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Russian sentence

Recommended to use

Mistaken variant

Здравствуйте, ребята!

Good morning, boys and girls Or: Good afternoon. everybody! Or: Hello. Form 6! (very informal)

How do you do?

is only used when one is introduced to a stranger.

Садитесь.

Sit down, everybody. Or:   Take your places.

Be seated. Or: Take a seat.

"Sit down" is the universal and most usual form. It can be used when the pupil is standing at his desk or after he has finished writing on the blackboard, etc. "Take your places" is more often used if the pupils have moved away from their desks for a perfectly acceptable reason.

"Be seated" is old-fashioned or very formal. "Take a seat" means "sit down wherever you wish". It could be said to a guest at a dinner party but not in the classroom.

Приготовьтесь к уроку

Or: Get ready for the lesson. Prepare for the lesson.

“Prepare” is rather formal, and suggests preparation that is done beforehand rather than at that moment. “Get ready” or “Settle down” are more natural.

Get ready to the lesson. 

Не шумите!

Don't be so noisy! Or: Don't make so much noise!

Or: Quiet, please!

Or: Stop talking, please.

Or: Be quiet now, please.

Don't be noisy.

Пересядь на свое место.

(Go and) sit in your own place, please.

Move to your proper place.

Поменяйся местами с

Will you change places with Max?

Change your places with Max.

Or: Exchange your places with

Наведи порядок на своей парте.

Will you tidy your desk, please?

Put your desk in order.

Вставайте, когда я буду называть ваc.

Please stand up as I call(out) your names.

Rise as I call out your names.

Давайте повторим этот звук.

Let's work again on this sound again.

Let's revise this sound.

“Revise” means to re-learn previous work, usually in preparation for a test or exam. “Your homework is to revise these verbs for a test next week.”

Мы должны поработать

над этим звуком.

We must practise this sound.

You must train this sound.

Сегодняшний урок мы

посвятим

We'll spend today's lesson doing smth or preparing for a test

We'll devote the lesson to a preparation for a test. "To devote" is too elevated a style in a classroom situation.

Начнем с повторения

пройденного материала.

Let's go over the material we

discussed at/in the last lesson. Let's revise the material we've done so far/this

Let's revise the past

material.

Иди отвечать.

Will you come (out) to the front?

Come to the classboard.

"Come to the blackboard, please" is used when the teacher wants the pupil to write something on the blackboard. They  don’t use the word classboard.

Не подсказывайте!

Don't tell him the answer! Or: No whispering the answer! Or: Don't help him!

Don't prompt!

You could say “Don’t prompt him/her”. “Prompt” has a technical meaning in the theatre – you prompt an actor who’s forgotten his words, but it can be used in this context, too. “Don’t help him” is simpler and more usual.

Нет, это неправильно.

No, that isn't quite right. 

Or: You've got it wrong

Or: Not quite! Try again!

You are mistaken. is used when you are wrong about smth that you thought you knew or saw. It can’t have been my car. You must be mistaken.

Ты это сказал наугад.

You've said it without thinking.

You've said it at random.

Я ставлю тебе «отлично».

I'll give you (a) five.

I'll put you a five.

Перейдем к …

Let's move on/go on to

Let's pass on/pass over to

Достаньте книги.

Will you get out/take out your books? Or: Get/take your books out, please.

Put out your books.

"To put out a book" would mean «выставить книгу» the way English people put out milk bottles and cats before going to bed.

Читайте на странице 19.

Read page 19.

Read on page 19.

Читайте текст до стр.20

Read the text up to page 20.

Read the text till page 20.

Посмотрите в свои книги.

Look at your books.

Look into your books.

Переверните страницу.

Turn over (the page).

Turn the page.

“Turn the page” or “Turn over” are equally acceptable.

Turn page.

Open your books at page thirty eight.

Open your books on page thirty eight.

Слушайте внимательно.

Listen carefully.

Or: Pay attention to what I’m going to say next.

Listen attentively. In descriptions "attentively" is used rather than carefully". E. g.: He listened attentively to everything the teacher was saying. But in the imperative "carefully" is used, I would always say “listen carefully” to young children – “attentively” is too formal a word which they might not understand. I might use “attentively” with older children (12 year olds and above) when I particularly want them to pay attention to something.

Ты видишь, где у тебя ошибка?

Do you/Can you see your mistake?

Do you realize your mistake?

"Do you realize your mistake?" can be used with regard to mistaken judgement, bad behaviour, not with regard to grammatical mistakes, wrong pronunciation, wrong word order, wrong tense, etc.

Поднимите руки.

Put your hands up.

Put up your hands

Raise your hands.

(OK, but rather American.)

Пиши  аккуратно.

Can you try and write tidily/neatly, please?

Or: Please try to write more neatly.

Write accurately.

Вы уже сделали это

упражнение?

Have you done/finished the exercise yet?

Have you already done the exercise?

Давайте проанализируем ваши ошибки.

Let's go over your mistakes. Or: Let's look at your mistakes.

Or: Let’s see where you went wrong.

Let's analyze your mistakes.

Поменяйтесь ролями.

или тетрадками

Swap over

Exchange your roles.

Работайте по парам

Practise in pairs 

Work in pairs

Назовите историю

Think up a title for the story.

Or: Think of a title…

Name the story. "To name a story" is to say which is being referred to. The teacher can say, "Name a story in which a wolf eats a grandmother" and the answer will be "Little Red Riding Hood". Thus "to name a story" is to say what the name of the story already is and it cannot therefore be used to mean "think up a title for the story".

Читай выразительно.

Read it with a bit of feeling.

Or: Can you put some expression into it as you read?

Read it with expression.

Громче.

Я не слышу.

Louder, please. I can't hear you.

I don't hear. I can’t hear. (“I can’t hear” might mean that you are deaf!)

Приведи свои доводы.

What makes you think so?

Prove it

Разбейтесь на пары.

Split into pairs. Divide into pairs.

Break into pairs.

Выпишите незнакомые слова.

Write out the new words.

Write out the unknown /unfamiliar words. "Unknown" would tend to imply that the word is not known to anyone, including perhaps the teacher. "Unfamiliar" has an additional meaning, namely "strange, unusual".

Найдите новые слова в словаре в конце книги.

Look up the new words in the vocabulary at the back of the book.

Look up the new words in the vocabulary at the end of the book.

"At the end of the book" would mean that the pupils have to look for the new words in the last chapter, if not on the last page of their book.

Постарайтесь сделать это задание самостоятельно.

Try and do it yourself/on your own.

Try to do it alone. Or: Try to work independently.

Соберите свои вещи.

Get your things together.

Pack your things.

Разойдитесь по классу и мы выполним упражнение

Mingle in and find out …

Walk around the classroom…

Talk to other people and find out…

Mingling activity

Быстро просмотрите текст, чтобы составить общее представление о …

Skim through the following text in order to get the general idea of

Передайте основное содержание своими словами

Tell the story in your own words.

Просмотровое чтение

Просмотрите текст, чтобы ответить на вопросы

Scan the passage to answer the questions

Поисковое

Переведите это на русский.

Could you put that into Russian? How do you say that in Russian?

Минуточку!

Hold on a second.

Wait a minute

До свидания!

See you tomorrow/next week/on Monday!

If you use the expression "Goodbye!" make sure you modify it so it doesn't sound too final. E. g.: Goodbye till I see you again! Goodbye till our next lesson! Goodbye – see you tomorrow! Goodbye – have a good weekend! Goodbye – don’t forget your homework!