Pygmallion

This movie takes into account the theme of social status, Eliza is presented as low class people while Mr. Higgins and Mr. Pickering is high class people. In this story they accidentally meet at a road. While Eliza is trying to sell followers to Colonel Pickering, Higgins writes down everything she said. Both Higgins and Pickering are experts in phonetic. The story develops further as Pickering challenges Higgins to transform the flower into “a duchess”, able to speak the accent of the high class community. Then, the two of them are obsessed with their experiment to teach Eliza to speak. They made two trials to examine whether they are success in their work to change Eliza’s accent. The first trial fails as Eliza accidentally talk in her low class accent; however the second trial is a big success to them. Eliza can speak fluently in the intended accent.

This plot of this movie is in chronological order so it is easier for me to understand its story line. The theme of social status is interesting to me since it is the first time for me to hear different English accent. In my opinion, the accent of the low class is hard to understand compared to the accent to high class people that talks in Standard English. Personally, I do not really like phonetic which I find quite difficult to master. However, this movie is worth to see since it represents the real life situation in some part of England where the accent that differentiate people of different status. It is so unlucky to those who are born in low class society because once they start to speak everybody knows where they come from. Similar situation also happens in Malaysia where everyone can guess where I come from my accent but I am proud of it. I am also very grateful since in Malaysia because we do not have accent that differentiate people of different social class.

Shakespeare Wallah

This play is about the life of a British family in India. The family of Buckingham comes to India to perform plays by Shakespeare. They travel all over India in order to introduce Indian people to Shakespeare’s play. They arrived at India right after India gains its dependent from British. In this play, Tony Buckingham, his wife and daughter takes part in performing Shakespeare’s play until one day, they meet Sanju. Sanju likes to watch Shakespeare’s play. Other than that, Sanju also falls in love with the daughter of Mr. Buckingham, Lizzie Buckingham. Their love can be considered as mutual love as Lizzie also loves him. However, there are obstacles in their love since Sanju also likes Manjula, a Bollywood star. After Manjula knew about Sanju’s love toward this British woman, she makes fuss during the play by the family of Buckingham. Her arrival there disrupt peoples’ attention to the play and thus forces the play to stop as people in the theatre room start to make noise and then hit each other. As a result of Manjula’s action, Sanju scolded her. In this play, the love between Lizzie and Sanju breaks whenever Lizzie went back to England. It looks like Sanju just want to have fun with her and he is not ready to make commitment with her. This play portrays love between people of different culture and different background. The difference that exists makes their love impossible to go on.
While I watch this play, I rarely understand what the story is all about. The only thing that I know is the setting is in India as I can see Indian dance and Indian people in the movie. I also enjoy the song played in the movie and I feel that I know this song. The song is familiar to me but I assume that I listen to this song while I watch Bollywood movie with my father a long time ago. I am impressed to know that I still remember the rhythm of the song.

how i evaluate others?

One of the criteria that I will look forward in every microteaching is the language spoken by the teachers. I always sit at the back of the class so I rarely hear their voices. I think that they should speak loudly so that everyone can hear them. Sometimes when I arrived at the class, I have found out the front seats is already full so I have no choice but to sit at the back. I feel that students would not pay attention to the lesson if they can not hear it and most of the teachers know that Malaysian students rarely asking questions even though they do not understand the lesson. What a waste to Malaysian resources if something like this always happen in the classroom!

I have also noticed very important tips to the teachers in order to make their students enjoy the lesson. As I have already observed microteaching that was conducted by my friends and I think that students will enjoy most, teachers that managed to present interesting activities to them. Interesting activities can make them focus on the lesson as they feel excited to participate in the activities. So, in my opinion, teachers will success in her role to teach students if all the students eagerly wait for their class and feel pleased to learn new things from the lesson.

Another important thing that teachers should bear in mind is make sure that the lesson is student centered. Teacher should encourage students to answer questions and give their opinions regarding to the lesson. Teacher should praise students that participated actively in the activities but do not forget to encourage passive students to take part in the activities. As a conclusion, teachers have the power to change the atmosphere in their classroom so they need to grab that opportunity to help their students

a streetcar named desire

This play is about a woman who does not accept her fate. Blanche, the major character is this play used to live in rich environment. She is used to have maid to help her in her everyday life. She teaches school to gain money. When she becomes poor she can not live without luxury so she chooses to be a prostitute to support her living. However, after doing mistakes in school, she is being punished. Then, she goes to live with her sister. This is the point where she is facing conflicts. These entire problems led to her madness. At the end of the play, she is being sent to mental institution. How a sad ending to those who can not adapt themselves according to the situation!

macbeth...

In my opinion, my play is interesting although there are scenes that can be categorized as harsh. One of the harsh moments is in the opening of the play when there are a group of people buried a hand. The hand is holding a sword. So, from the early part of the play I already assumed that this play not suitable for children. Actually, I also wondered why we have always learnt about harshness and death in this semester. Oedipus Rex also displays the act when Oedipus blinded himself. For me, Macbeth is a kind of guy who greed for power and at the end, the power ruins him. He believes what the devil said about his future. I also think that Macbeth is willing to do anything in order to get the throne. He managed to be landlord and finally become the king of Scotland. The moral value from this play is we must not greed because it will destroy us someday. We should be grateful for who we are.