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High Int · CLB 7–8
Exercises 9
Vocabulary
90 min
Canada
Culture
Can someone be a hero even if they don’t finish the race? This upper-level lesson uses Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope to look at courage, success and what it means to be a “national hero.” Students work with a vocabulary box of 12 words and phrases, each with an example sentence and collocations (diagnose, amputate, prosthetic, legacy, symbol, activist, astounding, raise money and more), and practise them in sentence matching and a final gap-fill. They watch the video twice, reflect on Terry’s own words about why he could not “leave something like that and forget it” and answer detail questions. They also order the story with sequence expressions and tackle true/false/not given. The last discussion goes deeper: could someone become famous like this today, how do we define success and is a national hero always a straightforward idea? Answer key included.
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