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‘Heroes’ Webquest

The best time to use this Webquest is at the end of Module 2.

Part 1: My hero!
Go to this website and do Exercises 1 – 3 below.

http://www.myhero.com/myhero/go/directory/index.asp

Everybody has a ‘hero’, someone they respect. Sometimes a hero is someone

very famous, and sometimes a hero can be a friend, a family member, or even
an animal.

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*.

(* See Parts 2 and 3 for information about 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?

(a) …was one of the people who started the

company ‘Microsoft’. In the 1990s he started
his own charity to help people around the
(1) Mother Teresa… world.

(b) …was a peaceful man who helped India

(2) Wolfgang Amadeus to become an independent country.
Mozart…
(c) …was a President of the USA who
worked very hard to protect the environment.
(3) Leonardo da Vinci… The Teddy bear is named after him!

(d) …explored the oceans of the world and

(4) Bill Gates… invented the ‘Aqualung’, which helped
people breathe underwater.

(5) Jacques Cousteau… (e) …looked after poor people (especially

children) in countries like India and Ethiopia.

(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.

1. UNICEF stands for ‘Union of National Children’s Funds’. T/F

______________________________________________
2. It looks after the needs of children and mothers around
the world. T/F
______________________________________________
3. It works with communities and governments in about
100 countries. T/F
______________________________________________
4. It was created in November 1964. T/F
______________________________________________
5. One of its supporters is Liverpool Football Club. T/F
______________________________________________

Exercise 2

On the same website, find the answers to these questions:

1. How many countries are members of the UN (United Nations)?

2. When was it created?
3. What does the UN work for?
4. Where is the UN based?
5. What does the UNHCR do?
6. What do famous people like Angelina Jolie do for the UNHCR?

Part 3: Life stories!

Go to this website and do the Exercise below.

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.

1. He’s always busy and never gets _____.

2. His birthday is in _____.
3. He eats his lunch at _____.
4. He has _____ in the morning and the afternoon (until 3 o’clock)
5. He likes to listen to _____.
6. His brothers _____ to and from school.
7. His school is less than one _____ from his home.
8. He feels very happy when he’s _____ at school.
9. He has got _____ brothers and sisters.
10. When it’s hot, he sleeps _____.
11. His favourite sport is _____.
12. When he’s older, he wants to work in a _____.
13. He goes to school on his _____.
14. He is _____ years old.

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Answers

Part 1

Exercise 1

1. actress / dancer, 2. protect / gorillas, 3. pilot / Atlantic,

4. money / Olympics, 5. doctor / school, 6. inventor / telephone,

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Exercise 2

1. (e), 2. (f), 3. (g), 4. (a), 5. (d), 6. (c), 7. (b).

Part 2

Exercise 1

1. False. The United Nations Children’s Fund.

2. True.
3. False. It works in more than 160 countries.
4. False. It was created in December 1946.
5. False. It’s supporters include Manchester United Football Club.

Exercise 2

1. 192, 2. 1945, 3. World peace and development, 4. New York, 5. It

protects refugees and sorts out refugee problems, 6. They are goodwill
ambassadors; they raise awareness of refugee problems.

Part 3

1. bored, 2. March, 3. home, 4. lessons, 5. stories, 6. walk,

7. kilometre, 8. working, 9. four, 10. outside, 11. football, 12. school,
13. bicycle, 14. fourteen

Teacher’s notes for using search engines and links:

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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