Classroom Language: Greetings / Introductions

Greetings
 

• "Okay everyone, stand up please. Jimmy, that means you too. Right. Good morning everyone/ Good morning class/ Good morning boys and girls/ Good morning children... Okay, just 'good morning' is right too, but I want you to say 'Good morning class. Good morning teacher.' like we practiced last week. Can you do that? Okay, one, two, three. Much better, but remember that the 'or' in 'morning' is a long sound, oooooooooor" [gesture something very long coming out of your mouth with your right hand] "Oooooor... Good. Moooooorning.... Okay, (that was) maybe a little too long, ha ha! Morning... Great. So, let's do the whole thing one more time from the start. Good morning class... Much much better. Okay, sit down please"
  
• "(Good) morning/ afternoon/ evening"/ "Hello/ Hi"
  
• "Merry Christmas"
  
• "Happy New Year"
  

Introductions
 
 

• "My name is Mr/Mrs/Ms Kim. I'm your new English teacher/ I'm your English teacher this year/ this term/ today. "I'll just introduce myself first"
  
• "I've got five lessons with you each week."
  
• "I'm covering for your usual teacher (today/ this week). He/ she has a cold"
  
• "I'm new to this school, so please be nice to me, ha ha!"
  
• "Your last teacher told me you are the best class, so I hope that is true!"
  
• "Can you all introduce yourselves to me?"
  
• "Can you tell me and the rest of the class two or three things about the person sitting next to you?"
  
• "Let's introduce ourselves, shall we?"
  
• "This is my name at the top of the board, it's pronounced..."
  

  Sudarat 059  3EN

I would share some.

• Hello! Hi! Good morning! Good afternoon!
• Take off your jackets, please. Close the door,
please. Write the date on the board, please.

Tatiya014 3EN

1. Good morning
Good morning, everybody.
 Good afternoon, everybody.
 Hello, everyone.
 Hello there, James.
2. How are you?
 How are you today?
 How are you getting on?
 How's life?
 How are things with you?
 Are you feeling better today, Bill?
3. Introductions
 My name is Mr/Mrs/Ms Kim. I'm your
new English teacher.
 I'll be teaching you English this year.
 I've got five lessons with you each
week.
4. Time to begin
 Let's begin our lesson now.
 Is everybody ready to start?
 I hope you are all ready for your
English lesson.
 I think we can start now.
 Now we can get down to work

Dolnapa 051 3EN