Functional Language AI Prompt for EMI Teachers

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Create a glossary of functional language for my EMI teaching context.

My subject is: [subject]
My students are: [level / year / English level]
The teaching situation is: [lecture / seminar / lab / practical / tutorial / group work]

Create functional sentence stems for the following teaching functions:
introducing a topic
defining a concept
explaining a process
describing a diagram
summarising a point
moving to a new section
returning to a point
checking understanding
giving instructions
inviting questions
responding to student answers
giving feedback

​For each function, give five clear and natural sentence stems suitable for university teaching. Keep the language clear, professional and accessible for students learning through English. Avoid idioms and overly informal expressions. Include one example sentence for each function using content from my subject.