Before the Lesson

Greetings

Good morning, everyone.

Good afternoon, class.
How are you this morning, Mikako?
Mikako, how are you today?
Do you have a cold?

What a lovely day!

What a rainy day!
Isnt it warm this morning?
Its a humid day, isnt it?
Today is very cold, isnt it?

Role call

Hiroshi? Yes / Here

Is Yukiko absent today? No, she is coming. Yes, shes absent.
Where is Mikio? He is absent. He is in the office.

Beginning the Lesson

Please sit down, everyone.

Lets begin todays lesson.
Its time to begin, please stop talking.

Lets quickly review the last lesson.

Try to answer my questions.
Right / Correct / Nearly Right / Close / Almost

Lets start on page 60. Lets start at line 10.

Turn to page 12.
Please look at the blackboard.
Look at your textbooks.
Now open your textbooks to page 33.

Come to the blackboard.

Write this down in your notebooks.
Pass back these sheets/handouts.

Reading

Please listen carefully (to me).

Repeat!
Repeat after me.

Kenichi, you read Bills part.

Read this out loud.
Keiko, begin reading at line 5.
Okay, stop there, thank you.
Next, Masaki.

What is the English/Japanese word for . . . ?

How do you say it in English?

Please summarize the first paragraph.

What is the paragraph/section/story about?
Lets do some translation work.

Questions

Any questions?
Do you have any questions?
Now Im going to ask you some questions.
Who knows the answer?
Raise your hand.
Please raise your hand if you dont understand.

Try to answer by yourself.

Try again.
A full sentence, please.
Use a full sentence please.
Make a sentence.
Say it in a loud voice.
Louder, please!
Again, please.

Do you understand?
(I dont understand.)
(I dont know.)
(Please say it again.)
(Once more, please?)

Ending the Lesson

There will be no homework for today.

For homework, please do the exercises on page 9.
Todays homework is . . .
Please read pages . . . to . . . for homework.
Tomorrow, well study Lesson 6.

Theres the bell.

Thats all for today.
The lesson is over for today.
Weve run out of time.

Goodbye, class.
See you on Friday.
Have a good day!
Have a nice weekend!
See you next week.
Good job today.