Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Vocabulary Assignment 1

Name of the website:British Council LearnEnglish Central

Website address:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-word-games-archive.htm

Content:many games about different kinds of vocabulary

Strengthens:
1.Words are categorized into many groups.
2.It is fun learning vocabulary through playing games.

Weakness:
1.It is a British web so that some vocabularies are not the same as what used in America.
2.The information can not be easily downloaded so we have to surf on the web if we want to get the knowledge.

Five-star grading:Three stars


Name of the website:Vocabulary in EAP: Selecting vocabulary to learn

address:
http://www.uefap.com/vocab/vocfram.htm

Content:many different kinds of vocabulary

Strengthens:
1.Words are categorized into many groups.
2.It contains not only general vocabulary but also specific subjects and less frequent vocabulary.
3.It provides the related words.
4.The information can be gotten easily and conveniently.

Weakness:
1.Lack of meanings and definitions of words except general words.
2.The level of the vocabulary is a little bit easy.

Five-star grading:Four stars



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