To download this program you need to go to http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ and register.

Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence.

Hot Potatoes is an application that helps you create online activities for your students: matching and gap-fill exercises, interactive quizzes, crosswords and jumbled sentences.

To start with, have a look at this excellent screencast tutorial for Hot Potatoes by Tim Van Slike.

This is the standard tutorial and this is a windows help file in PDF format.

Now have a look at some sites and activities designed with Hot Potatoes:

Some example exercises .

Some of my own activities for grammar, vocabulary, reading and songs.

Dyana's site, with listening comprehension activities.

Isabel Perez includes workshops and other software too.

You can't miss The Language Teaching Clipart Library, with lots of pictures to include in your Hot Pot activities. Here are some sound effects you can use.

Getting started: prepositions ; letter ; The Amish : The Gold Rush ; Pubs

Course notes & course activities webpage

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