Don’t write, answer, work (2), do (2), speak, use, take out, don’t work, write, open, don’t read, ask

“(1) … your vocabulary books. Now, (2) … your course book on page 76. (3) … Exercise 1. (4) … individually – (5) … in pairs for this exercise. (6) … the dictionary and (7) … new words in your vocabulary books. (8) … the words in pencil – use a pen.’

‘Now (9) … Exercise 2. (10) … in pairs. (11) … in English! (12) … and (13) … questions about your family. (14) … the sentences form your notebook.’

RUNNING THE LESSON

Ex.1 Read the following teacher’s instructions and put them into the right column

1. Any problems?

2. First, have a look at the text.

3. Have you finished?

4. Is everything clear?

5. Last, try to do exercise 3.

6. Let’s move on.

7. Let’s speak English.

8. Next, read through the new words.

9. Now we’ll do another exercise.

10. OK, everybody. Two more minutes.

11. OK. You can start.

12. Right everyone.

13. Right. Stop now.

14. You have five minutes.

15. Where are you up to?

16. What’s the matter?

17. We’ll have a break.

Starting something new	Making things clear	Sequencing activities	Checking progress	Stopping

LANGUAGE TO THINK ABOUT

1. Think of a typical lesson. Can you describe the structure of the lesson. Write down the different phases, the activities and the amount of time to be spent on each?

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2. How many ways can you think of telling the students to stop working?

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3. What phrases can you think of from one stage of the lesson to the next?

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4. What would you say to check whether students have finished the work you have given them?

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5. How many different phrases can you think of that mean the same as ‘first, next, and last’?

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STARTING SOMETHING NEW

Let’s speak English.

Let’s change/ switch over to English.

Now we can use English again.

Let me tell you this in Russian.

Now I’ll change/ switch back to Russian.

The next part of the lesson will be in English.

Now, it’s English-only time.

Right everyone.

Good/ Fine/ Right/ Now/ Now then.

OK/ All right, everybody.

Quiet now, please.

Stop working now, please, and pay attention.

Let’s move on.

(Now) we’ll/ let’s go on.

On we go.

Let’s move/ go on to something else/ different.

Now, we’re going to do something else.

Let’s turn to something a little more/ less serious.

Now we’ll do another exercise.

Now we shall do some group work.

Now let’s have a look at exercise 13/

Now I want you to turn to page 17/

Now we can relax.

Now I have some music for you.

MAKING THINGS CLEAR

You have five minutes.

You can spend ten minutes on this.

I’ll give you five minutes on this/ to do this.

You’ll have to stop in two minutes/ minutes’ time.

Don’t spend more than a few minutes on / doing this exercise.