USEFUL EXPRESSIONS IN ENGLISH CLASS

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GENERAL EXPRESSIONS
1. Keep silent = Be quiet. = Stop talking.
2. Quickly! = Be quick !
3. Put your desks into 4 rows!
4. May I come in?
5. May I go out?
6. Look at the board!
7. Louder, please! = Turn on your voice!
8. Slower, please!
9. Quicker, please!
10. Open your book page 100
11. Close your book
12. Divide the class into 2 groups
13. Work individually
14. Work in pairs
15. Work in groups of 4
16. Who volunteers?
17. Who else? What else?
18. Raise your hands
19. Come here
20. Come to the front of the class
21. Listen to the rules of the game
22. Can you explain it?/ Give the reasons
for your choices.

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Do the task in 2 minutes

Present your answers.
Can you guess?
Check it!
Discuss question 1
Take notes
Give feedback on your friends

performance
30. For example = For instance
31. Pay attention to the key words
32. Write down
33. Write down your answers on the
board.
34. Read out your answers
35. Describe the pictures
36. Listen to the model
37. Look at the model
38. Compare your answer with
another student/ pair
39. Exchange your answers with
another student/ pair.
40. Change the partner
41. Times up = Stop
42. Check it!
43. Can you repeat it! = Can you say
it again?
44. Take turns/ In turns

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II. VOCABULARY
What does it mean?
Can you translate it into Vietnamese/

English?
47. Tell me the Vietnamese/ English
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By Nguyen Thu Hang at Cao Ba Quat High School

IV. SPEAKING
Report on your discussion
Do you add more ideas?
Make eye contact
Topic/ Theme

equivalent of this word.

48. How do you spell it?
49. Make sentences with this word.
50. Match the Vietnamese words with the
appropriate English words
51. Identify the part of speech of the word
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III. READING
Read the text/ passage
Read the text/ passage loudly/ aloud
Read the text/ passage silently
Read the text/ passage quickly
Read the text/ passage carefully.
Read the text/ passage again
Read paragraph 1/ 2/ 3/ 4
Read the first paragraph
Read the last paragraph
Scan through the text.
Scan for specific information
Skim the questions
Read the first sentence carefully.
Read through the sentences/

statements
70. Guess the meaning of the words
71. Underline the key words
72. Locate the information
73. Mark the place
74. Summarize the passage
75. Fill in the blanks
76. Choose the most suitable one to fill in
the blank
77. Use some strategies to do the task
78. Find out the topic sentence
79. Identify the part of speech of the word
80. Understand the meaning roughly

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V.WRITING
Exchange your writing with another

student
82. Cross check
83. Give comments/ feedback
84. Peer correction
85. The first draft/ version
86. The second draft/ version
87. The last draft/ version
VI. PRONUNCIATION
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Listen and repeat

Pronounce the words
Pronounce the sounds
Pronounce the words containing

the sounds
92. Read the sentences
93. Underline the words with the sound
/i/
94. Read aloud
95. Repeat in chorus
96. Repeat individually

By Nguyen Thu Hang at Cao Ba Quat High School