROOM LANGUAGE

Hi, Teachers!,

I'm sure you, teachers, already use most of these sentences in your English class, but I just want to refresh our memory and post these common expressions. If you use others, I'll be pleased to add them to this list! They are really functional for our students, they feel more comfortable when they see these sentences on a poster in class, they look at them and speak up!

Your students and you, as a teacher, can also create your own list to encourage them to speak up, learn new words, refresh their memory, and so on. Now, are you ready? 1,2,3, GOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

I've chosen 30 sentences, I know there are more, but there could be enough for our students, then, we can add new others.

C l a s s r o o m    L a n g u a g e

For STUDENTS

1. May I come in, please?
2. I’m sorry for being late.
3. How do you say that in English?
4. What’s the meaning of …?
5. Can you repeat, please?
6. Can you speak louder?
7. I don’t / can’t understand.
8. How do you pronounce this?
9. Is this OK?
10. Did you correct our exams?
11. Can I correct, please?
12. Can we play an English game today?
13. Can I borrow a pencil / pen, please?
14. Can I open the window?
15. Good morning!

For TEACHERS

1. Good morning everyone! / Hi, there! / How are you today?
2. Stop talking, please! / Be quiet!
3. Who is missing today?
4. Open your Student’s Book / Workbook at page …
5. You have 3 min. to do this! Quickly! Hurry up!
6. Any questions? Everything is clear enough?
7. Can anyone tell me …?
8. Put your hands up if you know the answer.
9. Sit down properly.
10. Please, do these exercises while I’m away.
11. Who wants to start reading?
12. Let’s listen and answer the questions.
13. Let me think / explain this again.
14. Good luck! / Well done! / Great Job!
15. Have a nice day / weekend!

I hope you'll find them useful!!! ;)

Posters to Decorate your Classroom! (post 8)

Hi, Teachers!, 

Here we go again!!! Let's start decorating our English Corner, our classroom! It's really important that our students feel motivated and create an English atmospheare, isn't it? 

So, click on the following links LANTERNFISH (you'll find classroom English flashcards - these are very functional for your children) and schoolslinks (you'll find great material and classroom display, ready to be printed, this web is awesome!).

I love these two webs, there are many resources, worksheets, crosswords, etc. Come on, don't waste time and take a look! ;)

If you're more interested, click on: Decorating Your Classroom

WalKinG BaReFooT, a New TreND!!!

Hi, there!,

How do you feel if you have to walk barefoot everyday? But if you can choose... and if it's a new trend... would you like to walk without your shoes?

In these days, many celebrities, such as Nicole Kidman, and famous singers such as Shakira, Kelly Clarkson usually appear on stage without shoes. We can understand that many times, you can feel better barefoot rather than wearing high heels, but why do they like barefoot at the premieres, parties, etc? Just because it is more fashionable or comfortable?

I'd like to believe that these celebrities do so because they are imitating Jonas Brothers, who months ago, promoted "One Day Without Shoes" to make people aware of the difficulty of performing everyday tasks without proper footwear.



Thanks a lot, Cristine!**

ICE BREAKERS, Coming Back to School

Hi, Teachers!,

Are you ready? New year, new goals, new hopes! Don't you think so?
Well, I'm going to show you some amusing Ice Breakers for the first lesson. I hope you'll find them interesting!

For Secondary and Upper-secondary students: IDENTITY CARDS

This activity is very recommendable, specially when you, as a teacher, don'tknow your new students, or you would like to know them more. You need as many pieces of cardboard as students you have. Your students have to fill in the following gaps: NAME, SURNAMES, GROUP, AGE, EMAIL, HOBBIES, FAVOURITE FILM and SINGER, PLANS FOR THE FUTURE and SUGGESTION or REQUEST.
When they complete all the information, they start talking to their classmates and ask them some personal questions. So, they practise English from the very beginning and know their classmates.


For Primary students: "WHO IS ...?"
The teacher delivers every student a piece of paper. Here, children write their names. The teacher collects these papers and gives them away again. The teacher asks one student to stand up and say:"Hi, my name is Alex" and then, picking up the piece of paper, he / she will ask:"Who is Martha?". Now, Martha will stand up and repeat this again. It's a very easy entertaining way to know each other. If you want to complicate this activity, you can add more information.

I hope you'll like it!

Speaking, good tool to Break Ice

I wish to include a list of questions that serve to break the ice in class,

to improve your speaking, fluency, and so on.

Take a look and think aloud responses!

1. What’s your name?
2. How old are you?
3. When is your birthday?
4. What do you do?
5. Where do you work / study?
6. Where do you live?
7. How many brothers or sisters have you got?
8. Have you got any pet?
9. Can you drive?
10. Can you speak any other languages?
11. What do you usually do every afternoon?
12. What do you usually do at the weekends?
13. How many friends have you got?
14. How is your best friend like?
15. Do you practise any sport? Which one?
16. Why do you practise these sports?
17. How long have you been practising these sports?
18. What are your hobbies?
19. Do you like meeting people?
20. What is your favourite singer (or singers)?
21. What is your favourite music?
22. What is your favourite food?
23. Have you ever travelled abroad?
24. Which countries?
25. Why?
26. What did you do and see there?
27. When was the last time you went to the cinema?
28. What film did you see?
29. When was the last time did you read a book?
30. What book did you read?
31. Would you like to recommend me a book or a film? Why?
32. What would you like to do next summer?
33. What countries would you like to visit? Why?
34. Tell me an anecdote when you were abroad.
35. Tell me an anecdote when you were a child.
36. Have you ever performed a play?
37. Have you ever taken part in a competition?
38. Have you ever won a prize?
39. What do you want to be in the future?
40. How long have you been studying English?
Make up some questions.

Moreover, if you're an English teacher, you can use these questions

to encourage your students, to review vocabulary and verb tenses

already seen in class, to improve their pronunciation, and so on.

You can try it on!