Feedback on Teaching Reading

Well, our presentation didn’t come out all right. These continuous sections of teaching reading, pre-reading, during-reading and after-reading, have something to be adjusted and modified. In the initial warm-up, we used power point as our teaching aid. To draw the link between students’ prior knowledge and the topic we were going to present, we then tried to display the picture of General MacArthur and a string of questions on the author. The teaching moved on to the main body which generally works in the mode of teacher-centered. I think it is alright to be teacher-led at times but somehow it is hard to get students’ attention. To get away from this possibility, we strived for figuring out what kind of “garnish” could be with the “meal.” To be honest, I like the “synonym” part and sentence making. Finally, the teaching ended with 4R activity which is similar to the information hunting. Well…I got to say sorry to all of you since the worksheet seemed a bit hard for you. I thought that all of you would certainty see the sheet as a walk in the park, so I made it much more challenging. This was my first time to prepare the worksheet on gap filling. And I’m about to keep this in my mind. Again feel sorry about that.
By the way, the two songs I played as the backgroud music were as follows, hope you enjoy it!^^
1. Sugar Ray – Answer The Phone
2. Avril Lavigne – Runaway