Category Archives: Games

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ESL Under The Stairs Game Overlay Primer Tutorial

The HTML map element can be used in a variety of ways, two of which we hone in on with today’s ESL Vocabulary game “Under the Stairs”, a revisit of our previous English Learning – Vocabulary – Under The Stairs … Continue reading

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HTML/Javascript ESL Reveal Game Tutorial

Maybe you’ve been reading this blog some time and remember the “reveal” themed blog posting called HTML/Javascript Reveal Image Behind Image Primer Tutorial? Well, today’s ESL sentence game has many similarities, except that instead of an image in front of … 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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Number Plate Numbers Game Tutorial

Sometimes in mathematics it’s hard to tie concepts down to real world experience. Personally, I’ve often wondered about the use of factorials. Then we read here that there are n! different ways of arranging n objects in sequence. Then, yesterday, … Continue reading

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HTML/Javascript Scrabbling Snakes Game Email Tutorial

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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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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HTML/Javascript KenKen Game Primer Tutorial

KenKen is a well known mathematical game, featuring in the puzzle section of some newspapers. We see it here in Sydney, Australia, in The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper. Do not know what the paper KenKen puzzle creators use to create … Continue reading

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