Often-used classroom instructions
Clip 0.2 – Often-used classroom instructions
This vocabulary clip demonstrates expressions often used in the classroom. View the expressions. Study and practise them. Use them as part of your classroom routine.
Encourage your students to use and respond to this classroom language during your lessons.
Glossing expressions often-used in the classroom
The often-used classroom instructions are glossed below.
Glossing is a way of representing signs and non-manual signals in writing. It uses capital letters to represent signs, while non-manual signals are represented on a line above the capital letters.
| INSIDE PLEASE | Please come inside. |
| OUTSIDE PLEASE | Please go outside. |
| LOOK-me, PLEASE | Please look at me. |
| WHITEBOARD WATCH | Please look at the whiteboard. |
| [Gloss: FINISH; Non-manual signal: y/n q] | Have you finished? (to one person) |
| WATCH-me | Please watch. |
| GO-AHEAD | Carry on! |
| PEN PLEASE | Please take out your pen. |
| STAND-up | Stand up. |
| SIT PLEASE | Please sit. |
| [Gloss: UNDERSTAND IX-you; Non-manual signal: y/n q] | Do you understand? (to one person) |
| [Gloss: UNDERSTAND all; Non-manual signal: y/n q] | Do you all understand? (to a group) |
| COME-BACK | Come back. |
| [Gloss: QUESTION, HAVE IX-you; Non-manual signal: y/n q] | Do you have any questions? (to one person) |
| "headnod" | Yes. |
| [Gloss: "wave no"; Non-manual signal: neg] | No. |
| DON'T KNOW IX-me | I don't know. |
| TELL-me | Tell me. |
| "handwave" | applause. |
| [Gloss: RIGHT; Non-manual signal: nod] | That’s correct. |
| RIGHT+++ | That is it! Right! |
| RIGHT ("wave no") | That's not right! |
| !GOOD! | Very good! |