Please talk about the difficulties of designing classroom teaching activities and ways to overcome these difficulties based on your own teaching practice.

Answer: There are various difficulties: 1) the teacher may not know students’ preferences of activities; 2) the teacher cannot successfully predict students’ reactions to the activities; 3) the teacher doesn’t know what kind of teaching activity best suits students. To avoid the difficulties, the teachers should have a good knowledge of teachings goals and students’ language level and learning styles before designing the activities. While designing the activities, the teacher can prepare extra activities in case students should fail to cooperate.