Task 11.1

Set of Hotpotatoes activities: 'cloze'

Today’s post is devoted to show you a set of activities created with a very useful tool called Hotpotatoes. You can download it here. This program includes six applications, enabling you to create online multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crosswords, matching and gap-fill exercises. You can integrate a song or a video in the exercises.

In our case, we have used the lyrics of the song I bet my life by the group Imagine Dragons in the six exercises, so students can listen to the song and complete the missing words, answer to short questions about it, solve a crossword to focus on some relevant vocabulary, practise the word order in some sentences or learn some spelling by choosing the correct option in each case. This is a very good way for students to practise listening skills, pronunciation, vocabulary and spelling.

Here you are the videoclip of the song we have chosen. You can listen to it while completing the set of exercises based on the song:

In this post, we show the first of the activities, called 'cloze', which is about completing some of the words of the song while listening to the song. We will show the next activities in the following posts, as there is a technical problem when we try to post all the activities in the same post.

I bet my life

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. In some cases, you will need to choose the correct option from three aternatives.

I know I the path that you never want for me, I know I you , didn't I?
So many nights, Where you were on me
Well just a slave unto the night, Now when I told you that's the last you'll see of me
Remember when I you to tears, I know I took the path that you never want for me, I you hell through all the years

So I, I my life, I bet my life, I bet my life you
I, I bet my life, I bet my , I bet my life on you

been around the world but never in my wildest dreams, Would I come home to you
I've a million lies, But now I a single truth
There's you in I do, Now remember when I told you that's the last see of me
Remember when I broke you down to , I know I took the that you would never want for me, I gave you through all the years

So I, I bet my life, I bet my life, I bet my life on you
I, I bet my life, I bet my life, I bet my life on you

Don't tell me that I'm , I've that road before
I left you on your , And please them when they say
That it's left for , And the that I've played, Please me for all I've done

So I, I bet my life, I bet my life, I bet my life on you
I, I bet my life, I bet my life, I bet my life on you

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