CLASSROOM LANGUAGE What is classroom language?  A kind of language necessary to communicate and survive without having to use the students’ mother tongue What are the exponents?      The beginning of the lesson Classroom management The closing of the lesson Error correction Spontaneous situations The beginning of the class        Greeting Introductions Register Time to begin Waiting to start Put your things away Late 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? 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 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? 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 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 Put your things away    Close your books Put your books away Pack your things away 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. Thank you