Category Archives: ESL

English as a second language (ESL) is the use or study of English by speakers with different native languages ( Wikipedia )

HTML/Javascript Adjectives vs Adverbs Lesson Plan Tutorial

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Yesterday we outlined a web application feeding off a previous web application’s web design coding “innards”, benefitting from commonalities such as … their multiple choice “feel” commonality … and … perhaps rather optimistically … the feel that there was commonality … Continue reading →

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HTML/Javascript Adjectives versus Adverbs Primer Tutorial

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Sometimes really diverse web applications can benefit from very similar web design “innards”. Or maybe part of all this is that when you get a really good web design “innard” it can be “wielded” to surprising amounts and variations of … Continue reading →

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HTML/Javascript Present Perfect Progressive Primer Tutorial

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Today’s very alliterative blog posting title, alas, doesn’t mean The Three P’s have had any offspring, but we can say today, that we are continuing on our ESL word and sentence game quest to help improve English usage for advanced … Continue reading →

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HTML/Javascript Hearing and Listening Primer Tutorial

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We’ve got a web application on the theme of Listening and Hearing, today, written such that it doesn’t need serverside (in our case, PHP) constituents, just HTML and Javascript and CSS, with a lot of help from various sources as … Continue reading →

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Word Guessing Game for Two Primer Tutorial

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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

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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 Email Tutorial

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Scrabbling Snakes, as we explained yesterday with HTML/Javascript Scrabbling Snakes Game Primer Tutorial as shown below, is a hybrid game combining the Scrabble board with styling to look a bit like snakes (well, you had to be there) and with … Continue reading →

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Yahoo YQL JSON Thesaurus Gettext Translation Tutorial

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Recently we talked about PHP methods to facilitate (language) internationalization via the “gettext” Human Language and Character Encoding Support module with the PHP Gettext Internationalization Primer Tutorial. Yesterday’s Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Thesaurus Tutorial as shown below, is a … Continue reading →

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