A Discourse Approach in Reading

4 October 2015

(Make up class 21 September 2015)

Fashion (continue...)

Today, we studied about the fashion (continue...) the topic is "SPLITTING HAIRS" First of all, the teacher gave us to see the hair styles pictures. Then, we solved the anagrams about hair styles. There were 6 hair styles in hand out. I like Shaggy hair because it is very smart. I do not like Dreadlocks because it seems dirty.

I would like to show you about the pictures of hair styles in this hand out.

Spiky Hair

Having one or more projecting sharp points of hair

Dreadlocks

Dreadlocks are intentionally matted and sculpted ropes of hair.

Shaved Head.

Head shaving is the practice of shaving the hair from a person's head.

Crew Cut

A crew cut is a type of haircut in which the hair on the top of the head is cut relatively short.

Shaggy Hair

Shag haircut look amazing on both thick and thin hair, naturally curly the best examples of shag haircuts for medium length hair in pictures.

Dyed Hair

Hair dyeing, which is an ancient art, involves treatment of the hair with various chemical compounds.

Next, we read the passage about "SPLITTING HAIRS" as quickly as possible and tried to capture the main idea each of paragraph then, we wrote the main-point just 1-2 sentence(s) in order to practice our English Reading Skill. The teacher concluded the text shortly. We knew the new hairstyles of this passage such as Dyed hair, Crew cut etc. Then, we did the exercise in order to review our comprehension. I got full scores of general for detail and reading for detail part. I missed one point of identifying facts and opinion.

Then, the teacher gave us to discuss about the hair styles that we found in order to ask some questions together. We discussed happily and saw each of pictures of our friends.

Eventually, the teacher gave us to answer the question "Your university has decided that all female students should have long hair and all male students should have crew cuts. Write to the student magazine with your opinion about this."

For my opinion, I think that new hair style rules are a good idea because it is formal. I think that male students should have crew cut because it looks polite and Female students should have long hair too, because it looks smart and polite. I also think that the people should have the freedom to have hair styles which they want However, they should recognize the rules of their school so they are the student and should focus on their study more than hair styles.

"Nice hair does not mean you are good person so do not judge the people by their appearance"

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.