Hero There´s a hero If you look inside your heart You don´t have to be afraid of what you are There´s an answer If you reach into your soul And the sorrow that you know Will melt away
You can find love If you search within yourself And the emptiness you felt Will disappear And then a hero comes along With the strength to carry on And you cast your fears aside And you know you can survive So when you feel like hope is gone Look inside you and be strong And you´ll finally see the truth That a hero lies in you
And then a hero comes along With the strength to carry on And you cast your fears aside And you know you can survive So when you feel like hope is gone Look inside you and be strong And you´ll finally see the truth That a hero lies in you
Lord knows Dreams are hard to follow But don´t anyone tear them away Hold on There will be tomorrow In time you´ll find the way
It´s a long road When you face the world alone No one reaches out a hand For you to hold
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PROJECT ORGANIZATION
Teacher´s role Follow – up
Resources Stimuli
Warm – up activities Listening to the song
Discovery and observation Comprehension
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Follow – up activities
In class (group/individual)
At home (group)
Exposition
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
AIMED AT: intermediate level GOALS: -vocabulary acquisition: classification of words. - If clauses 1st type. PROJECT ORGANIZATION: Teacher´s role: to follow up, to guide the group. Stimuli: a) Resources: the song and the material of “heroes” of all times. b) Warm up activity: students will be asked what they think of heroes and who or what sort of people are heroes according
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to them. They will be set out to think if heroes have changed during the course of time. c) Listening to the song Discovery and observation: Students will be made to think about the meaning of the song through different questions: - What kind of hero does Mariah Carey describe? - Is she talking about herself or about someone else? - What is the difference between this sort of hero and those we usually call heroes nowadays?
Activity: Students will use the dictionaries to search for the words hero, model, idol and leader. They will be asked to give examples of each word.
Follow – up activities: - In class: 1) Each student will be given pictures of people they know (popular and notorious). They will tell the rest of the class group what he/she thinks of the person in the picture he/she has. Can these persons be considered heroes?
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2) Multiple choice activity: students will be given the lyrics of the song. In some parts they will have to choose between two words. Example:
And then a hero comes along ago With the faith to carry on strength And you take your fears aside cast And you know you can survive I So when you feel like fear is gone hope Look inside you and be weak strong And you´ll finally see the truth That the hero lies in you.
- To do at home: in small groups, students will choose among different activities: change the lyrics of the song, posters, video clip or dramatization, description of a hero. Exposition: students will show and explain to the rest of the class what they have done at home.
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