{"id":20439,"date":"2016-03-02T03:01:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T17:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=20439"},"modified":"2016-03-07T13:08:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T03:08:57","slug":"english-phrasal-verb-game-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/english-phrasal-verb-game-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"English Phrasal Verb Game Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/Canvas\/Game\/Chalkboard\/phrasalverbs_chalkboard.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"English Phrasal Verb Game Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/Canvas\/Game\/Chalkboard\/Phrasal_Verb.jpg\" title=\"English Phrasal Verb Game Primer Tutorial\"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">English Phrasal Verb Game Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s three different sources now that have told us that Phrasal verbs, in English, are about the hardest issue for early learners of English, as there is no real pattern to why they are the way they are.<\/p>\n<p>The three sources?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>my first TESOL lecturer<\/li>\n<li>the TESOL course notes<\/li>\n<li>current Italian teacher<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Consequently, it ends up that <a target=_blank title='ESL information from Wikipedia' href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_as_a_second_or_foreign_language'>ESL<\/a> students, more or less, have to memorize them, to learn them.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we&#8217;ve written a web application to try to help.  Today&#8217;s game asks you to fill in the game&#8217;s missing start, middle (after all, with a lot of phrasal verbs the context matters &#8230; a lot) or end to a phrasal verb, and we&#8217;ll call the game <i>&#8220;The Phrasal Verb DotDotDot Game&#8221;<\/i> (hopefully not too snappy for you?!) &#8230; and you score points for each correct phrasal verb you form.  It uses English phrasal verbs, 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>This <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/Canvas\/Game\/Chalkboard\/phrasalverbs_chalkboard.html\" title=\"Phrasal Verb 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\/Canvas\/Game\/Chalkboard\/phrasalverbs_chalkboard.html\">live run<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, see how you go with this ESL sentence game that makes use of a (HTML <a target=_blank title='HTML Canvas element information from w3schools' href='http:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/tags\/ref_canvas.asp'>canvas<\/a> element) chalkboard!  We really like using the HTML canvas element for the simulation of a school blackboard, but readily admit that <a target=_blank title='Smartboard information from Wikipedia ... thanks' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smart_Board'>smartboards<\/a> (or interactive whiteboards) have come a long way since then, helping teachers teach and collaborate with students.<\/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\/Canvas\/Game\/Chalkboard\/phrasalverb_chalkboard.html_GETME\" title=\"phrasalverb_chalkboard.html\">phrasalverb_chalkboard.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;d like to thank <a target=_blank title='Useful link' href='https:\/\/www.englishclub.com\/vocabulary\/phrasal-verbs-list.htm'>this link<\/a> for a great list of phrasal verbs (thanks for the list and you can find senrence examples at this link too) and, as per usual with ESL games, <a target=_blank title='Free Dictionary' href='http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com'>The Free Dictionary<\/a> for the phrasal verb lookups that may help linked off the underlined dot.<\/p>\n<p>So here is the HTML and Javascript <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/Canvas\/Game\/Chalkboard\/phrasalverbs_chalkboard.html_GETME\">phrasalverbs_chalkboard.html<\/a> source code and here is a <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/Canvas\/Game\/Chalkboard\/phrasalverbs_chalkboard.html\" title='click picture'>live run<\/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='#d20439' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d20439\"); 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='d20439' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s three different sources now that have told us that Phrasal verbs, in English, are about the hardest issue for early learners of English, as there is no real pattern to why they are the way they are. 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