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dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

As requested Freddie.

I can usually deal with the most arrogant show offs. The ones I dislike are the ones who just refuse to speak. This is particularly painful if you are doing 1-1.

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

The ones I hate most are the ones who try to catch you out.

tekirdag · Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 505

I only dislike:
a. students who smell bad
b. students who scratch their privates a lot in the lessons
c. students who INSIST I teach in Turkish Evil or Very Mad

Off ya!

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

Oh God I miss teaching girls. What a perk to have gorgeous girls in your class especially when they look up to you and think you are a really good teacher. Little do they know that you trot out the same crappy lesson week in week out.

Freddie Miles · Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 91

On my list would be the argumentive professionals. Doctors can be sometimes be the worst. In one of my Toefl classes, a right b-tch of a middle-aged female student suddenly started "tsk, tsk-ing" and told me I was very very wrong. (Quite possibly, especially in spelling.)

However. when I asked her why she thought so, it was apparent she had scrambled her rules somewhere along the line. I gracefully told her to bring in her reference and I would be glad to look it over, but, for the moment, she would have to take my word for it. That was not enough for her and she proceeded to try to correct every point I made. Later, I learned she had done the same sort of thing in every class she had been in.

The pampered rich girl is another I 'cherish'. "Offf ya, I am boring!" This is the type that can fawn over the male teachers one minute and bully the other students the next.

Sometimes, though rarely, I find that it is possible to like the student outside of the class and desperately want to seize him by the throat while teaching.

Freddie Miles · Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 91

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

In language schools here, how many of the students are really here to meet potential boyfriends/girlfriends?

yeovil50 · Joined: 17 Aug 2006 Posts: 13

yeovil50 · Joined: 17 Aug 2006 Posts: 13

The students that really get my gander up are the middle aged "know it all" men who think they are being funny!

One conversational class I ran had about 10 students all in a horse shoe formation and directly in front of me was a bald headed suited git. Oh he thought he was so so funny.

One day he decided in his limited brain resources that he would only answer every question with "butcher"!

Where is your home? ......."Butcher"
Where is your wife now?...."Butcher"
Where is your office?........."Butcher"

On the next round of questions i waited until the word was forming in his mouth and asked.

What did Atat�rk do to people?

The answer was forthcoming with a smart arse grin on his face

"BUTCHER"

It took a full two seconds while it registered with the other students what he had said. You could have heard a flea fart!. Of course I panned out the silence for maximum "disgust" affect!

After that he was treated with such disdain by the other students he left two weeks later!