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Settle down

Meaning in education & teaching, with examples

phrasal verbCore term

In education & teaching, settle down means: To become calm and quiet and get ready to work, especially after coming into a room or after a noisy activity.

In Turkish: sakinleşmek, yerine geçip toparlanmak

How it is used

Teachers use it as an instruction ('Settle down, everyone') and to describe a class ('It took ten minutes for them to settle down'). It is friendly but firm. Settle in means getting used to a new school or class.

Example sentences

  1. OK, settle down, everyone. Books open, please.

  2. After lunch, the class needs a few minutes to settle down.

Common collocations

  • settle down quickly
  • help the class settle down
  • settle down to work
  • classroom routineA fixed way of doing a regular task in class, such as entering the room, collecting homework or moving into groups, that students learn and repeat until it becomes automatic.
  • classroom managementThe ways a teacher organizes the class, time, space and student behavior so that everyone can learn in a calm, focused and safe environment.
  • warm-upA short activity at the start of a lesson that gets students thinking, talking or moving and prepares them for the main topic.

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