A. Reading – Guevara

1. In pairs, do the quiz. Choose a, b or c.

WWHATHAT DODO YOUYOU KNOWKNOW ABOUTABOUT … …

1. He was born in ...

a Cuba b Colombia c Argentina

2. His first name was ...

a Alejandro b Ernesto c Eduardo

3. At university he studied ...

a law b politics c medicine

4. He helped ... in the Cuban Revolution.

a Fidel Castro b Eva Perón c Emiliano Zapata

5. He was captured and shot in ...

a Chile b Bolivia c Venezuela

6. When he died he was in his late ...

a twenties b thirties c forties

7. He died in ...

a 1960 b 1967 c 1973

2. Look at the photos and cover the text. Guess what

the connection is between each of the things,

people, or places and Che Guevara

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Aleidita Alberto Korda

a Norton 500cc motorbike

3. Now read text A-E and check.

4. Cov

e r the

texts. Complete

the sentences

with who, whose,

which or where.

1. The film,

_____________

theme song won an Oscar, is based on the motorbike journey _____________ Che made with

Alberto across South America.

2. It was the poverty _____________ he saw on this trip _____________ made him decide that

revolution was the only answer to South America’s problems.

3. Gael García Bernal is the actor _____________ playd Che.

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Gael García Bernal Rosario

A This is the motorbike that was used in the film The

Motorcycle Diaries. It is a 1939 Norton 500cc, which is

the same model as the motorbike that belonged to Che’s

friend Alberto. The film, whose theme song won an

Oscar, is based on the motorbike journey Che made with

Alberto across South America. Che was from a rich family

in Argentina and it was the poverty he saw on this trip

that made him decide that revolution was the only answer

to South America’s problems.

B Gael García Bernal is the actor who

played Che in the film The Motorcycle

Diaries. He is from Guadalajara in Mexico,

and has also starred in And your mother too

and Pedro Almodovar’s Bad Education.

C Rosario is the town in Argentina where Ernesto ‘Che’

Guevara was born on 14th May 1928. He was the first of

five children, and his parents, Ernesto and Celia, were

political radicals. From the age of two the young Che

suffered from asthma, but his father told him that learning

to live with his illness would make him a stronger person.

D Alberto Korda was the photographer whose photo now appears on T-

shirts and posters all over the world. The photo, which was taken in

1960, is probably one of the best-known photos in the world – but Korda

never received a penny in royalties. However, five years ago he took the

people who had made money from the photo to court, and won £30,000,

which he gave to the Cuban health service.

E Aleidita, daughter of Che and his second wife Aleida, was

his favourite child. She says that she doesn’t think that Che

would mind that his photo has been so commercialized. ‘Look

at the people who wear Che T-shirts,’ she says. ‘They tend to

be people who don’t conform, who are wondering if they can

be better human beings. My father would have liked that.’

4. Rosario is the town in Argentina _____________ Ernest ‘Che’ Guevara was born.

5. The photo, _____________ was taken in 1960, is probably one of the best-known photos in the

world.

6. The people _____________ wear Che T-shirts tend to be people _____________ don’t

conform.

B. Listening – Heroes and Icons

1. Listen to a competition on a radio programme. With a partner, try to write down the

eight heroes and icons.

1. _____________________________

2. _____________________________

3. _____________________________

4. _____________________________

5. _____________________________

6. _____________________________

7. _____________________________

8. _____________________________

C. Reading – Heroes and icons of our time

1. In pairs, look at the photos and match them with the

names below. Do you know what they are famous for?

Aung San Suu-Kyi

Bono

Thierry Henry

Bernard Kouchner

Queen Rania of Jordan

2.

Now read the article and complete it with the five names.

Heroes and icons of our timeTime magazine has chosen a list of people called the Time 100. These are people who, the

magazine believes, have an enormous impact on today’s world and who inspire millions of people.

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The category Heroes and Icons includes a whole variety of people from a queen to a footballer,

from politicians to a multi-millionaire rock star.

_________________________, one of the world’s greatest footballers, has used his hero status

on the pitch to fight racism in football. After he saw black players from the England team being

insulted by spectators in an international match, he started the campaign ‘Stand up, Speak out’. He

has raised nearly $16 million for anti-racism groups from the sales of black and white bracelets.

‘You probably can’t change the racists,’ he says, ‘but you can make the silent majority stand up

and speak out against them. That way we will make them feel less comfortable. In a few years’

time I want to be able to watch a football match and not hear a single racist insult.’

_________________________ is helping her husband to ‘try to reconcile tradition with modernity’

in their country. But outside her country, along with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and

others, she is working to try to make sure that all children everywhere get vaccinated. As she

reminds us, there are more than 30 million children a year who get no vaccinations during their first

year of life, so up to 10% of them will die.

_________________________, one of the world’s biggest rock stars, is also Africa’s biggest

defender. When he and his wife Ali first went to Africa, they worked in a refugee camp for a month.

On the day they were leaving, a man approached him carrying a baby. ‘This is my son,’ the man

said. ‘Please take him with you when you leave. If you do, he will live. Otherwise he will die.’ He

couldn’t take the child, but since then he has been working tirelessly to raise money to free Africa

from hunger and poverty.

_________________________ is the moral leader of Burma. She has been under house arrest

since 1989 for opposing the military rulers and fighting for human rights. U2 wrote the song ‘Walk

On’ to honour this amazing woman, who put her country before everything, including her family.

She had to make an unbearable choice: either to be with her husband and sons in England but

never be allowed back to Burma, or to stay in Burma, but not to see her sons grow up and not to

be with her husband when he died. She stayed, and to this day continues to fight.

