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.

Mind your language season 1 episode 1