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.

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