QR Challenge: foreign words

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. To a sickening or excessive degree; literally translated, “to the point of disgust”?	Ad nauseam
2. In good faith; genuine?	Bona fide
3. Good trip?	Bon voyage
4. Seize the day?	Carpe diem
5. Unrestricted power to act on one’s own; literally translated, “blank card”?	Carte blanche
6. Let the buyer beware?	Caveat emptor
7. That’s life or such as life; literally translated, “it is the life”?	C’est la vie
8. A triumphant finishing blow?	Coup de grace
9. Made for a particular day; literally translated, “of the day”?	Du jour
10. Therefore; hence?	Ergo
11. United States?	Estados Unidos
12. Done afterward; retroactive; literally translated, “after the fact”?	Ex post facto
13. An accomplished fact, presumably irreversible?	Fait accompli
14. A social blunder?	Faux pax
15. An equal exchange, “this for that”?	quid pro quo
16. Socially awkward?	gauche
17. See you later?	hasta la vista
18. My fault?	mea culpa
19. A person’s manner of working; “mode of operation”?	modus operandi
20. My house is your house?	mi casa es su casa
21. Behind the times?	passé
22. “Pen Name”, false name used for an author?	nom de plume
23. In the exact words, word for word?	verbatim
24. With highest honor, “with highest praise”?	summa cum laude

 

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