Classroom Language

By Natalia Guerreiro - Freguesia Branch

What you say
Can I go to
the toilet?
 Can I
drink
some
water?
 Can I
borrow
a pencil?
 A
A:
Thanks
B .

B:
No
worries
.
 Help
me
please
!
?
How do
you say
“árvore
” in
English?
Wait
pleas
e!
 ?
I have
a
questi
on.
 ?

Can I
speak
What the teacher says
Listen.
Look (at
me/at the
board).
 In pairs.

n groups.
Check (with your
partner).
Open
your
books
to
page
 Teacher’s Guide
• Target: entry levels (Jr A, Bas1, CEX1), but also other
elementary groups (Jr B, Jr C, Bas 2, CEX2).
• Procedures:
– Presentation: Use the slides to elicit/teach classroom language.
With non-entry levels, skip the section “what the teacher says”.
With entry levels, skip the slides you don’t find that relevant not
to overwhelm them.
– Practice: Elicit all they can remember and write it on the board.
Have them test one another in pairs (either by gestures or
translation).
– Games: There are many possible games for this.
• Charades: divide class in two groups and have them mime the expressions you
give them in slips of paper.
• Run & Sit: ask sts to line up in two different rows. Show a slide. The first of
each line has to run and sit on the teacher’s chair to give the correct answer.
(A variation of this game for small groups is have them compete individually.
The person to answer will be the one to first grab an object you designate
beforehand, for e.g., a teddy bear or your pencil case.)
• Run & Find: spread the sentences around the classroom (either on the floor or