_________________________ first came to the public eye when he helped to save many of the

boat people who escaped Vietnam. He carried sacks of rice himself, even though he was a French

government minister, in ‘Operation Restore Hope’ in Somalia. Nelson Mandela once said to him,

‘Thank you for helping in matters which aren’t your problem.’ He co-founded ‘Médecins sans

Frontières’ (Doctors without borders), which was awarded the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize, and later

Médecins du Monde.

3. Read the article again and answer the questions.

Who was asked for some help which he/she couldn’t give?

Who is trying to fight disease? How?

Who had to choose between his/her job and family? What did he/she choose?

Who used to be a politician? Why was he/she unusual?

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Who used their celebrity status to raise money? What are they trying to change?

4. Read the article again. Find the nouns from these verbs and adjectives.

found (vb) _______foundation___________

modern (adj) ___________________________

hungry (adj) ___________________________

poor (adj) ___________________________

choose (vb) ___________________________

operate (vb) ___________________________

sell (vb) ___________________________

5. In pairs, look at the photos and say why these people are heroes.

D. Vocabulary – What people do

1. Add an ending and put the words in the correct column.

act compose conduct cycle design direct football guitar

invent lead music paint photograph politics physics

present science sculpt violin

-er -or -ian -ist

leader actor politician physicist

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E. Speaking

1. Think of a person you admire (alive or dead) for three of the categories below.

2. In groups, talk about your people. Explain who they are, what they have done, and

why you admire them.

F. Song – Holding out for a hero.

1. Listen to the song and fill the gaps with the missing adjectives (one of them is a

comparative and one is a superlative).

Where have all the 1 g_______________ men gone

And where are all the gods?

Where's the street-wise Hercules

To fight the rising odds?

Isn't there a 2 w_______________ knight upon a fiery

steed?3 L_______________ at night I toss and turn and dream of

what I need

I need a hero

I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night

He's gotta be 4 s_______________ and he's gotta be 5

f_______________

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Sport Music / Art Film / TV

Historical Other

Song facts

Holding out for a hero was written for

Bonnie Tyler in 1982 by Jim

Steinman and Dean Pitchford.

Steinman also wrote all of Meat

Loaf’s hits as well as Total eclips of

the heart for Tyler. A version by

Jennifer Saunders was the theme

song to the 2004 film Shrek 2.

And he's gotta be 6 f_______________ from the fight

I need a hero

I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light

He's gotta be 7 s_______________ and it's gotta be 8

s_______________

And he's gotta be 9 l_______________ than life(9) L_______________ than life

Somewhere after midnight

In my 10 w_______________ fantasy

Somewhere just beyond my reach

There's someone reaching back for me

Racing on the thunder end rising with the heat

It's gonna take a superman to sweep me off my feet

I need a hero, etc.

Up where the mountains meet the heavens above

Out where the lightning splits the sea

I would swear that there's someone somewhere watching

me

Through the wind end the chill and the rain

And the storm and the flood

I can feel his approach like the fire in my blood

I need a hero, etc.

2. Read the lyrics with the glossary. Match the underlined words to their definitions.

1. ___________________ very bad weather with heavy rain, etc.

2. ___________________ air that is moving fast.

3. ___________________ the loud noise that you hear during a storm.

4. ___________________ a bright flash of light that appears in the sky during a storm.

5. ___________________ a large amount of water (from a river, the sea, or heavy rain).

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Glossary

streetwise = a person who can look after

himself

rising odds = the opposition, people who

are against us

fiery steed = a wild horse

toss and turn = move, in bed

I’m holding otu for = I’m waiting for

beyond my reach = too far away for me

to touch

reaching back for me = trying to take my

hand

it’s gonna take a Superman = he’ll have

to be a Superman

to sweep me off my feet = for me to fall

in love with him

chill = cold

his approach = he’s coming nearer

G. Film Bank – Icons

1. Discuss.

1. What do you know about the people in the pictures?

2. How did they become famous?

3. Why are they/ have they been so influential?

4. Why are they regarded as ‘icons’? Do you know other ‘icons’ of the twentieth century?

2. Match the words/phrases in A to the definitions in B.

A B

1. crippled

2. self portrait

3. bus boycott

4. protest

5. segregation

6. civil rights

7. foster home

a. the dividing of people (because of their colour)

b. a place where children live, with a new family because of

problems with their real family

c. when a big, organised group of people refuse to use something

(the buses)

d. political and social freedom for everyone

e. speak/act publicly against injustice

f. a picture of the artist, by the artist

g. physically damaged, permanently

3. You are going to watch a film about three other famous ‘icons’ – Frida Kahlo, Rosa

Parks and Marilyn Monroe. Which of the words / phrases above do you associate

with each woman?

4. Mark these sentences true (T) or false (F).

1. Frida Kahlo is the most famous woman artist of the twentieth century.

2. She had a terrible accident when she was a teenager.

3. She married Trotsky.

4. Rosa Parks became famous because she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man.

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5. In her home town, African Americans refused to use the buses.

6. Thirteen years later, segregation on buses was banned.

7. Marilyn Monroe’s real name was Norma Jeane Davies.

8. Monroe was married to a famous sportsman and a famous writer.

9. She died at the age of forty-six.

5. Watch the film and check your answers.

6. Discuss.

1. Did you like the film? Why/Why not?

2. In what different ways did these women suffer?

3. Think of one other woman who is admired by millions of people. Explain why you chose her.

What does she have in common with Frida Kahlo, Rosa Parks and Marilyn Monroe? Did she

have to suffer? How will she be remembered in the future?

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