Classroom English: Vocabulary & Expressions for Students

Hey Adam! Thank you for this lesson. You say it’s for beginners and I want to help.
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Hi, welcome again to engvid.com . I’m Adam. Today’s lesson comes as a request, because I know that there actually quite a few of you who are teachers of English and you wanted to know some classroom English. So today we gonna look at classroom English. This is more for beginners, especially people who have just joined in English class, in ESL class, EFL class etc. And you started to get used to a classroom environment and you not exactly sure what the teacher saying, what you should say etc. We gonna start with the teachers. What do the teachers say that you need to understand? OK? Excuse me! First the teacher will take attendance or the teacher will take “roll call”, sorry these are two separate words “roll call”. Basically they want to know who is here and who is not here. OK? So if a student is in the class he or she is present. So,of…, the teacher says Bill present, Merry present, Builler,Builler…Builler, Builler is absent. He or she is not in the class. So absent – not here, present – here. If the teacher has finished with attendance and starts to teach the class. And a student is late. And they get a little cheek to many late’s you’re going to trouble. Now, you could be absent, but you could have an excused absent – means you have a note from you parents, from your doctor, from your boss or the teacher just knows you’re not coming today, it’s OK. It’s excused. Now the teacher will give you comments. He or she will tell you to do things. OK? So it’s very important that you understand what to do. If a teacher says “put up your hand, raise your hand, don’t speak out, because if everybody speaks out – it’s just noise. Put up your hand, ask your question, get your answer. OK? Then, the teacher will ask you take out your pens, take out your earphones. Basically get them ready, we are going to use them. OK. Take your seats. Basically means – sit down, sit. OK? He is trying to get organised or she is trying to get organised. Next. They’ll say take out your book, turn to the page 37. Means, open your book,page 37, let’s start reading, working etc. Now, if the teacher wants you to do things, but not along, for example, if you doing math, yea you do along no problem. If you doing ESL the teacher will wanted to work in pairs. Means, two people together, you so you can speak. Work in groups means getting to a few people together, three, four, five. If he wants a specific number, he will say getting to groups of, or work in groups of three. So you find your two friends. Three sit together. Do the exercise. Now, if the teacher…, as everybody is talking, teacher wants everybody to be quiet and listen to one student, he will say or she will say, please pay attention to Jack. Jack is going to speak. Everybody please pay attention to Jack. Or if you doing exercise and the teacher wants you to be careful about one word or one grammar structure. Pay attention to the independent clause. Means, be very focused, be aware. OK? So these are basic things you need to know. What that your teacher will say. Now, you are the student, you have questions, you don’t understand something. What are you going to ask? Let’s see. OK. So now, you are the student and you know sometimes you don’t understand everything that teacher says. So there things you can say or ask from the teacher, of course, to help you. If you didn’t hear something, what will you say? You can say – I didn’t catch the last part, now, if you say – I didn’t hear. And I’m a teacher, I have been speaking for ten minutes and you say I didn’t hear. He’ll say “everything? ten minutes ? I can’t say again”. So I didn’t hear or I didn’t catch the last part. So, I will go back and say again the last part. Or I didn’t hear the part about what to ask. Or I didn’t hear the part about independent clauses or whatever the lesson is about. So, be specific, tell the teacher which part you didn’t hear. He or she will say it again. Or you can say: could you repeat that please? Repeat – say again. If you didn’t hear, could you repeat that please? Could you say that again. But again say which part. Be specific. Or I didn’t hear/catch what you said after here. So, tell the teacher you heard everything until here and from here, you didn’t hear, you didn’t catch. Catch means hear or understand. OK? And if you having a lot of trouble ask the teacher – can you please speak more slowly. And the teacher will slow down and it will be much easier for you to understand. OK. Now, if you’re learning something, and again we are learning English and you’re not familiar with what the teacher says, it’s something new or you didn’t, you don’t really know what it is. First of all make sure you know how to spell the word if it’s a new word, ask the teacher – how do you spell that and the teacher will say – S P E L L – spell. OK? How do you spell that. Now, if you don’t know the meaning of the word and the teacher just continuing speakings – put up your hand, say “I’m sorry, what does this word mean?” And the teacher will explain to you. Now, if you’re learning in another country, you learning EFL(English as a foreign language),you can say – how do you say this word in your language? If you’re learning in Japan – how do you say spell in Japanese? How do you say spell in Spanish? How do you say spell in any language? And what is this word in Japanese? What is spell in Japanese? So these two basically means the same thing. By the way, this marks means same as what was above – ………………… What is the word in your language if you’re learning outside. If you’re learning in Canada, for example, and you are …….. Oh, how do you say this word in Spanish, I don’t know, I don’t actually speak Spanish, I wish I spoke Spanish, I will learn one day, but for now I don’t. So, you have to be careful. OK. And finally, if you need a bit more information you want the teacher to explain a little bit more, may be you understand or you heard, but you’re not really sure. So you can always ask for more specifics – “Can you use this word in a sentence?” So, for example, you heard the word, you understand the word, but you’re not sure how it would fit in a sentence, how to use it. Ask: ” can you use(for teacher) can you please use this word in a sentence. So I can see how it works. Or can you give me or can you give us(the class) an example of this? OK? So,for example: the teacher touch you about some new technology. You understand but you want to see in real life – what this means. So you want examples of things that use this technology. So you ask. Now, this is everything you need to know, teachers, students, entering the classroom but most important thing you need to remember – if you don’t understand something – ask. There is no such things as bad question or stupid question or you’re not sure about. If you’re not sure – ask. The teacher will be happy to tell you the answer. He or she will be happy to repeat a few times until you understand. I’m sure that other your classmates, other people in the class, they also have questions. But they too shy to ask. You ask, you get the answer, you move on. OK? Go to Engvid.com, if you have any questions for me. Write them in the comment box. I will answer them, do the quiz, make sure you understand everything and come back again to Engvid.com. Bye!