Students in Hong Kong, from my perspective, lack intensive and extensive reading, unless they have already developed their habits since childhood. At school, students are taught comprehension passages in a boring way. Teachers often explain words and summarise ideas; then students move to comprehension questions. As a result, reading lessons are not interesting to both the students and teachers. I have not come up with clues that can help me teach reading effectively and interestingly. However, I would try to include some videos and higher-order questions, like evaluating tone and attitude and making inferences, to motivate them to think beyond the passage. I always believe that they should go beyond the test and DSE, and be more interested in reading. Students at my schools are encouraged to read newspaper and English books during morning reading sessions. In class, I try to spare a few minutes to read newspaper with them. Now, we have a new initiative at school with the hope...
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