QR Challenge: HCCS European Day of Languages Quiz

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. 1. What is the German word for their underground system?	U-Bahn
2. 2. In which country is the language Cymraeg spoken?	Wales
3. 3. From which language do we get the word graffiti ?	Italian
4. 4. Where might someone greet you with Bore Da ?(Pronounced BOH-ray DAH)	Wales
5. 5. What does “me encantan los idiomas” mean in English?	I love languages
6. 6. What languages does Will Smith speak?	English and Spanish
7. 7. Which country traditionally gives London a Christmas Tree for Trafalgar Square?	Norway
8. 8. In the football team Real Madrid, what does Real mean? a. great b. real c. royal	Royal
9. 9. Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalianism is the love of what?	The love of long words.
10. 10. Name 2 of the four official languages of Switzerland	German, French, Italian and Rumantsch

 

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