Useful Websites

Dear students,

Here are several useful websites that will help you improve your vocabulary ability and writing skills. Above all, you need to enhance your writing ability by comprehensively accessing every English resource, such as newspaper websites (China Post, for example), wikipedia, scientific websites, fine arts websites, cultural websites, and so on. Reading as much as you can will definitely benefit your English. You are highly recommended to do exactly what I teach in class, so that writing won't be a plight for you again. Namely, what I teach in class should be put into effect, which will make it easier to write a complete essay by yourselves. The key factor to success in writing is just "write," no matter what topics you want to write, no matter when you will write, and no matter where you conduct writing.

Keep on practicing real writing, and make the most use of these websites. Good luck to you all!

BR,
Your teacher,
Christine

Dictionary.com provides a number of dictionaries, including thesaurus.
http://dictionary.reference.com/

Your Dictionary also provides dictionaries very useful for you.
http://www.yourdictionary.com/

China Post is a very good website, which enables you to learn daily life vocabulary and the latest words that can be applied in your essay. You should pay attention to the public opinion because there are many critical insights, helping urging your own thinking by reading them.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/guidepost/

TOEFL-Prep Writing Practice Site contains 4 lessons and leads you step by step to build your concepts in English writing.
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/fwalters/toeflwrite.html

Wikipedia is a "must read" website, in which you will be able to enrich your reading, your background knowledge, and writing materials (when you want to write some facts or examples, you need resources like this to provide your readers enough and convincing content), all of which contribute to excellent writing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

TEFL is a various website. You can improve your general English ability here.
http://www.englishclub.com/teach-english.htm

If you are interested in US president's speech, you can browse this website at least once a week. The radio speech is a very useful resource for you to practice listening. Moreover, it also has speech transcript, allowing you to learn vocabulary and phrases, and to appreciate the speech itself.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/

Justice Talking is the most important resource for you due to its variety. There are many issues held by the hostess, which involve every aspect you will meet in your TOEFL or EILTS test. Besides, the relating links offer you extra resources once you click any one of them. You should take advantage of it!!
http://www.justicetalking.org/