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Students and a teacher are doing language related exercises. There are 3 of them. The first two have been done and the teacher wants to inform that there is another one because the students seem not to notice it. Would it be correct for the teacher to say:

There is the next exercise. it should mean "The next exercise exists". I don't mean that the teacher is pointing at it.

I know that "there is the" is a difficult piece of grammar.

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    "[Don't forget that] there is another exercise" would be more idiomatic.
    – Kate Bunting
    Aug 29 at 8:13
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    Using next seems to me to imply that the students do know that there is another one. However, if the intention is to hurry them along so that all three exercises can be done in the time available, the teacher might say something like "Shall we go on to the next exercise now?"
    – Kate Bunting
    Aug 29 at 8:32
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    I'm trying to explain that there is the next exercise is a valid utterance but not particularly idiomatic.
    – Kate Bunting
    Aug 29 at 8:54
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    Again, much less natural than there is another exercise.
    – Kate Bunting
    Aug 29 at 9:06
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    What @KateBunting said. But realistically, even There is another exercise is relatively unlikely in the exact context. If the students don't [necessarily] know there's another exercise, I think the teacher would be much more likely to say There's [still] one more exercise, because There is another exercise tends to suggest We could do / could have done a different exercise (perhaps we still will do it, or perhaps that was a "now-past" option that we didn't take).
    – FumbleFingers
    Aug 29 at 12:39

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