Fact or fiction?
A recent survey has revealed that young people think that some fictional characters are real people and that some real people are fictional characters.
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What to do 1. Elicit the names of some of the heroes from recent films. Write the names on the board and ask students if they are real people or fictional characters. Are the students sure? 2. Give students copies of the teaching material and focus on the photograph at the top of the page. Does anyone know the name of the object on the wall? (Answer: It's a plaque.) What is the plaque there for? (Answer: To inform people that Sherlock Holmes lived in the house.) Ask the students if Sherlock Holmes was a real person or a fictional character. Are they sure? 3. Ask the students to fold the page over to hide the text at the bottom of the page. Now tell them to look at the list of names on the page and to go through the list and write "RP" (real person) beside the names of people they think really existed and "FC" (fictional character) beside the ones who never really existed. 4. Students do the activity. When they have finished, tell them to check some of the answers by unfolding the paper and reading the text at the bottom of the page. When they have done this, check through the answers together. How many did they get right? How did their answers compare with the U.K. survey? 5. Finally, ask students to give you examples of fictional
characters in their own country that some people believe are real,
and real characters that some people believe are fictional. Answers RP |
