Today we studied the new lesson. It was a 'Fashion'. First the teacher assigned us to write vocabularies about fashion onto the board. I learned new vocabularies such as halter top, platform shoes, fishnet stocking and etc.
Here was the vocabularies that written by us
Halter top
Platform shoes
Fishnet stockings
Then, we had to read the passage about "The Fusion? Confusion?". First, I am using scanning to read and captured the main idea each of paragraph. I found the difficulty that I could not capture the main idea some of paragraphs I saw the context clue and tried to capture the main idea. Finally, I could understand about this text.
It was about the woman name's Yumiko, a student from Tokyo studying in U.S, have found herself in difficulty because of her clothes. She had two bad experiences when she arrived there. The first time was a Saturday night when she went out with some students at her university. A lot of people stares at her because her clothes were different. The second time a man approached her and wanted to take her away because the way she dress. Yumiko realized that her clothes caused the two problems. When American people go out, they rarely dress up. They usually wear comfortable clothes such as jeans, T-shirt, and sneakers. It's interesting to learn that the image you get of a country from the TV is often very different in reality.
The teacher gave us to include the main idea each of paragraph on the whiteboard. When we mistook she also helped us to guide the contents each of paragraph so we could understand exactly.
I had problem about how to use skimming and scanning. I can't find main idea in the passage. I usually think the detail of passage is a main idea. I should try to read and find main idea as much as I can do.
