Appendix

Language Functions

1.      Asking about the date

What is the date today?

What date is it today?

What’s today’s date?

What day is it?

What month is it?

What year is it

What’s the date next Saturday?

What was the date last Wednesday?

What day is the 15th?

Is the 19th a Friday or a Saturday?

What’s the day before Tuesday called?

2.      Asking about the time

What time is it?

What’s the time?

What time do you make it?

Have you got the right time?

Do you have a watch?

3.      Asking about the Weather

What’s the weather like?

Is it cold or hot?

What is the forecast for next week?

What temperature is it?

Is it below freezing?

How many degrees below is it?

Do you think it will snow?

What season is it?

Is it raining/thundering/snowing?

4.      Asking about an identity

Who are you?

What’s your name? How do you spell it?

Where do you live?

What’s your address?

Where are you from?

Where do you come from?

Whereabouts in Jakarta do you live in?

Whereabouts is that?

Which school do you go to?

Whose class are you in?

Who is your class teacher?

Who is your Math teacher?

5.      Asking about interests and hobbies

What are you interested in?

Have you got any hobbies?

What do you do in your spare time?

Do you do a lot of reading?

Do you watch a lot of TV?

Do you go swimming  a lot?

What do you do at weekends?

What do you usually do on Sundays?

6.      Asking about an opinion

What did you think of  it?

How did you like it?

How did you find it?

Did you think it was worth going?

What was your impression of it?

What was your opinion of the answer?

Which part did you feel difficult most?

References

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Dragsten, Michael. English Classroom Expression, Yale Foreign Language Academy, Seogwipo, S. at http://englishteachingmaterials.com/classroomenglishexpressions

Gardner, Bryan and Felicity Gardner. Classroom English. Oxford University Press. 2000

Hughes, Glyn S. A Handbook of Classroom English. Oxford University Press. 1989.

http://www.finchpark.com/courses/links/classroom.htm. retrieved 18 August 2009

http://www.eslteachersboard.com/pdf/CLASSROOM-ENGLISH-PHRASES.pdf. retrieved 20 August 2009

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Neill, Hugh. Help yourself to Algebra. Longman. 2003

Robert E. Johanson,  Commonly-Used English Expressions in the University Classroom. 2007.

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