Tag Archives: word games

YouTube iPhone Screen Recording via QuickTime Player Primer Tutorial

We’ve spoken before about the wonderful Mac OS X QuickTime Player application, and its use on a MacBook Pro, and its capabilities to upload videos to YouTube. That’s all fine and good for Movie and Audio Recordings or Screen Capture … Continue reading

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Word Guessing Game for Two Primer Tutorial

Word Games help vocabulary for ESL students. There is also not much doubt that collaboration can help ESL students, who also learn quicker with other students present. Today we create a web application Word Guessing Game designed for two. Not … Continue reading

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Mixed Up Song Lyrics Game Primer Tutorial

Lots of the best ESL activities revolve around the examination of a sentence and how you go about putting it back together again. Today, we figure the same idea could apply to song lyrics. So what song lyrics do we … Continue reading

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HTML/Javascript Scrabbling Snakes Game Primer Tutorial

Scrabbling Snakes is a hybrid game combining the Scrabble board with styling to look a bit like snakes (well, you had to be there) and with a word scramble game feel. It could do well as a vocabulary improvement game … Continue reading

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Language Word Association Game Tutorial

Yesterday we created English Word Association Game Primer Tutorial as shown below, to show a draft English only version of a Word Association game good for ESL purposes. Today we build on that functionality by allowing Word Associations in French … Continue reading

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English Word Association Game Primer Tutorial

With yesterday’s Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Thesaurus Tutorial, using Yahoo Web Services called YQL, as shown below, building on previous ones here at this blog, we effectively signed off on the final (supplementing recent PHP/CSS Sentence Auxiliary Verb Game … Continue reading

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HTML/Javascript Jobs Match Game Tutorial

Do you like word games? Today’s game asks you to associate job descriptions with words … we’re going to call the game “The Jobs Match Game” (too snappy for you?!) … and you score points for correct word associations you … Continue reading

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PHP/Javascript Prefixes and Suffixes Game Tutorial

Do you like word games? Today’s game asks for word(s) that contain a nominated Prefix or Suffix … we’re going to call the game “The Prefixes and Suffixes Game” (too snappy for you?!) … and you try to build your … Continue reading

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