1. CLASSROOM LANGUAGE

2. What is classroom language?  A kind of language necessary to communicate and survive without having to use the students’ mother tongue

3. What are the exponents?  The beginning of the lesson  Classroom management  The closing of the lesson  Error correction  Spontaneous situations

4. The beginning of the class  Greeting  Introductions  Register  Time to begin  Waiting to start  Put your things away  Late

5. Greeting  Good morning, everybody  Good afternoon, everyone  Hello, everyone  Hello there, James  How are you today? I hope you’re all feeling well  How are you getting on?  how’s life?  How are things with you?  Are you feeling better today, Bill?

6. Introduction  Let me introduce myself. My name is Mr/Mrs/Ms. Kim. I’m your new English teacher.  I’ll be teaching you English this year.  I’ve got two lessons with you each week

7. Register  Who is absent today?  Who is missing?  Who isn’t here today?  What’s the matter with Diana today?  What’s wrong with Jim today?  Who was absent last time?  Who wasn’t here last Friday?  Why were you absent last Friday, Bill?

8. Time to begin  Let’s begin our lesson now  Is everybody ready to start? Today we’re going to discuss/learn about…  I hope you are all ready for English lesson  I think we can start now  It’s time to start now  Now we can get down to work

9. Waiting to start  I’m waiting for you to be quiet  We won’t start until everyone is quiet  Stop talking and be quiet  Settle down now so we can start

10. Put your things away  Close your books  Put your books away  Pack your things away

11. Late  Where have you been?  We started ten minutes ago. What have you been doing?  Did you miss your bus?  Well, sit down and get started  Please hurry up and sit down. We’ve already started.  That’s all right. Sit down and we can start  Try not to be late next time  Try to be here on time next time  Don’t let it happen again.

12. Thank you