Oh yes thank-you!! I 1000% agree with you! It drives me mad, especially 'gotten'. Half our textbooks have sentences like:
"He's got a skateboard". Ggrrrrr! I always make my students re-write these. In this case: "He has a skateboard".
If you are going to teach English, teach good English.

Mmmm, before people start on "that's how people use English", yes I know. I actually do have a lesson to cover these things, and I go over points as they come up. I started doing this after students asked me what words like : "Gotcha" meant, which they had heard in films. However, I don't accept this in their speech. My theory is that if they want to go for an interview, (and many do for colleges etc), then they need to know the formal way of talking. They can pick up the bad habits by themselves!

DoS
"Do as I say, not as I do"

> I really hate to see English teachers using "get" and
> "gotten" when there are many far more appropriate verbs
> that could be used. Don't take this personally, this is just an
> observation from from another English teacher and is my personal
> opinion, not necessarily that of the Editor or Manager, hehehehe :-)