{"id":14796,"date":"2015-05-14T05:01:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=14796"},"modified":"2015-05-13T13:59:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T03:59:09","slug":"htmljavascript-homonyms-game-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/htmljavascript-homonyms-game-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"HTML\/Javascript Homonyms Game Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/homonym_game.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"HTML\/Javascript Homonymns Game Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/homonym.jpg\" title=\"HTML\/Javascript Homonyms Game Tutorial\"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">HTML\/Javascript Homonyms Game Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a target=_blank title='ESL information fro Wikipedia ... thanks' href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_as_a_second_or_foreign_language'>ESL<\/a> (or &#8220;English as a Second or Foreign Language&#8221;) 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;same sounding&#8221; words is called a <a target=_blank title='Homonyms information from Wikipedia ... thanks' href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homonym'>Homonym<\/a>.  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.<\/p>\n<p>If the ESL teaching is not face to face, what could help here?  Well, we think the use of &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a thesaurus<\/li>\n<li>a search engine phrase image search<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; could help, but we do not pretend that this replaces face to face explanations.<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ve written a <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/homonym_game.html\" title='Click picture'>live run<\/a> of the HTML and Javascript <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/homonym_game.html_GETME\" title=\"homonym_game.html\">homonym_game.html<\/a> supervising an HTML iframe call of <a target=_blank title='Ajax_yql_thesaurus.html' href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/PHP\/YQL\/Thesaurus\/Ajax_yql_thesaurus.html--GETME'>Ajax_yql_thesaurus.html<\/a> (changed from the days at <a target=_blank title='Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Thesaurus Tutorial' href='https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/yahoo-yql-web-service-json-thesaurus-tutorial\/'>Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Thesaurus Tutorial<\/a> as per <a target=_blank title='Ajax_yql_thesaurus.html' href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/PHP\/Geographicals\/diff.php?one=http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/PHP\/YQL\/Thesaurus\/Ajax_yql_thesaurus.html--GETME'>Ajax_yql_thesaurus.html<\/a> so that a URL such as <a target=_blank title='Sense of Humour thesaurus result' href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/PHP\/YQL\/Thesaurus\/Ajax_yql_thesaurus.html?startwith=sense%20of%20humour'>Sense of Humour<\/a> will take you straight to the phrase&#8217;s thesaurus lookup).<\/p>\n<p>When you first go in you are presented by the phrase &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code>Sense of Humour<\/code><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; and if you can project yourself into the frame of mind of someone new to English, maybe, you may wonder about those &#8220;coins&#8221; you may have been using (in Australia, at least), like the 50 &#8220;cents&#8221; coin or the 20 &#8220;cents&#8221; coin, which have that same first word sound.  It can be confusing, so we use a thesaurus to show how &#8220;Sense of Humour&#8221; is a phrase that means something, and that&#8217;s all good, but no thesaurus will work for quite legitimate phrase combinations that are okay, so this &#8220;tool&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>All that being as it may, give the <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/homonym_game.html\" title='Click picture'>live run<\/a> a go, and make up some of your own in an option of the top dropdown.  If you do, you&#8217;ll soon see how easy they can be assembled, because English is full of Homonym possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d14796' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d14796\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?tag=ESL\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d14796' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESL (or &#8220;English as a Second or Foreign Language&#8221;) 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. 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