Useful Websites

“The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.”  ~Rupert Murdoch

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Website:   http://www.spendbrite.com/

To ensure that you will have savings at the end of the month, you need to control your spending. This can be helped by monitoring your savings targets and seeing how well you are doing. SpendBrite lets you do this in a very easy way.

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Website: Better at English 

Visit the website that provides a lot of video and audio resources for learning English!

http://www.betteratenglish.com/video-audio-english-learning-resources/

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Website: Online Thesaurus 

 

Use www.thesaurus.com to find synonyms and antonyms for each meaning of a word. The web site is very useful and also offers a number of additional free services!

http://thesaurus.com/

 

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Website: World View

Watch this YouTube Channel and listen to different leaders around the world discuss three important questions.

Examples: Melinda Gates, Prime Minister David Cameron, Prime Minister of Israel

 

http://www.youtube.com/worldview/?utm_source=GDN&utm_medium=oa&utm_campaign=oa  

 

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Website:  Video Jug

 

Want to know more ways to learn English and have fun at the same time? You can visit Video Jug and watch many videos at the web site!

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Website: www.esl-lab.com 

Thanks to Nguyen To Bao Khanh in COM1 for the recommendation, we’d like to suggest a valuable website for English learning. The site has many interesting and useful resources for you to use to learn English at home. Take a look at the site!

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Website: www.allmyapps.com 

 

Visit the website allmyapps.com to download for free different kinds of applications/software that are useful for your computer. Try it. It really is useful!

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Website: One in 8 Million

Visit the website that introduces different kinds of people who live in New York. You can listen to many voices telling you their lives in New York

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html#

 

 

Examples:

The Walker: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html#/maggie_nesciur

The Animal Rescuer: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html#/stefanie_rinza

The ex-Bank Robber: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html#/mark_mocha

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Website: Before I Die

Visit this interesting and creative work of art. The creator, Candy Chang, and her friends turned an abandoned house into a huge board for people to write their wish of what they truly want to do before they die.

http://candychang.com/before-i-die-in-nola/ 

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Website:   http://www.factmonster.com/

Visit the website that has millions of facts that might be interesting to you:

The origin of April Fool: http://www.factmonster.com/spot/aprilfools1.html

Biography of Animated Characters (ex: Batman, Sailor Moon, Superman, Spiderman, Snow White): http://www.factmonster.com/spot/cartoonbiographies.html

Most Popular Baby Names: http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0855249.html

The World’s Tallest Buildings: http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0001338.html

The Olympics: http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0114094.html

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Website:   www.ted.com

TED.com makes the best talks and performances from TED and partners available to the world, for free. Almost 900 TEDTalks are now available, with more added each week. All of the talks are subtitled in English, and many are subtitled in various languages.

TED.com’s mission: Spreading ideas.

“We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we’re building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world’s most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.”

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eHow: www.ehow.com

This is a very useful website that shows you how to do many things. It includes more than 1 million how-to articles and 170,000 videos on many topics.

For example: The following link directs you to a video that gives instruction on how to relieve your lower back pain.

http://www.ehow.com/flash/player.swf
Exercises for Low Back Pain – powered by eHow.com

 

http://www.ehow.com/video_7548264_exercises-low-back-pain.html

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Website: www.loidich.com

Thanks to Phan Thai Minh from COM4 for suggesting this website, we’d like to recommend to you a great place to listen to your favorite songs and practice listening and pronunciation. Listen to the songs of your choosing and read the lyrics at the same time. Also, if you want to receive listening activities, there’s a membership fee. Not exactly sure how much, but Mr. Minh said that it should be cheap.

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The World’s 18 Strangest Gardens

http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/improvement/lawn-garden/worlds-18-strangest-gardens

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