Review of Cool English website

Cool English is Taiwan-based and nonprofit teaching and learning English website. It provides Taiwanese students from elementary to senior high school a myriad of English-learning materials.

The site consists of 4 sections: Elementary, Junior High, Senior High, and Vocational school.
Each section provides learners a variety of materials with different categories: listening, oral, reading, translating practice.

In the listening practice category, students can practice their listening skills by watching movie clips and animations in both English and Chinese version. Also, commonly used idioms or expressions are integrated into the materials' contents to provide students more practical English phrases. After finish watching the video clips, students may take a quiz to recheck what they have learned.

It is as same as in the oral practice that English learners can practice their pronunciations, tones through the video guides. Besides, students can choose their favorite video genres to practice.

The reading materials are less than I expect. I wish there were more reading samples.

From the vocabulary section, I find the collocation part is very useful. However, I notice that there are only over 400 words in total. I hope that the website's administration shall supplement more collocation words in the future.

Also, English learners can study more English's basic grammars through the "Grammar Training Department". what's more, students may take the English test provided by the website to self evaluate their English level.

Last but not least, I love the "Learn English with Songs" game. I think this is the most fun and addictive way to learn English. I have actually played a dozen of them.