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MotherF · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:32 pm Post subject:

Wasn't the main female character in the film "Truely, Madely, Deeply" an ESL teacher? I remember it featuring all the stereo-typical immigrant type students as well.

FunGus · Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 34

Deep Blue World has a funny scene with the Czech Pilots learning English.

Also, the Latin lesson from Life of Brian (not ESL, but still a good example of eliciting).

etx · Joined: 15 Apr 2004 Posts: 26

There's a woman teaching immigrants in Todd Solondz's 1998 film HAPPINESS --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness_(1998_film)

Strangely the teacher is the only sane person in a film otherise populated with extremely disturbed characters. . .

riverboat · Joined: 22 May 2009 Posts: 117 Location: Paris, France

Not a movie, but a book: "One for my baby" by Tony Parsons. After his wife dies unexpectedly, the main character jacks in his secondary school teaching job and takes a job teaching ESL in one of the oxford street schools.

uh huh · Joined: 14 Oct 2011 Posts: 110 Location: United States

And there's Leo Rosten's classic, The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, first published in 1937, which I remember reading as a child back forever ago and which has been turned into a musical.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/121757.The_Education_of_Hyman_Kaplan#other_reviews