1. General Description of the Website
- This website looks very easy to use since the categories are divided so that teachers and students can find the materials they need easily in a short time. This has 6 categories and each has sub-contents in it.
1) Test & Quizzes 4) English Reference
- English Quizzes - English Idioms
- Languate Tests - English Phrasal Verbs
- Reading Comprehension - English Irregular Verbs
- Language Polls - Grammar Glossary
2) For Teachers 5) Articles
- Teacher Handouts & Printables - Language Articles
- Lesson Plans & Worksheets - ESL Weblog
- Teacher Training Handouts - The Editor's Blog
3) Forums 6) Tools & Resources
- As a teacher.. - Text Analysis
- Learning English - Grammar and Usage
- Analyzing Language
- Teacher Forum
- You have to sign in if you want to use the materials such as Handouts, Quizzes and Tests etc., which provides for the members. Otherwise, you can see various information if you just click the sections that you need for learnig and teaching English.
2. Good Points and Bad Points
1) Good Points
* Interests
* Efficiency
a) I already mentioned above, this website is very simple and easy to use so that the visitors can save their time to get information. Each category has its sub-contents in it that help users to look into the materials they need. Also, all sub-contents are shown in order with the Student Levels, Alphabets or Topics as well.
b) UsingEnglish.com also provides easy searching tools for their users. This makes users save time and get easy access to the specific materials they want.
2) Bad Points
- I could not find special bad points of this website. I think their informtaion's accuracy and frequecy are very high but need to be more improved. I'd once used the idioms information in my TLS class materials from this website, however, the professor said that some expressions are not in use and he even did not understand.
3. Assessment
- I first used this website as a TESOL student to get resources of class materials. I could get easy access to the materials and good quality information as well. I am very impressed by how they listed the whole information at each section in order. Each section breaks down into in order following the Students' level, Alpahbets and Themes. This can be great help to ESL and EFL teachers to search and choose the exact class materials. The Quizzes, Tests and Games are all seem helpful for teachers and students as well.
-Handouts & Printables, Lesson Plans& Worksheets sections are good functional resource to teachers for getting useful and fast class materials with saving time.
