Hot Potatoes: Let's Make a Simple Exercise

May 30, 2020

Hot Potatoes is Half-Baked Mobile shareware based at The University of Victoria in Canada. It's a program that lets you do six different self-testing styles of exercise. These exercises can also be easily imported into an LMS such as Moodle which can be used to test the learning material. Hot Potatoes was originally intended to produce language exercises, and otherwise, certain HotPot exercises such as jumbled sentences, crossword, and others.

Hot potatoes provide six different features that will help you to make 6 different styles of language exercise, but I want to explain about 5 features that I use for making some exercise.

1. JCloze: this feature will help you to make a fill in the blank exercise.

2. JMatch: You can use JMatch to make an exercise that requires students to matching the words or something, or It’s kind like matching pairs game.

3. JQuiz: this feature will help us to make a multiple-choice, short answer and some quiz exercise.

4. JCross: Using JCross you can make a crossword game easily.

 5. JMix: this feature helps you to make an unarranged sentence exercise but there will be several alternative answers.

Before you make an exercise if you are a teacher make sure that you have a lesson plan four your teaching guide. Here I have the example of a lesson plan if you want to teach English using hot potatoes. I also give the example of an exercise that made using all the five features in Hot Potatoes.

Download Lesson Plan

Download the Example of Hot Potatoes

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