The fifty English phrases a teacher needs to run a lesson in English, with pronunciation notes and a four-week plan for introducing them without losing the class.
A pupil hears far more English from the teacher running the lesson than from the lesson content itself, but only if the lesson is actually run in English. For a teacher whose own English is still developing, that is a genuinely difficult step, and it usually fails when it is attempted all at once.
This resource lists the fifty phrases that do almost all the work of managing a class: giving instructions, organising groups, praising, correcting, managing time and closing a lesson. Each comes with a simple pronunciation guide, a note on when to use it, and the gesture that makes it comprehensible the first few times.
The four-week plan introduces roughly twelve phrases a week, in the order a lesson actually needs them. It is written for a teacher who is learning the phrases at the same time as the class, and it says so honestly: there is a section on what to do when you forget one mid-lesson.
Instructions first, then organisation, then praise and correction. Trying to learn all fifty in a week is how most attempts end.
Gestures cost nothing and they carry the pupils who are a term behind the rest of the class.
It is a prompt for you, but pupils read it too, and they start using the phrases back at you. That is the point at which the classroom language belongs to the room.
A full term of Grade 4 English, sequenced week by week, with every lesson planned and every resource included. Written for teachers who are covering English alongside other subjects.
Eight lessons that move a class from choral recitation to genuine comprehension, using texts short enough to fit on a blackboard.