QR Challenge: Comprehension questions for Journey to the centre of the Earth (Macmillan English, Language Book 6, pages 24-26)
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.
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!
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.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
| 1. 1. Who went on a journey to the centre of the Earth? | Professor van Hardwigg, Harry and Hans.
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2. 2. Where did the journey begin? | In the crater of a volcano in Finland.
| 3. 3. Who wrote the diary? | Harry
| 4. 4. Why did the professor lower a metal bar into the sea on some rope? | To measure the depth of the sea.
| 5. 5. What was strange about the metal bar when they pulled it up again? | It had teeth marks on it.
| 6. 6. Why did Harry think something was under the sea? | Because he saw bubbles on the surface.
| 7. 7. What happened on the evening of August 20th? | Giant sea creatures rose up out of the water and surrounded the raft.
| 8. 8. Describe the serpent Harry saw? | It had green scales and a ghastly head. |
Comprehension questions for Journey to the centre of the Earth (Macmillan English, Language Book 6, pages 24-26): QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=1._Who_went_on_a_journey_to_the_centre_of_the_Earth?
Question 1 (of 8)
Comprehension questions for Journey to the centre of the Earth (Macmillan English, Language Book 6, pages 24-26): QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=2._Where_did_the_journey_begin?
Question 2 (of 8)
Comprehension questions for Journey to the centre of the Earth (Macmillan English, Language Book 6, pages 24-26): QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=3._Who_wrote_the_diary?
Question 3 (of 8)
Comprehension questions for Journey to the centre of the Earth (Macmillan English, Language Book 6, pages 24-26): QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=4._Why_did_the_professor_lower_a_metal_bar_into_the_sea_on_some_rope?
Question 4 (of 8)
Comprehension questions for Journey to the centre of the Earth (Macmillan English, Language Book 6, pages 24-26): QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=5._What_was_strange_about_the_metal_bar_when_they_pulled_it_up_again?
Question 5 (of 8)
Comprehension questions for Journey to the centre of the Earth (Macmillan English, Language Book 6, pages 24-26): QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=6._Why_did_Harry_think_something_was_under_the_sea?
Question 6 (of 8)
Comprehension questions for Journey to the centre of the Earth (Macmillan English, Language Book 6, pages 24-26): QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=7._What_happened_on_the_evening_of_August_20th?
Question 7 (of 8)
Comprehension questions for Journey to the centre of the Earth (Macmillan English, Language Book 6, pages 24-26): QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=8._Describe_the_serpent_Harry_saw?
Question 8 (of 8)
