1. It’s Monday morning and my students (drive) me nuts1. I (stand) in the room in the International Language School in

1. It’s Monday morning and my students are driving me nuts1. I am standing in the room in the International Language School in London. The motto of this school is “English in Two Years Without Any Tears”. My students are mostly from East Asia — Japan, China, Hong Kong. Now I am watching them closely. Zeng is sleeping at the back of the class. Imran is staring at the text message on his mobile phone. Astrid and Vanessa are chattering. Witold is crying and Yumi is trying to comfort him. Only Gen is looking at me. He is waiting for something to happen. Suddenly Zeng starts snoring. I clear my throat. “Right, who’s got that homework for me?” I ask them. But I can see that they are not ready with it.