As part of a study of the language used to conduct daily business in typical West German classroom situations, 30 native English speakers observed selected classroom interactions and used questionnaires to classify them and paraphrase them in English. The observers were from a variety of English-speaking countries, and some had explicitly educational backgrounds. The questionnaires given to the observers contained sentences eliciting terms in a wide variety of categories. Results obtained in some of the categories (reading, notebooks, teacher record books, teachers, absence notes, truancy, and marks) illustrate that this is a feasible method for obtaining such terminology. (MSE)