C. Web-based Learning

C. Web-based Learning

(1) Listening:(i) Adult Learning Activities-California Distance Learning Project
(Dogs Help Children Become Better Readers)
(ii) 12/31
(iii) Vocabulary:
1. sniff: to smell something by taking air in through your nose
2. seizure: a very sudden attack of an illness involving unconsciousness or violent movement
3. Assistance Dogs: Dogs that help their owners are called "Assistance Dogs.
4. Therapy Dogs: These dogs are family pets with special training.
5. get around to: to do something after you have intended to do it for some time
6. paired up: to form a pair or make two people form a pair
7. intimidating: to frighten or threaten someone, usually in order to persuade them to do something that you want them to do

(2) Writing:
(i) Paragraphpunch: An interactive, entertaining process writing site
(Paragraph Punch Writing Prompts)
(ii) 1/1
(iii) 1: Reasons: use some question to talk to everyone why do you want to talk and what reason
2: Details: and based on our topic to give more informations
3: Example: use some example to let every can much more understand
4: Cause and Effects: we can write to everyone what did it cause or effects
5: Sequence: at last we can write what happen after that

(3) Concordancer:
(i) VLC: Web Concordancer Collocation Explorer
(ii) 1/1
(iii) This website is useful we can search some words or sentence by just typing an alphabet


(4) Pronounciation:
(i) Emily's Pronunciation Class
(ii) 1/2
(iv) This semester we have Phonetic class, and at the final exam we have to test the question the this website, it is useful it let me learn this part more earily.

(5) All Skills and Others:
(i) English Baby: Learn English! Meet Friends!
(ii) 12/5
(iii) It is a website that we can make friends from many countries, it is interesting, but there are less Europe or American people. But we also can know other cultures by chat on the Internet.

(6) ESP:
(i) ESL Cafe Web Guide: Business English
(ii) 12/23
(iv) This is a place if we have any problems, we can leave some messages on that and after some days there are many people will leave messages or send e-mail to you to talk to you how to handle that. I have left a message which is about how should I improve my English, and there are some people send me e-mail to talk to me I can hire a native tutor that is the best way to let me improve my English.

(7) Speaking:
(i) Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL Classroom (Also useful for teacher)
(ii) 1/3
(iii) There are many questions about the conversation, I think they are very important for everyone because we usually don’t know what questions should we talk to others especially stranger. So the beginning of the conversation is very important.

(8) Vocabulary:
(i) Learning English - Vocabulary Exercises
(ii) 1/4
(iii) This website is very interesting because we can do exercise by playing some games. That will be very fun to learn by playing.


(9) Presentation Skill:
(i) 10 commandments of presentations
(ii) 1/5
(iii) 1. Tell a story.
2. Present only what the client needs to make a decision
3. Be flexible.
4. Never overestimate eyesight.
5. Don't tell what it is; show what it means.
6. Deliver; don't read.
7. Look and listen.
8. Act like a professional.
9. Be a person.
10. Plan ahead.

(10) Reading/Literature:
(i) On-Line Lessons - Reading Skills
(ii) 12/28
(iv) There are some exercise we can test our reading skills, I think this is a good exercise for us to exercise before the exam.

(11)Dictionary:
(i) Dictionary.com
(ii)12/28
(iii)This website is really useful, there is English to English definitions. It is much faster than look into the Dictionary. And if we use the electronic dictionary the definitions are just Chinese ,so if we use this website we not only can become faster but also improve our English by looking such English to English Dictionary.

(12) Encyclopedia:
(i) Wikipedia
(ii)1/5
(iii)It is one of my favorite websites because we can find things about 95 percent things are connected with them.