Unit 2 HeroesUnit 2 Heroes

What’re the similarities (相似之处 ) of these people?

They are brave, unselfish famous(well-known), great, successful, hard-working,

kind, helpful…

All of them are heroes.

Work in pairs, speaking out the names of different kinds of heroes and heroines.

a) a sports or film star you admire

b)someone famous for being brave and good

c) the main character from a story

Key words

brave calm cruel dangerous generous honest humorous kind pleasant smart violent

Using adjectives to

describe a hero or

a villain. ['vilən]

(anti-hero反派人物 )

Mr. Zeng and Mr. Bean arehumorous.

Feifei is pleasant and kind.

generous.

Li Jiacheng is

The child in Empire’s New Clothes is Only he tells the truth. honest.

Jerry is very smart.

The Spiderman is brave and calm.

Ben Laden is dangerous

to the world.

violent and cruel.Hitler was

humorous

smart

dangerouspleasantkind

generous

honestviolent, cruel

brave, calm

adj.0

humoroussmart

dangerous

pleasantkind

generous

honest violent, cruel

brave, calm

adj.

Classifying the adjectives as positive or negative?

brave, Positive:

Negative: dangerous,

calm, generous, honest,

humorous, kind, smart

violent, cruel

cowardly ['kauɚdlɪ] , mean, stupid, foolish…

Nemo

Bridget Jones Dr Octopus

Finding Nemo

b) Brave and humorous

1. Nemo a) Smart but cruel and violent

2. Bridget Jones

3. Dr Octopus c) Pleasant and humorous

Guessing games

Try to use the adjectives you learned to describe a hero or a villain. You can’t speak out the person’s name, let others guess who he/she is .

Useful adjectives:Useful adjectives:

friendly, thoughtful, friendly, thoughtful, creative, dishonest, creative, dishonest, active, cool, gentle, active, cool, gentle, intelligent (clever), intelligent (clever),

hard-working (tireless), hard-working (tireless), good-looking…good-looking…

Mother Teresa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in1979, dedicated ['dɛdə,ketid] the majority [mə'dʒɔrətɪ] of her life to helping the poorest of the poor in India.

• Advice from Mother Teresa•     People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-

centered: Forgive them anyway.•     If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish,

ulterior motives: Be kind anyway.•     If you are successful, you will win some false friends and

true enemies: Succeed anyway.•     If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you: Be

frank and honest anyway.•     What you spend years building, someone could destroy

overnight: Build anyway.•     The good you do today, people will often forget

tomorrow: Do good anyway.•    Give the world the best you have and it may never be

enough: Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.•     You see, in the final analysis, it’s between you and God:

It was never between you and them anyway.

• 人们常常蛮不讲理、不合逻辑和喜欢以自我为中心：无论如何，原谅他们！

• 如果你很友善，人们也可能会谴责你有自私、不可告人的动机：无论如何，善良一些！

•      如果你成功，你将会有一些虚情假意的朋友跟一些真正的敌人：无论如何，要成功啊！

•      如果你诚实率直，人们可能会欺骗你：无论如何，诚实率直些！

•      可能你耗时经年来盖房子，某人会在一夜之间将之毁于一旦：无论如何，还是盖吧！

•      今天你的善行，人们常常明天就会忘记：无论如何，做些好事！

•      贡献你最好的东西给世界，或许它永远不够：无论如何，将你最好的贡献出来给世界！

•      你看，最后你跟上帝站在了一起：无论如何，你永远不会跟其他那些人在一起！

Homework

Finish exercise 1,2,3,4,5 ,7on page 22