{"id":20103,"date":"2016-02-12T03:01:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T17:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=20103"},"modified":"2016-02-13T09:13:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T23:13:39","slug":"htmljavascript-english-collective-noun-game-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/htmljavascript-english-collective-noun-game-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"HTML\/Javascript English Collective Noun Game Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/collective_nouns.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"HTML\/Javascript English Collective Noun Game Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/collective_nouns.jpg\" title=\"HTML\/Javascript English Collective Noun Game Tutorial\"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">HTML\/Javascript English Collective Noun Game Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today we have a game to test your knowledge of English collective nouns, and we invite you to play with another player, and add your own, maybe while they aren&#8217;t looking?!  (Hint: Try the middle Dot).<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s data source inspirations are from <a target=_blank href='http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/weird-animal-group-names\/' title='21 Weird Names For Groups of Animals ... thanks'>here<\/a> and <a target=_blank href='http:\/\/www.hintsandthings.co.uk\/kennel\/collectives.htm' title='Collective nouns and terms for groups of animals other groups including birds ... thanks'>here<\/a> &#8230; so thanks a lot.<\/p>\n<p>This <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/collective_nouns.html\" title=\"Conjunction Sentence Game\">game<\/a> uses HTML and Javascript programming languages.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully you can figure the rules when you click the picture above for a <a target=_blank title=\"live run\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/collective_noun.html\">live run<\/a>.  This game could be excellent for your <a target=_blank title='ESL information from Wikipedia ... thanks' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_as_a_second_or_foreign_language'>ESL<\/a> student.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, see how you go with this sometimes guessing (otherwise your English vocabulary is excellent) game that is ideal for you and the &#8220;brains trust&#8221;, and makes use of a (HTML canvas element) chalkboard!<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to some downloadable HTML (with Javascript) programming code you could rename to <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/collective_nouns.html_GETME\" title=\"collective_nouns.html\">collective_nouns.html<\/a>.<\/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='#20103' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d20103\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?tag=esl\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d20103' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we have a game to test your knowledge of English collective nouns, and we invite you to play with another player, and add your own, maybe while they aren&#8217;t looking?! (Hint: Try the middle Dot). 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