Topical vocabulary

Classroom notions: an absentee, an article, an answer, a bell, a consonant, a date, a dental, a dialogue, a dot, an end, a fall, a five, a four, a fullstop, Grammar, a group, intonation, knowledge, a language, the English (German) language, a lesson, a letter, a line, a link-verb, the linking “r”, a laboratory (lab), a list (of students), a margin, a mark for smth., a minus, a mistake, a member, a note, a novel, a numeral, a part, a passage, a pause, a phoneme, a plus, a poem, a pupil, a question, a quiz, a record, a recording, a rise, a (reading) rule, rules of reading, a seat, a sense-group, a sentence, a sound, speech, spelling, a spelling dictation, a statement, a story, a student, a study, a syllable, a task, a test (in Grammar), test-reading, a text, a theme, a three, translation, a tone, a tune, a topic, a verse, a vowel, work.

General furniture, objects and equipment: a bag, a belt, a book, a booth, a chair, a college, chalk, a chalkboard (a blackboard), a card, a class, a copier, a desk, a drawing pin, a duster, an examination card, an exercise-book, a group register, a head-phone (an ear-phone), a hole punch, a magazine, a map, a microphone, a notice-board, a paper clip, a pencil-box, a PC (personal computer), a photocopier, a pointer, a record-player, a register, a shelf, a stapler, scissors, a sellotape, a stool, a (student’s) record book, a test-paper, a textbook, a time-table.

General writing equipment: a ball-point pen, a biro, an exercise book, glue, a notebook, a pad, paper, a ruler, a pencil, a pencil sharpener, a rubber (an eraser).

Other nouns: a café, a college, a hostel, an institute, an office, a school, a stop, a window, a window-sill.

Adjectives: active, alike, alveolar, attentive, back, bad, boastful, bright, broad, broken, busy, calm, cardinal, Chuvash, clean, clever, closed, cold, cool, complete, convenient, correct, countable, definite, dental, difficult, different, dirty, dishonest, distinct, double, early, easy, English, even, excellent, expensive, fair, faithful, fast, favourite, fine, fluent, foolish, foreign, free, French, fresh, front, funny, good-looking, grammar, grammatical, great, greedy, handsome, hard, high, ill, important, inattentive, incomplete, inconvenient, indefinite, indifferent, indistinct, industrious, interesting, just, kind, late, lazy, left, lexical, light, lively, lovely, loose, low, mental, merry, modern, modest, musical, narrow, nasal, negative, new, nice, noble, odd, old-fashioned, ordinal, own, phonetic, pleasant, pretty, right, quick, Russian, sad, safe, salty, the same, satisfactory, shallow, sick, silly, simple, slow, small, soft, steady, special, straight, strange, uncountable, unknown, useful, useless, warm, wide, well-known, wise, wrong, young.

Verbs and verbal collocations: to add (smth. to smth.), to be, to be absent from, to be away from, to be busy (with smth.), to be busy doing smth., to be divided by… , to be eager to do smth., to be fond of (doing) smth., to be in danger, to be in disorder, to be full of smth., to be in order (out of order), to be made of smth., to be on a list, to believe, to be missing, to be multiplied by… , to be on page… , to be sorry for… , to be on duty, to be over, to be present at, to be safe, to boast of, to call out, can, to chat away, to check (up), to clean, to close, to come (home), to count from… to…, to describe, to dictate, to divide (into), to do, to enjoy smth., to explain smth. to smb., to fetch smth., to fiddle with smth., to get ready for smth. (to do smth.), to give smb. smth., to go (home), to go to one’s seat (place), to go for a walk, to guess, to have, to have smth. on, to help smb. (with, in smth.), to imitate, to intone, to keep on doing smth., to know, to learn smth. (by heart), to let, to listen to, to (dis)like, to live, to look at smth., smb. (to have a look at), to make a (great) noise, to make up a dialogue (examples, stories, statements, situations), to make smb. do smth., to meet, to open… at page… , to multiply, to pass smth. to smb., to put, to put one’s hand up, to put smth. on, to read, to recite (a poem, a rhyme), to remember, to repeat, to report, to retell, to review, to send, to sit, to sit down, to sit still, to sit straight, to show smb. smth., to speak to (with) smb., to spell (misspell), to stand (up), to stop doing smth., to study, to subtract smth. from smth., to switch smth. on (off), to take (away), to take smth. off, to tell smb. about smth., to thank smb. for smth., to transcribe, to translate from… into… , to underline, to understand, to wait (till), to wet, to write down (to put down), to work, to write (to read, to speak) English, Chuvash, to be good at languages, to have a good command of the language (to be quite at home with the language), to speak a language well (fluently, fairly well, abominably), to speak poor English (German), to speak broken English, to speak with a strong accent, to be bilingual, to study at (a) college, to study at an institute, to study at the university, to take care of smb., to train (teachers, etc.), to teach smb. smth., to treat (cure) smb., to type, to wish smb. smth., to work (hard) at smth.

Classroom expressions: to greet the class; Good morning! Good afternoon! Good-bye! to have classes; after classes; Do you have classes on Saturday? to stay away from classes; to miss the lessons, to cut (to skip) lectures; to play truancy (truant); to take (mark/call out) the register; a favourable excuse, an unfavourable (poor, lame) excuse; to come in time. Sit down. Go to your place. Stand up! Take your seat. Who is on duty today? What date is it today? What’s the date today? May I come in? May I go out? What’s the pronunciation (spelling) of the word? Is this right (correct, wrong)? Go on reading (writing, retelling). Don’t go so fast! I haven’t prepared the task. I’m not prepared. I left the book at home. I forgot about the exercise. Open your books at page 89. Do exercise 15 on page 58. Shall I read (begin, answer your question)? What’s the English (Russian) for…?

Will you repeat it? Can you (could you) repeat it? Will you pronounce (translate, spell) it? Will you say it again (once more)? Please, pronounce (translate, spell) it. That will do. Stop talking. Silence, please. Keep silent. No helping (whispering), please. The time is up. To write a test; to do homework orally (in written form, in writing); to give (to set, to check) homework (hometask); to collect (to hand in) exercise-books (homework); to give in (to give out, to hand out) papers. Come (up) to the blackboard! Come to the front! Work on yourself (on your own)! Wipe the word (sentence) off. Wipe off (out) the board, please. Clean the board, please. Dust the board, please. Rub off the board, please. Let the others see the board. Don’t stay in front of the board. Speak up! Ask questions on (about) the text. Put questions to the sentence. May I ask you a question? May I say it in this way? May I put it like this? To make a report; to make a mistake; to correct mistakes. How long is it before the bell? The lesson is over.

A break, in break; at the Dean’s office; to wet the duster; to switch on (switch off) the tape-recorder (cassette-recorder); to thread the tape; to wind on; to wind back = to rewind the tape = to play (back) the tape; to plug in, to unplug.