Hot Spot 3 Heroes' Webquest
Hot Spot 3 Heroes' Webquest
Hot Spot 3 Heroes' Webquest
‘Heroes’ Webquest
Part 1: My hero!
Go to this website and do Exercises 1 – 3 below.
http://www.myhero.com/myhero/go/directory/index.asp
Exercise 1
This website has some ‘heroes’ chosen by people around the world. Click on
the titles and complete the sentences about the heroes below.
Angels
1. Audrey Hepburn was a famous ____________ and ____________ who did
a lot of work for UNICEF*.
Earthkeepers
2. Dian Fossey worked to ____________ the mountain ____________ in
Africa.
Explorers
3. Amelia Earhart was the first woman ____________ to fly across the
____________.
Family
4. Calista M Pierce is a young girl who makes and sells things to raise
____________ for the Special ____________.
Lifesavers
5. Elizabeth Blackwell became Britain’s first female ____________ and
opened a medical ____________ for women.
Scientists
6. Alexander Graham Bell was the ____________ of the ____________.
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Exercise 2
Here are some more ‘heroes’. Without looking at the website, can you match
their names with the things they did?
(6) Theodore Roosevelt… (f) …came from Austria and was a very
famous composer of classical music and
operas.
(7) Mohandas Ghandi…
(g) …was an artist, scientist and inventor. He
is very famous for a painting of a woman
called ‘The Mona Lisa’ (also called ‘La
Giaconda’)
Exercise 3
Ask a classmate about a personal hero that he / she has. Then write four or
five sentences about that hero.
For example: Dilek’s hero is a man called Mustafa Kemal, but everyone calls
him Ataturk. This means ‘Father of the Turks’. He helped her country to
become a modern republic. There are statues and pictures of him in every
town in the country.
____________________________________________________________
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____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Now tell another student in your class about your personal hero.
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Part 2: Unicef!
Go to this website and do Exercises 1 and 2 below.
Audrey Hepburn from part 1 did a lot of work for UNICEF. Go to this website
to read about UNICEF.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_2310000/newsid_2313300/231335
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Exercise 1
Cover (or turn off) your computer screen. How much can you remember?
Decide if these sentences are true (T) or false (F). If they are false, correct
them.
Exercise 2
http://www.mylifeisastory.org/
Lauren Child writes books for children. She also does a lot of work for another
department of the United Nations called UNESCO (United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation). This department helps
children and schools around the world.
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Click on ‘Life stories’, find a boy called Nikiéma Pegwende Charles and read
his story (scroll down to read all of it). Then complete the crossword with
information about him.
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Answers
Part 1
Exercise 1
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Exercise 2
Part 2
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Part 3
Part 1 Exercise 1:
Students need to click on the links (Angels, Animals, Artists, etc) on the page
to find out about the different people. In most cases, once the link has
opened, they will need to scroll down the page to find the name they want.
The words they need to complete their sentences are in the brief introductory
note below each photograph (they do not need to click on the photographs to
find the information they need). To return to the main ‘Heroes’ menu, they
must click on the word ‘Heroes’ in the top-left of the page.
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Part 1 Exercise 2:
The people in this exercise all feature on this website, but you should not
encourage your students to look for them. This is a simple ‘general
knowledge’ quiz.
Part 2 Exercise 1:
Students find the answers by reading the short text.
Part 2 Exercise 2:
To find the answers, students will need to click on the links labelled ‘What is
the UN?’, ‘What does it do?’ and ‘What is the UNHCR?’ They can either use
their own words to answer the questions, or take their answers directly from
the text. You will probably need to explain words such as refugee and
ambassador.
Part 3:
This website takes a few moments to load. When it has, a menu appears
along the top of the page. Students will need to click on ‘Life Stories’. They will
then need to find Nikiéma: he is the boy at the top left of the pictures.
Students will need to scroll up and down the page to find the answers (they
use the yellow and red dot to the left of the text to do this).
Some of the words they need do not actually appear in the text. For example,
the word ‘bike’ is used, but they need ‘bicycle’ to complete the sentence, and
‘schoolmaster’ appears in the text, but they need to use ‘school’ in their
answer. Also, some of the words in the gapped sentences are different from
those in the text. For example, we are told in the text that Nikiéma was born in
March, but the gapped sentence asks students when his birthday is.
Nikiéma makes a few minor errors in English (for example, My parents
manage to buy me the textbooks, the clothes, etc – the zero article should be
used here and I go to school on bike. My brother walk and I am on bike. This
should be I go to school by bike or on my bike.). However generally his
English is very good.
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