How do you get on with your instructor? I'm worried about the fact that a minor correction rattled you and the rest of your lesson was "all wrong". Maybe you need someone else, who can express what needs fixing without making you feel stressed. They are all just people. Can you try a different one?
ETA: Now that I've read the rest of the thread, I say again, I know your instructor knows his stuff. They all do. To become licensed, they take a MUCH more rigorous test than we do. But that doesn't mean he's a good fit for you. I couldn't hear my first instructor (and he couldn't hear me). I didn't bother with a second lesson with him. I just went on to someone else.
It was a little more than a minor correction. It was a lengthy speech about being aware. Which, to be honest, was probably justified on Monday. I wasn't at my best. I It's the hearing thing that's really in the way. I always remind him when I'm getting in the car. But as the lesson progresses he gets quieter. I have to come out and say "I cannot hear you" and he'll get louder again. That was making me very nervous, and I was a mess last Monday anyway. He'd given me several instructions that I missed earlier (turn here, etc.) because I honestly could not hear them or I'd mis-heard and then let me know that I'd not done them.
Yesterday I was doing the correct thing and he said something that I heard incorrectly that led me to do something incorrectly, which he marked me down on. At the end of the lesson when we were discussing my performance, I told him I'd done them move because that is what I thought I heard him ask me to do. Seriously, I wish I had a hearing aid at this point. Although I don't know what that would do to help me with the accent and the unfamiliar use of some words.
But basically I have been extremely nervous driving here because of not having been behind the wheel for a couple of years, in addition to the "wrong side" and the city traffic. On the road, everything is completely unfamiliar. Ideally I would have taken me to somewhere with less traffic and practiced getting the hang of
the car itself, and then built up to city traffic on a Friday at evening rush hour, not done that as a first lesson.
With the hearing issue, the initial "sink or swim" approach just made things worse as far as my nerves. Which made me more apprehensive at every lesson. I was pretty much almost sick before the Monday lesson.
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It just kind of built up until yesterday morning my mind did a "well, F___ it, you know how to drive. Just get this done and you don't have to do it anymore". BCCF. So I'm past that now. I did well enough with the TomTom yesterday - I was completely calm and pretty much enjoyed that part of the drive. The hour zipped by, rather than dragging. So I know it's going to work out. I'm familiar with what I'm supposed to be doing as far as road signs and that sort of thing. I just need practice.
At this point I don't want to have to start with a new instructor unless things go south again. I am just resigned to saying "Sorry, I cannot hear you" several times during each lesson. I'm booked in for my practical exam in five weeks. I may still not do the approved steering method by then, but from everything I've read it isn't counted as a fault as long as you have control of the car. ("C"s get degrees is my motto at this point.)
If I have another lesson that turns out like last Monday's, I'll start looking for someone else again. I did try two places, and only one responded - that they were booked solid, sorry, with no indication of wanting to explore future dates. The other never did phone back. While I was out yesterday I passed a learner car with a woman instructor in it. That would have worked better, I think. I can hear women's voices better. But... I'm almost there now.
I do have to say again that there is nothing wrong with this instructor - he is obviously a very good instructor. It's my hearing issue and the unfamiliarity with the Scots use of words (sometimes) that are in the way. It annoys the heck out of me, too.