Public participation in the Internet has continued to boom. Smartphones are developing rapidly and continually with new features that make them widely used in many contexts. Many people start to use smartphones spontaneously. There are a lot of functions in a smartphone including e-mail, instant messaging, web browsing, utility applications and so on. Some of them even use it as a mean of learning English. As it is very convenient for me no matter at a train or at home, I can still use it to learn English. In fact, there are many apps in the app store, I prefer to choose some apps provided with games so that it will make the whole learning process to be more interesting. Moreover, I found that I have been addicted in the games that are in the apps because it can not only help me to learn English, but it can also provide a comfortable learning environment for me. Therefore, I would like to introduce the apps to all of you.

In this day and age, smartphone has become more and more common. Every one has got a smartphone. Nevertheless, in my opinion, not only can it be used to communicate with the others through apps like Whatsapp, Facebook and so on, but it can also be used to learn English. English acts as an important role for us on communicating with foreign people. That is why it is crucial for us to learn English. In the previous day, as there is no smartphone, we can only learn English through computer, books and television, which is very inconvenient. Nowadays, with the help of smartphones, we can learn English by apps anywhere and any time, which raises my incentives on learning English. Once I have got some time, for example, when I am on the way back home by MTR, I would open the apps and learn English. For the part of listening, in order not to disturb the others, I prefer bringing my own headphone. Therefore, smartphone helps me a lot on facilitating my learning.

全民英檢 is an comprehensive app for us to improve our English level. It includes all the aspects which are reading, listening, writing and speaking. Not only can it improve our English level, but it can also helps us on some international English exams like the General English Proficiency Test. Among each aspect, for example, listening, there divides into two parts, which are ability diagnosis and test section. The former one will help users to diagnose with their English level by asking different kinds of questions such as "Can you fully understand the content of the News Report?". After that, it will help you to determine which level are them at. Then, users can start to use the app to learn English according to their levels. There are totally three levels which are primary, secondary and high level. In fact, this app has divided the learning resources into two parts, the first part is the free resources and the second part is the paid resources. For the former one, there are totally 8000 words with word descriptions and several mock tests while the latter one will provide a more comprehensive instructions for learning English. Therefore, if users think that the free resources are not enough, they can make the paid resources into consideration.

英語學堂 is an app that concentrates on the dialogue exercises which helps us on enhancing different perspectives of our English skills such as listening, writing and speaking. It is developed by Ng Wing Hing. The simple interfaces make the app easier to use which is suitable for both old and young. Once opening the app, it will show the newest mottos around the world. Moreover, apart from the newest mottos, there is also another choice which is the random one with a dice icon. A motto will be chosen randomly and show it to users. Thus, after learning the motto, users can also press the dice icon and then randomly choose another. Most importantly, there is a chinese translation for each motto, if users meet some words that they haven't seen before, there is a translation under each motto or they can press the dictionary below and tap on a word to see its meaning. When users find that some of the mottos are meaningful to them, they can bookmark them and review them in "My favourite". At the same time, they can also share them to different communication apps including Whatsapp and Facebook. It is undoubtedly an user-friendly app. Nevertheless, the most annoying thing is that there are quite a lot of advertisement. This app will be perfect without advertising.