Hot Potatoes Basics

Hot Potatoes are perhaps the oldest living and regularly upgraded, free, authoring software for making interactive exercises. It offers five types of tasks: multiple choice, gapfill, matching, crossword and jumbled letters/words/sentences.


TASK 1
Which of the five above mentioned types is the most simple for students? Why?

TASK 2
Choose a target age group and a topic for your own HotPot project – a vocabulary field, which is taught at basic schools. Write your choice into the comment to this blog to register – each student must have an unique topic.
List ten vocabulary items belonging to the chosen field; these you will present and practice in your HotPot exercises.

TASK 3
Start working on a matching exercise, presenting the meaning of the ten words you have chosen. You can use translation, synonyms, antonyms, explanation or pictures (20K max size, approx. 150*150 pixels, all the same format!)



Remember!

1. No diacritics, no spaces in filenames.
Save everything you want to put online into a single folder. HotPot do not work with subfolders.
Save your changes regularly.

2. When working with HP, you enter and edit in a “T’s Book” – a file with the extension .j** (.jcl. jmt…)
After finishing the exercise, you EXPORT it into html (“S’s book”). The names of the files should be identical, apart from the extension.
Save the .j** files carefully! They cannot be restored from html.