Work with exercise-book

1. Get / take your exercise-books, copy-books, notebooks out (of your satchels / bags)!

Make ready / prepare your exercise-books for control papers.

Why have you taken a ruled-square exercise-book? *

Why is it that you have no exercise-book again?

Who has a spare exercise-book?

2. Put your exercise-books for classwork before you.

3. You've used up / filled up your exercise-book.*

Mart a new exercise-book! *

4. Take a sheet of squared (ruled) paper.*

Don't forget to write your name on your sheet of pa­per!

Put your name on the left

5. Write your name and your form on the cover of the exercise-book.

Write on the cover of your exercise-book like this:

1) English 2) English

Exercise-book Shevchenko V. for control papers

Form 5-B Shevchenko V.

School No 103 Form 5-B

School No 103

3) Vocabulary Shevchenko V.

Form 5-B School No 103

6. Number the pages of your exercise-book.

7. Jane, go to the teachers' room and bring / fetch your form's exercise-books. You'll find them on the table near the window.

Please give out the exercise-books as quickly as you can!

8. Whose exercise book is it?

Who(m) does this exercise-book belong to?

9. Don't forget the date! Date your work!

Put the date on the top right-hand corner of the page!

10. Make / leave / draw a margin on the left (right) of the page!

Leave margins of two-and-a half centimetres!

Rule a margin on left- (right-) hand side!

Don't fold the page over to make a margin!

The margin is not wide enough.

You must leave a wider margin!

Don't write in the margin!

Don't write words over the margin!

11. Why don't you leave a line before the date? Leave a line before writing the date!

You should have left spaces between the lines!

12. Your handwriting / penmanship is not legible.

In some places it was so illegible that I could hardly read what was written!

Don't write words so close together!

Leave more space between the words!

There is enough space for the whole word on the line.

Ann, you must (do your best to) improve your pen­manship!

13. You keep your exercise-book badly! Why is your exercise-book so dirty?

Do keep your exercise-book neat / clean! Wrap up your exercise-book in a clean sheet of pa­per!

14. Don't rub out words with an india-rubber / eraser! It's better to cross out the wrong word!

Don't rub the word off, cross it out!

Cross the letter e out!

You must cross the t's and dot the i's.

15. There are pages that have blots in your exercise-book.

Who splashed the page with ink?

Your exercise-book is full of blots!

Blots give such an unpleasant look to your work!

Have blotting paper at hand when you write!

When you come to the bottom of a page you must blot it!

For that blot in your exercise-book I'll reduce the mark.

16. There are two pages missing in this exercise-book. Don't tear pages out of your copy-book.

17. Your spelling is very bad.

How many words are there in the word "cannot"?

You didn't spell it right!

Divide the words into syllables!

You must learn to spell properly / correctly.

18. Where is your fair copy-book?*

Get out your exercise-book for fair copies. Write this sentence down into your rough notebook.

19. We may be in need of exercise-books ruled square at the next lesson.

I want you to buy a thick notebook for vocabulary.

Use ruled / lined paper for writing! *

You may use unruled paper for rough copies.