Sentence examples for pupils called from inspiring English sources
Do you remember one of your pupils called JACK BATES?" "Vaguely.
"Pay attention!" she says, a little wearily, as chattering drowns out those pupils called to the front of class to read out their work.
It traces the erratic progress of pupils called Furious, Cavalier, Deranged, Stoic and Wholesome; they are steered by the teacher-narrator, Ms Snuffleupagus, whose colleagues hold dramatically different views on how to teach.
As played by Heather Matarazzo, in Solondz's "Welcome to the Dollhouse" (1995), she was a seventh grader who felt unloved at home and unpopular at school, where other pupils called her — you'll never guess — Wiener Dog.
At their very first meeting, and seeing her potential, "Prof", as his pupils called him, also advised her on appearance and deportment, recommending a visit to Bond Street: "Look at the ladies, how they are walking, how they are dressing, how they do their hair; get some ideas, for I think you are a little bit provincial".
The pupils call the headmaster "sir" and so do visitors from the Education Scrutiny Committee.
Nishant Sinha, a schoolteacher from the state of Manipur, says everyone, from passersby to his own pupils, calls him "Chinky".
North-easterners look different: a Manipuri teacher in Pune says everyone from passers-by to his pupils calls him, offensively, "Chinky".
Then, barely 24 hours later, his familiar 6am alarm call will signal a return to reality as the man his pupils call 'Mr Gibraltar' prepares to resume his everyday life as a teacher.
The structure she and 83 other Standard Eight pupils call class is nothing more than an old, weather-beaten structure that has seen better days.
