1. Heroes

2. Warm-up What kind of persons can be heroes or heroines ? a) Someone who is famous for being brave or good. b) a sports or film star you admire c) the main character in a story,novel,movie

3. Heroes He is a popular Chinese basketball player.

4. Mother Teresa was an unusual woman who devoted all her life to helping the poor and sick in India.

5. Hamlet is the sensitive and indecisive hero of Shakespeare’s play.

6. 1.well-known/famous heroes/heroines 2.unsung hero/heroines who is an ordinary person who regularly does heroic things but will never become famous

7. Classify the adjectives in the Key Words box as positive or negative. Key Words brave, calm, cruel, dangerous, generous, honest, humorous, kind, pleasant, smart, violent

8. Positive brave calm generous honest humorous kind pleasant smart Negative cruel dangerous violent cowardly mean stupid untrue indecisive sensitive

9. Nemo Finding Nemo

10. Bright Jones Bridget Jones’s Diary

11. Spider-man Dr. Octopus

12. Listening 2 Listen to descriptions of three film characters. Match them with the following adjectives: 1 Nemo 2 Bright Jones 3 Dr Octopus a) smart but cruel and violent b) brave and humorous c) pleasant and humorous

13. Now write three sentences about some film heroes, heroines and villains that you know well and read them to your group. Use the Key Words to help you. Example: Scar is a cruel and dangerous character in Lion King. Writing

14. In groups, please write a character description of a well- known film or television actor without saying who he/she is. Then exchange your description with another group and try to guess who is being described.

15. For example He is a well-known film star. He is from Hong Kong. He is not very tall but strong and brave. His action is humorous and funny. He is famous for Chinese Kung Fu. Who can it be?