Chinese Blog about English

Today I am inviting you to get acquinted with the section  Culture  in the British newspaper The Guardian . It contains a lot of interesting articles about different aspects of British culture as well as about  those from around the world. What you need to do is as follows: 1. Look through a couple of articles in the Culture section and choose one that you found interesting. 2. Read it and then share the following information about it with your peers and me: a) The title b) The author c) The link to the article d) Why you have chosen it e) A brief explanation of somethng you learned from the article f) A couple of things you would like to learn about after reading it 3. Publish this information in your blog. 4. Read 2 posts your peers have written 5. Think of 3 questions you have after reading your peers' posts and share them in your peers' threads. Ask WH-questions and if necessary a question to clarify smth your peer has written about. Good luck! Loo

Dear All, I’d like to wish you good luck with it and hope you will find this course useful. welcome to the course of Academic Writing and your new learning environment! One of the primary purposes of this course is to help you to improve your writing skills through a variety of activities that will be offered to you during this academic year. You will learn more about different aspects of the writing process from brainstorming to drafting, to revising, editing and publishing. You will gain a better understanding of a number of stylistic differences associated with formal and informal styles of writing. You will be able to improve your own writing and help your peers improve theirs too. I hope that this journey will bring you some interesting discoveries and help you to achieve a better mastery of your writing skills. During our next week's class we’ll first finalise all the course setup arrangements, then I’ll comment on a number