Some useful website from CALL-4

"Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.”a quote from William Faulkner.


3.
Read for different purposes

1. Read to update the daily news

--The New York Times



2. Read for Fun

Online Comics--Pictures can often help you understand what you're reading. One good way to improve your everyday English is to read comic books. They'll help you pick up new vocabualry in an interesting way.Comics are often written with simpler vocabulary although they also contain difficult one sometimes.

--Snoopy--Peanut Comic Strips



Online Stories & Novels

--byGosh.Com--You could fine copyright free online literature here, including novels, nonfiction, stories, poems, and kid's classics. E.g. Aesop's Fables.



3. Read to Improve Writing

--Learning English Blog--BBC Learning English has two blogs. One blog is updated by a student and the other blog by an English language teacher. If you found keeping a blog difficult to you and often do not have the structures or words to express your thought, the teacher blog is a good place to visit when you have free time. You could learn some words and expressions from it; you could also imitate some of the stylistic features of the writing. Besides, as the teachers are from differnt countries, each month, you'll get a new chance to know a new teacher, a new country, and a new culture. These are all important part of langauge learning.