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!

Isn’t it warm this morning?

It’s a humid day, isn’t it?

Today is very cold, isn’t it?

Beginning the Lesson

Please sit down, everyone.

Let’s begin today’s lesson.

It’s time to begin, please stop talking.

Let’s quickly review the last lesson.

Try to answer my questions.

Right / Correct / Nearly Right / Close / Almost

Let’s start on page 60.  Let’s 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 Bill’s 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?

Let’s do some translation work.

Questions

Any questions?

Do you have any questions?

Now I’m going to ask you some questions.

Who knows the answer?

Raise your hand.

Please raise your hand if you don’t 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.

Ending the Lesson

There will be no homework for today.

For homework, please do the exercises on page 9.

Today’s homework is . . .

Please read pages . . . to . . . for homework.

Tomorrow, we’ll study Lesson 6.

There’s the bell.

That’s all for today.

The lesson is over for today.

We’ve 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.