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horse · Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 37

I would have to say that the thing that has irritated me most over the years has been other teachers - not all of them, of course :)

I can very much relate to comments posted above regarding teachers feeling automatically entitled to respect on the basis of their having somehow contrived to end up standing at the front of a room in which everyone else is seated, floundering around on an ever-diminishing cloud of (sometimes quite baseless) self-belief. I'd say that fairly applies to between 5 and 10% of those I've brushed against during my time.

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

Students who in their first lesson profess to be SO motivated and SO committed to improving their English because it's SO important for their job and career prospects and beg to be given LOTS of homework...then mentally tune out and fail to do any work the instant they realise there is no quick fix, no instant results and some effort on their part is going to be required.

Students who turn up to their first lesson with no paper and no pen (often also offenders in the first category)

Students who say they want to to use all of their lesson time on speaking and conversation...then steadfastly fail to give more than one-sentence answers to any and every question asked.

Students who pronounce it clothz-es.

steki47 · Joined: 20 Apr 2008 Posts: 1029 Location: BFE Inaka

Sashadroogie · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 11:48 am Post subject:

'Clothez' seems to be international. Don't know anywhere it isn't mispronounced so.

Sashadroogie · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 11:50 am Post subject:

Keeping a lesson time open for a student who is away on an extended business trip, only for that student to return for one lesson and announce that he can't continue...Grrrr!