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
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
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!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
1. Line that shows how the narrator feels about Kaleda's name? | But when I was told the name of my companion my heart sank. | 2. Finish the line: I felt pretty sure that a closer inspection of that British passport would have betrayed the fact that Mr Kaleda..." | was born under a bluer sky than is generally seen in England | 3. Finish the line: "Mr Kaleda's brushes, ebony with his monogram in gold, would have been..." | all the better for a scrub | 4. What nationality is the narrator? | English | 5. What does Mr Kaleda offer the narrator? | alcohol | 6. Page 3 Line 2: Mr Kaleda was....? | chatty | 7. There's nothing more exasperating when you are playing than.... | to be told where to put the card you have turned up before have had the chance to look for yourself | 8. How did Mr Kaleda involve himself in the ships social life? | line 70 | 9. What made people call Mr. Kaleda "Mr. Know All?" | He did all the jobs and argued a lot. | 10. Who was Mr Ramsay and why had he been to New York? | Worked for Amrican Consular Service in Kobe, to get his wife. | 11. What is our first impression of Mrs. Ramsay? | She is modest, simple, pleasant, quiet. | 12. The narrator says Mrs. Ramsay "possessed a quality that may be common enough in women, but nowadays is not obvious in their demeanour." Why is this ironic | Because in the end she cheated on her husband. | 13. What was the purpose of Mr. Kaleda's voyage? | to buy and sell pearls. | 14. What was the bet about? | whether Mrs. Ramsay's pearls were real. | 15. What was Mrs. Ramsay's reaction to the bet? | she says you can't bet on certainty.line 126 | 16. Who won the bet? | Mr.Ramsay | 17. What happened the morning after Mr. Ramsay won the bet? | Mrs. R gave back the money and wrote a thank you note. | 18. What was the major secret? | Mrs Ramsay cheated on Mr. and got real pearls from her lover. | 19. Why does Kaleda say:"If I had a pretty little wife I shouldn't let her spend a year in New York while I stayed at Kobe." | because she cheated. | 20. What is the message of the story? | not to be judgemental | 21. What was the climax? | when Kaleda had to decide whether to lie or not. | 22. How did Mr Kaleda suffer from losing the bet? | everyone made fun of him. |
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