Bryce Hedstrom – Rejoinders

Here is Bryce’s list of rejoinders that are on the wall of his classroom. I will get this into poster form as soon as I can on the regular website and also make a category for them here on the blog site. Bryce told me he would try to get a blog post or two on how he uses them to me over the weekend and when I get that information I will post it here.
By the way, if you ever want to clean up the formatting on anything you find here on either the regular site or the blog site, I suggest pasting the text into Notepad, which clears all the formatting, and then paste it into a Word file and clean it up however you want. If you ever do that with any of the unwieldy texts you find here, please send me a cleaned up Word file, if you don’t mind.
To add to what I said about how the yellow rejoinder cards used to work for me, I wanted to say that the reason I don’t put a list like this on my own classroom walls is that I am very choosy about what goes on my walls. I think that typically most of us put so much up on the walls that it only confuses. But that’s just my own opinion on use of wall space. I prefer the yellow cards. 

 

RESPUESTAS     (REJOINDERS) 
(Reactions and short phrases to keep a conversation going) 


APPROVAL
¡Qué bien!                             That’s great!
¡Qué divertido!                   How fun!
¡Qué interesante!                How interesting!
¡Suave!                                  Cool!
Claro / ¡Claro que sí!        Of course
Por supuesto                        Of course/You bet
¡Por fin!                                Finally!    At last!
De acuerdo                           Agreed
Yo también                          Me too
¿Verdad?                             Right?   True?
¡Fantástico!                          Fantastic!
¡Fenomenal!                        Phenomenal!
¡Es obvio!                             It’s obvious!
 
DISAPPROVAL
¡Esto apesta!                        That stinks!
¡Qué aburrido!                    How boring!
¡Qué asco!                            How gross!
¡Qué vergüenza!                 How shameful!
¡Está loco!                            It’s/He’s/She’s crazy!
No tiene razón.                    It doesn’t make sense.
Creo que no.                        I think not.
¡No es justo!                         It’s not fair!
¡Ni en pintura!                     In your dreams!
¡Eres un monstruo!            You’re a monster!
 
APATHY 
No importa.                         It’s not important.
¿A quién le importa?        Who cares?
Olvídalo.                              Forget it.
Lo que sea                            Whatever
 
SYMPATHY
¡Qué triste!                           How sad!
¡Qué lío!                                What a drag!
¡Pobrecito!                           Poor little thing!
¡Qué barbaridad!               How awful!
¡Qué lástima!                       Too bad!
¡Es tan triste!                       It’s so sad!
Lo siento                               Im sorry
¡Ay, caramba!                     Oh, my gosh!
 
DISBELIEF
¿En serio?                            Are you serious?
¿De veras?                           Really?
¡No puede ser!                     It can’t be!
No lo creo.                            I don’t believe it.
¡No me digas!                      You don’t say (to me)!
¡No es posible!                     It’s not possible!
¡Qué ridículo!                      How ridiculous!
¡Qué tontería!                      How silly!
¡Basta ya!                             Enough already!
¡Increíble!                            Incredible!            
 
KIDDING
Es un chiste.                         It’s a joke
En broma                             just kidding
 
AMAZEMENT
¡Qué casualidad!                What a coincidence!
¡Qué extraño!                      How strange!
¡Qué milagro!                     What a miracle!
¿Otra vez?                           Again?
¡Dios mío!                             OMG!
 
ENCOURAGEMENT
Casi                                        Almost
Buena adivinanza              Good guess
Tal vez                                  Maybe
Quizás                                   Perhaps, maybe
Ojalá                                     I hope so
¡A lo mejor!                         Probably
Te felicito                             I’m so happy for you
Felicidades                           Congratulations
Depende                                It depends
Creo que sí                           I believe so
¡Así es la vida!                     That’s life!
¡Ándale pues!                       Go right ahead!  Go for it!
 
MISCELLANEOUS
¡Salud!                                   Gesundheit!
¡Muchísimas gracias!        Thank you very much
¡Mil gracias!                        A thousand thanks
A veces                                  Sometimes
¡Cuidado! / ¡Ojo!                Be careful!
¡Ayúdame!                           Help me!
Puede ser.                             Could be.
¡Buena suerte!                     Good luck!
¿Qué quiere decir __?      What does ____ mean?
¿Qué es esto?                       What is that?
¡No le digas nada!              Don’t tell him anything!
Esto me molesta                 That bothers me.