Mr Brown soon finds himself running around the school in an attempt to quash the false rumour, only to leave wrong impressions and ending up in the school gymnasium to box against the philandering teacher. Mr Brown finds himself in a lot of trouble when Danielle tells Mr Jarvis, a pestering Irish woodwork teacher at the school, that she is engaged to Mr Brown. Everything seems to be going all right until the captain of a Russian ship comes to the classroom to take his roaming sailor home - and says that Boris has a wife in Russia but the captain wants to defect as he falls in love with Miss Courtney. Boris explains that he wants to stay in England to be with his English girlfriend. Juan brings his Russian sailor friend Boris, who has come to England to escape Russia, to Mr Brown's class. They all visit Mr Brown at his flat, each with their own 'remedy' to make him feel better. Anna then sends the rest of the students home for the same reason. The students' English is not up to her expectations, so she sends some of them away and tells Anna to take over the class. Mr Brown becomes ill and cannot come to class, so Miss Courtney takes charge. Su-Lee also does not want to marry him anymore, so they decide to cancel the wedding. Later, Ali's first wife informs him that she is pregnant.
Ali informs Mr Brown that Su-Lee knows about his first wife and the fact that he was marrying her to have a child. Mr Brown gets a much bigger shock when he finds out that Ali is already married and plans to take Su-Lee as his second wife. When the students make a lot of mistakes in class and see that their teacher has no faith in them, they decide to cheat in order to ace the exam and fake their progress.Īli and Su-Lee surprise the class when they announce that they are to marry. In order to see how prepared they are for their upcoming exam, the students prepare to take a mock exam. However, she finds out that the new teacher is taking over the school, so she dismisses her and brings Mr Brown back.
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However, it is not all happy returns when Miss Courtney informs Mr Brown that his trial month is over and she is not satisfied with his teaching. It is Mr Brown's birthday and everyone in the class has brought him a present. Mr Brown and his students then work together to return the stolen items without being noticed. However, Mr Brown and Ali later discover that Jamila has shoplifted many other items in the past. Jamila is arrested for shoplifting a magazine due to her misunderstanding the term "free" in promotional material. He writes a letter explaining to Surinder's father why he cannot marry her, but her father is not at all pleased when he reads it.Ĭoncerned that his students' English is not improving, Mr Brown keeps them after class - so late that they get locked in the building.
He eventually escapes the marriage, but Mr Brown in turn is pressured to marry Surinder instead. The 10-year-old Surinder was beautiful as a tender bamboo shoot, but she has become so fat that Ranjeet would rather commit suicide than marry her. Ranjeet asks Mr Brown to help him escape an arranged marriage with Surinder, his father's best friend's daughter, which was arranged 20 years ago. The inspector plays along and sits in his class pretending to be a student and in the end is very impressed with Mr Brown's teaching methods. The school principal, Miss Courtney, nearly dismisses Mr Brown immediately as she had requested a female teacher, but she gives in and he is allowed to stay on a trial basis.Īn education inspector arrives at the school to observe the classes, but Mr Brown mistakes him for a new African foreign student.
The Asians consist of Su-Lee, a revolutionary-minded secretary from the Chinese Embassy, who is a staunch follower of Chairman Mao's teachings Taro, a Japanese businessman, as well as three students from South Asia: Ranjeet, a devout Punjabi Sikh Ali, an unemployed Pakistani Muslim and Jamila, an Urdu-speaking housewife who cannot speak any English. The Europeans consist of two au pairs, the young, flirtatious and beautiful Danielle (from France) and prim and proper Anna (from West Germany) two young single men, Giovanni (from Italy) and Max (from Greece) and a laid-back middle-aged bartender, Juan (from Spain), who speaks no English.
A diverse group of ten foreign adult students in London, hailing from nine different countries in Europe and Asia. Jeremy Brown starts his new job as the teacher of English as a foreign language class, and meets his students for the first time.