A hero like no other!

Get ready

1

Read the question: "What’s your definition of a superhero?". Answer these questions about ‘definitions’.

a) Where can you find a definition? (In a poem / In a comic book / In a dictionary).
b) What’s the missing word? ➝ “How do you a superhero?” (definite / define / defend).
c) Which of these elements is not part of a definition? (A translation / An explanation / An example).

2

Click on the words which can follow super to create another word. Use a dictionary to help.
💡 Tip: Hero → superhero.

×

market

win

×

natural

Haggis

×

human

wonder

×

power

spider

×

star

game

3

Link the two parts to create definitions of a superhero. Choose your favourite definition.

4

Brainstorm from the title of the chapter.

5

Check with this table what you already know.

Observe and listen

1

Link the words, then label them according to the image.

2

Listen to the audio. Answer the questions about Wonder Woman.


Wonder Woman

a) First comic published in .
b) She appeared in comics universe.
c) Real-life values she represents: , ,  and .
d) She is a role model for and .
e) Her new ‘role’ is .

3

Fill in the blanks with these words.

Wonder Woman is a

in many ways. Firstly, of course, she is a

book hero fighting against

in DC comics since 1941. In addition, she is a great

to girls and women everywhere. In difficult situations, her strength and

help them to feel powerful.

Let’s have fun

1

Listen to the poem. Highlight the stressed syllables for these words.

“Ordinary hero”

Ordinary heroes.
They are everywhere, everyday,
In all this world’s confusion
And all its disarray.
Ordinary heroes,
Are there to win another fight,
Rather than caped figures running
Proudly through the night.

a) Ordinary. 
b) Heroes. 
c) Everywhere. 
d) Confusion. 
e) Another. 
f) Rather. 
g) Figures. 
h) Proudly. 

2

In many words ending in ‘-er’, the stressed syllable comes just before (another, rather). Practise with this text: shout the stressed syllables, whisper the ‘-er’:

“My father is stronger than the Joker. My mother is faster than the Silver Surfer.”