QR Challenge: Figurative Language

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. What a breath of fresh air!	idiom
2. I don't give a hill of beans.	idiom
3. Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary...	Alliteration
4. Betty Botter bought some butter, but, she said, the butter’s bitter;	alliteration
5. “You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife."	Alliteration
6. Why do you have a chip on your shoulder?	Idiom
7. That test was a piece of cake!	idiom
8. Her smile is sunshine on a cloudy day.	metaphore
9. He is a night owl.	metaphore
10. Life is a journey.	metaphore
11. My life is a zoo.	metaphore
12. Justice is blind and, at times, deaf.	personification
13. Peggy heard the last piece of cheesecake in the refrigerator calling her name.	personification
14. The candle flame danced in the dark.	personification
15. The young boy is as brave as a lion.	simile
16. The students were as busy as bees.	simile
17. Her room is as clean as a whistle.	simile
18. I was sick as a dog last week.	simile
19. He's got tons of money.	hyperbole
20. I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.	hyperbole
21. I told you a million times to be quiet!	hyperbole
22. Now it's your turn, create your own metaphore or simile.	answer

 

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