The document discusses the Hot Potatoes software, a program for creating interactive exercises such as quizzes and puzzles for webmasters, teachers, and students. It features five modules (JCLoze, JMatch, JQuiz, JCross, JMix) that facilitate different types of exercises and is noted for being user-friendly and effective for language practice. It concludes that the software allows teachers to create engaging content that enhances learners' language skills.

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González Arredondo Beatriz Adriana
Ochoa Pineda Bianca Viviana
Ortiz Íñiguez Valeria

2. What is a Puzzle Maker?

4. How to use it?
 Is an exercise-creating program which can be used by
webmasters, teachers and even students to make a variety of
interactive exercises.
 All that is required of the program user is to write questions
and answers, or to import data such as texts or images.
 The program also has the ability to change the provided data
into interactive exercises and export them as web pages.

5. Five modules
 Jcloze: is used to make gap-fill exercises in which learners
are required to type the correct missing word in the blank
space provided.
 Jmatch: is used to create matching exercisesand either words
(text) or images can be matched.
 Jquiz: is used to create multiple-choice or short-answer
exercises.
 Jcross: is used to create crossword puzzles.
 Jmix: is used to create jumbled-sentence exercises.

6. Evaluation:
•It has a variety of straightforward and descriptive features
•It is a handy and useful freeware program for webmasters,
teachers, and everyone interested in making interactive
exercises for different purposes.
•It is user-friendly and easy to work with.

7. In conclusion…
•Hot Potatoes is a great freeware program for language teachers to
create or upload exercises on their personal websites, class group
sites, or on the password-protected Hotpotatoes.net.
•Creating exercises for learners gives them space to repeatedly
practice the target language.
•Having students create exercises may allow them to both learn the
concepts and practise their language skills through the creation of
the exercise

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