Student Talk

Read the following sentences useful for conversation in the classroom. Do please add some more to this list from your own experience.

  1. May I come in sir/madam?
  2. I have a query/doubt/question.
  3. May I ask you a question, please?
  4. I enjoy the class. It is fun.
  5. I want to improve my English.
  6. Can I borrow a pen, please?
  7. How can I remember new vocabulary? Is there any easy way?
  8. Who helps you with your studies at home?
  9. Do you go to any tuition classes?
  10. Who is your favourite teacher?
  11. What do you want to do when you leave school (= finish studying at school)?
  12. Who is your role model?
  13. I hate homework when it’s not interesting.
  14. How do you say “mrugjal” in English? What is the English word for it?
  15. How can I say this in English “mane chah karta kofi vadhare bhave chhe”?
  16. Is there a word for “garba” in English?
  17. Do you practise at home what you learn in class?
  18. I have barely scraped through my exam. It was so difficult.
  19. It’s terrible being unsure of one’s career.
  20. It’s a very worrying situation when you don’t know what to do.
  21. When one of our classmates is under the weather, we should cheer them up.
  22. I wouldn’t give/care two hoots about what others say.
  23. I am sorry I haven’t done my homework today.
  24. How do you feel about learning English?
  25. What do you do when you feel depressed about your English/Maths/Science?
  26. Do we need to carry a dictionary every day? Especially in this rainy weather?
  27. Where has he been for so many days? Any idea? He is your friend so I thought I would ask you.
  28. I always get the jitters before exams.
  29. I’ll go to school, come hell or high water.
  30. Have you finished with my book? Could I have it back, please? I need it.
  31. You can use my bike for two days at the most.
  32. Do you want me to pick you up from your home?
  33. Let me put it in my bag now so that I don’t have to think of it tomorrow morning.
  34. I hope my book is in the same condition as before.
  35. Jay and Raju are at loggerheads. Do you think we should pour oil on troubled waters?
  36. Let’s find time to have some fun. What is life for?
  37. Can I borrow your dictionary for a minute?
  38. How do you spell this word?
  39. I still haven’t got the knack of using a dictionary.
  40. Don’t get caught in the razzle-dazzle of the fun fair. It’s a waste of time sometimes.
  41. The principal will take you to task if you misbehave again.
  42. Have you done your homework?
  43. Books are getting expensive these days. We have to pay through our nose.
  44. What’s wrong with the school sound system? I could hardly hear the principal’s address this morning.
  45. Let’s study together tonight—examinations are approaching.
  46. Examinations always give me the jitters.
  47. Have you any smart learning tips for me?
  48. My brain is giving up on me.
  49. Exercise your grey matter—don’t keep asking others all the time.
  50. You say you are good at Maths—try English for a change. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
  51. Our teacher has taken so much trouble with our revision—God bless her.
  52. Our principal must be a happy man—our school has done well in HSC examinations. It’s another feather in his cap.
  53. I never thought learning would be so much fun, the way sir is taking classes.
  54. I was away for three days. Can you help me catch up, please?
  55. I seem to be lagging in my project preparation. From where can I get more material please?
  56. You have a smug look. You seem to be ready for the test. And here I am…can’t make head nor tail of the subject.
  57. I am so busy I don’t know whether I am coming or going.
  58. I wonder why some parents are reading books on parenting now. Don’t you think they should have read those books before becoming parents? Isn’t it ironical?
  59. Are you off your rocker? Why do you want to skip tomorrow’s class? It’s an important class.
  60. I am fast running out of ideas—I need some new excuses to give for missing school. I have used the same excuse four times already.
  61. I am worried. Sooner or later they are going to put two and two together and catch me. I’ll have to face the music.
  62. My friend is a wiz kid/a gizmo addict.
  63. How can I crack this test?
  64. It’s my turn to sing the national anthem today, but I have a sore throat. Can you sing it for me, please? I’ll owe you one.
  65. The teacher seems very uptight today—not smiling at all.
  66. Your tenth standard books are in mint condition even after a year—attaboy! Or is it that you haven’t studied them at all?
  67. Don’t ever suggest that you are perfect. It gives me a shock when I discover that you are not so.
  68. Don’t think apologising is below your dignity. It actually needs a lot of guts. It takes a man to apologise.
  69. Your harping on my mistakes upsets my sense of self-esteem.
  70. Unfortunately, that teacher doesn’t know his subject. Nobody likes to attend his class. It’s such a pity. If you don’t have it, you can’t give it, as they say.
  71. He can easily lie. He could be lying with a straight face—you wouldn’t have an inkling of it. I can never lie.
  72. If only parents had ears for what children say.
  73. If only teachers pricked up their ears to what students say or want to say.
  74. I wish teachers lent a kind ear to what we say or have to say.
  75. Don’t put me off when I ask questions; otherwise, who can I turn to?

Happy Learning!

 

Hasmukh Umaria & Dharmendra Sheth

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