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?

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

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)