HOT POTATOES
In this post, I share my experience in using the Hot Potatoes for teaching language courses in English
with different levels. Hot Potatoes is probably the most popular authoring software among language
teachers. It is produced by Half-Baked Software. Hot Potatoes provides you with a user-friendly
interface which takes the hard work out of producing exercise, you simply type list of words you
want to include in your crossword and the program makes a grad accommodating all those words.
There are five basic programs in the Hot Potatoes:
1.The JQuiz program: creates question-based quizzes. Questions can be of four different types,
including multiple-choice and short-answer. Specific feedback can be provided both for right
answers and predicted wrong answers or distracters.
2.The JCloze program: creates gap-fill exercises. Unlimited correct answers can be specified for
each gap and the students can ask for a hint and see a letter of the correct answer. The program
allows gapping of selected words.
3.The JCross program: creates crossword puzzles which can be completed online. You can use a
grid of virtually any size.
4.The JMix program: creates jumbled-sentence exercises. You can specify as many different
correct answers as you want.
5.The JMatch program: creates matching or ordering exercises. A list of fixed items appears on the
left. These can be pictures or text with jumbled items on the right.
In a conclusion, Hot Potatoes program is very useful electronic to help the learners interesting in
practicing some exercises. We could create our interactive exercises by adding a readin text, sound,
video and link.
with different levels. Hot Potatoes is probably the most popular authoring software among language
teachers. It is produced by Half-Baked Software. Hot Potatoes provides you with a user-friendly
interface which takes the hard work out of producing exercise, you simply type list of words you
want to include in your crossword and the program makes a grad accommodating all those words.
There are five basic programs in the Hot Potatoes:
1.The JQuiz program: creates question-based quizzes. Questions can be of four different types,
including multiple-choice and short-answer. Specific feedback can be provided both for right
answers and predicted wrong answers or distracters.
2.The JCloze program: creates gap-fill exercises. Unlimited correct answers can be specified for
each gap and the students can ask for a hint and see a letter of the correct answer. The program
allows gapping of selected words.
3.The JCross program: creates crossword puzzles which can be completed online. You can use a
grid of virtually any size.
4.The JMix program: creates jumbled-sentence exercises. You can specify as many different
correct answers as you want.
5.The JMatch program: creates matching or ordering exercises. A list of fixed items appears on the
left. These can be pictures or text with jumbled items on the right.
In a conclusion, Hot Potatoes program is very useful electronic to help the learners interesting in
practicing some exercises. We could create our interactive exercises by adding a readin text, sound,
video and link.
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