Step 1 - Speaking
Speaking
Answer these questions.
First, write down the acts which you consider to be heroic individually.
Then compare your answers to your partner's.
- What do you consider to be heroic acts?
- rescuing a cat from a tree.
- giving someone CPR (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation).
- calling the police/fire service or ambulance.
- helping an old person who fell over in a shopping mall.
- returning a lost dog to its owner.
- (your own ideas.) ..........
- Some people think that when a child performs a ‘heroic’ act, it is more ‘special’.
Why might people think that? Give three reasons.
- What defines a hero for you?
- Who is an example of a local hero to you?