Monday, November 26, 2007

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This photo was taken by markdavis.
Following these are wonderful flowers.

Monday, November 5, 2007

How to improve your English?

Friend! Do you know the Internet well? Do you ever surf on the Internet? If you have got a computer, you can enter a wide world. You can also improve your English skills.
To create yourself blog is a good way to practise your English writing, reading, listening and speaking. A blog is a short word for weblog. It is a personal online journal . Where you can write about your hobbies, thoughts etc, and everyone can do it. In your blog, you can create anything which is useful for you.
If you think your English listening is poor. You can link a podcast to your blog. The podcast is a digital media file which is published on the Internet and people can download it or subscribe to it. This means it goes to your computer automatically and then you can hear it on the PC or put it into your ipod. For example, you link to Patricia's podcast, you can hear Patricia's talking and answer her question, such as "What does Patricia say is a good idea for ESL student?'' You listen and find the answer ESL students could borrow stuff before buying it."
If you want to make friends or talk to different people, there are two ways. First one, you can go into the wiki which is a website created by groups of people. You can discuss different topics. The second one you can go into a
forum which is a public facility to meet for open discussion. They can improve your English writing. For example, we have participated in a joint wiki with the students of Kogarah and Liverpool.
Sometimes you had a wonderful trip and took a lot of fantastic photos. You want to share it to your friends. No problem! You can create a Voicethread. It is program where you do a sideshow of your photos with the recording your comments. For example, you don't know how about Sydney is , you can link to Voicethread. You can get some about Sydney's information , if you are interested in this. You can write your comments. This is useful for your speaking and writing.
Of course, there are a lot of way to improve your English skills, such as
Time4english, where you can practise grammar, listening, reading and writing etc. I think the computer can give you a great help.