CLIL: Classroom English

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1-6

Classroom English

Thursday the 24th of October 2024

Room B105

Louise Arnold and Monique Bos

Today's plan

• introduction 
• free online course:
  https://www.clilandmore.com/challenges
• quick CLIL activity
  
• classroom English
• Sharing good practice examples

Classroom Activity

• List all the letters of the alphabet underneath each other.

Classroom Activity

• List all the letters of the alphabet underneath each other.
• think of as many different words as possible that relate to the classroom. The one with the widest variety of words (so as many different letters as possible) wins.

Classroom Activity

• List all the letters of the alphabet underneath each other.
• think of as many different words as possible that relate to the classroom. The one with the widest variety of words (so as many different letters as possible) wins.
• You'll get 2 minutes.

Classroom Activity

• Raise your hand when you have used more than 10 different letters.

Classroom Activity

• Raise your hand when you have used than 10 different letters.
• Say them out loud and write them on the board.
  
  
  

Classroom Activity

• Raise your hand when you have used than 10 different letters.
• Say them out loud and write them on the board.
• Any other words? Come up and write them on the board.
  
  
  

Now for some classroom English

THE BEGINNING OF THE LESSON

Greetings: 

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?

THE BEGINNING OF THE LESSON

Introductions

My name is Mr/Mrs/Ms Smith. I’ll be teaching you English this year.

I’m your new English teacher.

I’ve got five lessons with you each week.

THE BEGINNING OF THE LESSON

Time to begin

Let’s begin today’s lesson.                                    Let’s begin our lesson now.

I think we can start now.                                         Is everybody ready to start?            I’m waiting for you to be quiet.                            Now we can get down to work.

It’s time to begin, please stop talking.             Stop talking and be quiet.

Settle down now so we can start.

We won’t start until everyone is quiet.

I hope you are all ready for your English lesson. 

THE BEGINNING OF THE LESSON

Put your things away

Pack your things away.

Close your books.

Put your books away.

THE BEGINNING OF THE LESSON

Register

Who isn’t here today?

Who is absent today?

Why were you absent last Friday, Tom?

What’s the matter with Anna today?

What’s wrong with Anna today?

THE BEGINNING OF THE LESSON

Late

We started ten minutes ago. What have you been doing?

Did you oversleep?

Don’t let it happen again.

Where have you been?

Did you miss your bus?

DURING THE LESSON

Instructions can be used at the beginning of a session

Are you ready?                                                Everybody …

Pay attention, everybody.                          Open your books at page…

You need pencils/rulers.                             We’ll learn how to …

You have five minutes to do this.            Turn to page …

Look at activity five.                                       Listen to this tape.

Repeat after me.                                              Again, please.

Who’s next?                                                        Like this, not like that.

DURING THE LESSON

Comprehension language

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?

DURING THE LESSON

Other common instructions

Come in.                                                                  Go out.

Stand by your desks.                                         Stand up.

Sit down.                                                                 Come to the front of the class.

Put your hands up.                                             Put your hands down.

Hold your books/pens up.                              Show me your pencil.

DURING THE LESSON

Giving instructions

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.                                 Who would like to read?

Would you mind switching the lights on?                   Can you all see the board?

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?

DURING THE LESSON

Sequencing

First/ First of all, today, …                                                                      After that/ Then

Right. Now we will go on to the next exercise.                          Have you finished?

For the last thing today, let’s …                                                          Whose turn is it to read?

Which question are you on?                                                               Next/ Next one, please.

Who hasn’t answered yet?                                                                  You have ten minutes to do this.              Let me explain what I want you to do next.                                  Your time is up. 

The idea of this exercise is for you to …                                         Finish this by twenty to eleven.

Have you found the place?                                                                  Are you all ready?

DURING THE LESSON

Supervision

Stop talking.

Look this way.

Listen to what … is saying.

Leave that alone now.

Be careful.

DURING THE LESSON

Questions

Any questions?                                                                                    Do you have any questions?

Now I’m going to ask you some questions.                           Who knows the answer?

Please raise your hand if you don’t understand.                 Raise your hand.

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.

DURING THE LESSON

Responding to questions

Yes, that’s right,

Fine.

Almost. Try again.

What about this word?

DURING THE LESSON

Reference

As I said earlier, …

While we’re on the subject, …

In the background you can see …

The church was started in the last century.

This is a picture of a typically English castle.

Let me sum up.

DURING THE LESSON

Encouragement

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.

Have a go! Have another try!                                      I’m really impressed. I knew you could do it!

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.                                                   Your marks are getting better all the time.

Don’t pretend you can’t speak English, I know you can.

DURING THE LESSON

Giving feedback to students

Magnificent!                          Right!                            Fine.                                  Very good.

That’s very good.                Great stuff!                  Well done.                      That’s it.

Yes!                                            Yes, you’ve got it.     Fantastic!                        Very fine.

That’s nice.                             I like that.                    Marvellous!                      You did a great job.

Terrific!                                     Wow!                             That’s correct.                Quite right

That’s right.                           That’s quite right.    That’s more like it.        You’ve improved a lot.

It might be, I suppose.     That’s a lot better.    There’s no hurry.            You’re on the right lines (UK).

Have a guess.                      That’s almost it.          You’ve almost got it.    You’re halfway there.

You were almost right.     Unfortunately not.    Not quite right.               Try again.                                      

There’s no need to rush.  Not really                      Not exactly                        Have another try

THE END OF THE LESSON

Time to stop

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.                                                      Have you finished?                              

One minute to finish that activity.                                                     It’s nearly time to go.

You’ll be late for your next class (if you don’t stop now)         Are your desks tidy?            

Don’t forget to bring your … tomorrow.                                           Pack up your books.                 

The next class is waiting (outside/ to come in)                           Collect your work please.  

We’ll have to finish this tomorrow/ in the next lesson             Any questions?

That’s all (we have time) for today.                                                     That’s all for today. You can go now.

THE END OF THE LESSON

Not time to stop

The bell hasn’t gone yet.                                          The lesson doesn’t finish till ten past.

Hang on a moment.                                                    We seem to have finished early.

Just a moment, please.                                            Just a sec/ Just a second/ Wait for it!

There are still three minutes to go.                     Just hold on a moment.

One more thing before you go.                              We still have a couple of minutes left.

Your watch must be fast.                                          We have an extra five minutes.

Sit quietly until the bell goes.                                  Back to your places.

Stay where you are for a moment.

Tom, you have to stay five extra minutes (as I told you earlier/ because you…)

THE END OF THE LESSON

Homework:

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. (but there will be tomorrow)

THE END OF THE LESSON

Next time:

The next class starts at 9 o’clock.

We’ll do the rest of this chapter next time.

We’ve run out of time, so we’ll continue next lesson.

We’ll continue this chapter next Monday.

We’ll do some more practice of this in the next class.

We’ll finish this exercise next lesson.

We’re going to continue with this tomorrow, so please sit together again.

THE END OF THE LESSON

Goodbye:

Goodbye, everyone.

See you again next Thursday/ next week/ tomorrow/ on Monday

Have a good holiday.

Enjoy your vacation.

See you tomorrow afternoon.

See you in room A108 after the break.

THE END OF THE LESSON

Leaving the room:

Form a queue (UK) and wait for the bell.

Get into a queue (UK).

Be quiet as you leave. Other classes are still working.

Try not to make any noise as you leave.

It’s tidy up time

Everybody outside!

All of you get outside now!

Hurry up and get out!

Sharing good practice examples

Suggestions for other meetings:

Some useful videos: