HTML/Javascript Homonyms Game Tutorial
ESL (or “English as a Second or Foreign Language”) is a term for the study of English as a Second Language, and is of particular relevance to immigrants to English speaking countries from non-English speaking backgrounds.
One of the most confusing things about learning English, to do with vocabulary, is that English is full of words which sound the same but mean completely different things. The relationship of such “same sounding” words is called a Homonym. To point out all these Homonyms to ESL students is impossible (or to native speakers, for that matter), because there are too many ways to work an English sentence, that the possibilities for confusion with words of the same sound but different meaning, are almost infinite.
If the ESL teaching is not face to face, what could help here? Well, we think the use of …
- a thesaurus
- a search engine phrase image search
… could help, but we do not pretend that this replaces face to face explanations.
So we’ve written a live run of the HTML and Javascript homonym_game.html supervising an HTML iframe call of Ajax_yql_thesaurus.html (changed from the days at Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Thesaurus Tutorial as per Ajax_yql_thesaurus.html so that a URL such as Sense of Humour will take you straight to the phrase’s thesaurus lookup).
When you first go in you are presented by the phrase …
Sense of Humour
… and if you can project yourself into the frame of mind of someone new to English, maybe, you may wonder about those “coins” you may have been using (in Australia, at least), like the 50 “cents” coin or the 20 “cents” coin, which have that same first word sound. It can be confusing, so we use a thesaurus to show how “Sense of Humour” is a phrase that means something, and that’s all good, but no thesaurus will work for quite legitimate phrase combinations that are okay, so this “tool” is only part of what we need, or is useful. We think to feed the phrase into a Google search for images can help as well, maybe even more than the thesaurus idea. As you can imagine, though, nothing beats a face to face explanation.
All that being as it may, give the live run a go, and make up some of your own in an option of the top dropdown. If you do, you’ll soon see how easy they can be assembled, because English is full of Homonym possibilities.
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