Bored versus Boring

In my years of teaching the English language, I met a lot of instances when I heard some foreign students say, "I'm boring," when what they actually meant was, "I'm bored." Thus, I thought of writing a post about it in order to clearly differentiate one from the other.

Both 'bored' and 'boring' are adjectives. However, 'bored' refers to someone who feels rather unhappy or annoyed because he or she can't find or think of anything interesting to do. When you feel like this, you should say, "I'm bored". Don't say "I'm boring," for it means you yourself are not interesting. 'Boring' refers to something not interesting. For instance, you don't think playing chess is fascinating for you to do, then, it is 'boring'.