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# Teacher

## Verb + school

* become a teacher
* the teacher teaches you
* the teacher corrects (your homework)
* the teacher returns (your homework)
* **the teacher tells you off**
* teachers punish students

## Adjective + teacher

* a good / an excellent teacher
* a terrible / an awful teacher
* an enthusiastic teacher
* a former teacher
* a new (newly-qualified) teacher
* a strict teacher
* history / geography / maths / biology / physics teacher

## Exercise

### Verb + teacher

1. Our English teacher always ***corrects*** our grammar and spelling in class.
2. Our maths teacher ***returned*** our exam papers, and *went over* the answers.
3. My teacher ***told*** me off for being late again.
4. I want to ***become*** a drama teacher when I leave school.
5. The geography teacher ***taught*** us how to read a map.
6. When I was at school, the teachers used to ***punish*** us for even small things. Nowadays teachers have different attitudes.

### Adiective + teacher

1. Our new teacher has no control over the class. - d
2. Mo went back to her old school to visit some of her former teachers. - e
3. Mrs Lloyd really knows her subject. She's an excellent teacher. - g
4. David would make a good teacher. He has a lot of patience. - a
5. The new teacher is enthusiastic. She's full of ideas. - f
6. I had some awful teachers at school. One couldn't even spell correctly! - b
7. I think teachers have to be strict so that the students know what the rules are. - c

## Notes

1. **A *****supply teacher***** teaches the class when the normal teacher is off sick.**
2. **Note these expressions:**

* *Jeremys working in a restaurant, but hes a teacher by profession.*
* *Pam applied to university on the advice of her teacher.*

1. **To become a teacher, you go to teacher training college where you train as a teacher. Then you qualify as a teacher.**
2. **You can be a primary teacher or a secondary teacher.**