movies!

We have seen 5 movies: Shakespeare Wallah, Macbeth, Pygmalion, Streetcar Named Desire and As You Like It. I think my favorite movie is Pygmalion; not because of the love issue in the movie, but because I could see how the lower class people wanted to learn a proper way of speaking English so that she can become a lady. I am really impress with the heroin as she can totally changed her way of speaking into a really good manner way. I do not think that I can do like her, instead I definitely can’t be like her. That is really too difficult for me.

As for Shakespeare Wallah, what I interested in this movie is plays by William Shakespeare that mentioned in the movie. At least I can know a bit about the setting stage of William Shakespeare’s plays in this movie. The setting of the stage is really a big works; many things have to be considered to do a play. For example, the custom of the actors, the background of the stage and a lot more. All these preparations make me impress!

Macbeth, a violent movie; yet I think it is suitable during that time. It is a war movie, so I think violent must be included in it. In this movie I got a message about the greed of human. The greed of power and wealth can change a person from loyal person to a betrayer. The fear of losing power will lead a person to become cruel until he will kill kids and disrespect to women. So, as a human, we should control our desire, because desire is the main reason of leading us to do improper things.

The other two movies (Streetcar Named Desire and As You Like It), are quit interesting too. If I have a chance, I would go and watch these plays in theatre. I think that will be a very interesting!

How others evaluate my teaching

How others evaluate my simulated teaching? I think they focus more on my pre-reading stage. They will check whether my extract is suitable or not with my selected topic. Some of them focus more on my set induction which is quite violence for them. Yet, for me, violence is what I wanted to convey to them as my selected topic is the characteristics of violent in Stanley. Maybe I should explain more about the set induction and relate it more to the selected topic that I have chose. As for my while-reading stage, there is no people comment about this, but after I refer back to my worksheets and activities, I found out that it is quite boring as most of the people doing the same activities. I think I should think of a better activity next time.

How I evaluate others' teaching

The first thing that I will consider when I evaluate others’ simulated teaching is the type of set induction that they used. I will see whether the set induction that they used is related to what they are going to teach or not. Besides, I am also quite care whether the set induction is interesting or not; as set induction is very important to get the students’ attention. I had an experience where the set induction is really boring as the teacher does not know what type of background knowledge that the students have. The teacher just shows a confusing picture and asked the students what the picture about. This type of set induction is really bad as it would lose the attention of the students.

Second, I will consider about the task that the teacher chose for students to attempt. In this case, I will first relate the task with the proficiency of the students, whether they are advanced, intermediate or beginner. If the target students are beginner, then the task that given to them should have guidance. Teacher also has to guide the students when they are attempting the task. If the students are advanced, the task that is given should be more difficult and more to high level of thinking skills. For example, exercise that involves analysis is suitable for them. Ask the students to analyze the use of language in the abstract is one of the suitable activities for advanced students.

Third, is the way that the teacher teaches. The voice that the teacher used should be appropriate. Be sure that students can listen what the teacher is teaching. Slow voice is definitely not suitable; as the students could not hear what the teacher is teaching and they will feel boring in the class. They will start to do other things and lose attention to what the teacher is teaching. Besides voice, the activities that the teacher used must be interesting. Make the students to move around the class by doing some role play activities. Then the students will feel excited and like to attend to the class.