14 September 2015
FASHION
This is the seventh week for studying in English Reading Strategies. I studied the new lesson that is "Fashion" We wrote the vocabularies that associated with "Fashion" on the whiteboard. We shared the vocabularies and wrote them together.
Here was the vocabularies that written by us
Before we started to study, our teacher had opened the pictures about the vocabularies that associated with the fashion such as fishing stockings, high heels, platform shoes, halter top, kimono, sneakers, miniskirt, etc.
I would like to show you about the pictures of these items.
Fishing Stockings
High Heels
Platform Shoes
Halter Top
Kimono
Sneakers
Miniskirt
Source : www.google.com
Then, we had to read the passage about "The Fusion? Confusion?" First, I skimmed to read and captured the main idea each of paragraphs. I found the difficulty that I could not capture the main idea in some of paragraphs I saw the context clue and tried to capture the main idea. Finally, I could understand about this text.
The teacher gave us to include the main idea each of paragraphs on the whiteboard. When we mistook she also helped us to guide the contents each of paragraphs so we could understand exactly.
This passage is about The Japanese people,Yumiko, studied in America and she had two bad experience. The first time was a Saturday night. The people stared at her because of her clothes and the second time a man approached her and wanted to take her away because of the way she dressed. Yumiko realize that her clothes caused two problems. She found that the American people rarely dress up when they went out. Moreover, There is a different images how to dress up in TV and real life.
These are the Japanese dressing styles.
These are the American dressing styles
Source : www.google.com
This lesson taught us that if we live in another country, we will get dressed in order to get along with the people of that country. It likes the idiom that When in Roam, do as the Romans.
The teacher gave us to answer the two questions with our opinions.
1. Yumiko had the wrong idea about American students because of American TV programs. Do you think the TV programs about your country are true to life? Give some examples.
No, they don't because the different things in TV programs and real life are quite different. The things in TV programs are very beautiful but the things in real life aren't beautiful. For instance the clothes. We can see those clothes in TV programs and they are so beautiful but the clothes may be faulty in real life. In short. They are advertised in TV programs.
2. Think of some things that Western students may be surprised about when they come to study in your country. For example, the clothes students wear, the hairstyles, the food, etc.
I have Vietnamese friends.Some of them have ever been Thailand. They surprised with the Thai student uniform because their country does not have student uniform. They just got dressed with informal clothes in order to study. and they told me that Thai food is very spicy. They couldn't have it. Most Vietnamese food is quite tasteless. This is the difference between the things in Thailand and Vietnam.
These are the Thai student uniforms.
These are the Vietnamese student uniforms.
This is Thai food.
This is Vietnamese food.
I got the knowledge about this lesson and I would like to improve my English Skill in order to be good at English in the near future.
