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Students name: _________________________________________ Workshop N.: 1Teachers name: Paola Caicedo Course: TenthSubject: English Section: ________Theme: Superheroes. Vocabulary, scanning, skimming and punctuation.Goal Index: I identify specific information from different sources. I express opinions and ideas

about social and familiar context. I find specific and predictable information ontexts that describe actual topics.

SUPERHEROES

1. Fill in the gaps while listening Stan Lees interview.

a. I was born in __________________.

b. .and I _______ an imaginary ________in my sight and Id been _________ around hoping to see a

________ picking on a little girl so I ________ defend her.

c. Then they let me ________ some _______, they ______ I could write a _______ _______.

d. At some ________ they left and I _______ the only guy in the department to _______.

e. I began to ____________ that our books had _____ of influence on the readers and I kinda ______ that

seriously I felt: If these people are _________ my _______ and the words of the others _________

working for marvel , I felt we _______ be careful we gotta make sure were not giving them the ______

messages.

f. For me the most important mantra in the world is :

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2. Choose the correct words to fill in the gaps.

ORIGIN

Robert Bruce Banner was born to atomic scientist Dr. Brian Banner and his wife, Rebecca. Although deeply loved by

his mother, Bruces father 1._________ a deep jealousy and 2._______ for him. Brian was also convinced that his

work in atomic science had 3.________ his genetic structure, and he feared that Bruce was to grow up a genetic freak,

when actually, Bruce was just a very gifted and intelligent child. As years 4._______, Bruce and Rebecca were

subjected to Brians drunken rages and abuse, until she was killed by Brian while 5._________ to escape. This left

Bruce in the care of his aunt, Mrs. Drake, and he grew up as a social outcast due to the trauma of 6._________ his

mothers death and abuse from his father.

After 7._______ high school, Bruce began studying nuclear physics at Desert State University and later at the

California Institute of Technology. He 8._______ employment with the military at Desert Base, New Mexico under the

command of General Thunderbolt Ross, who was overseeing the test of Banners newly-created Gamma Bomb. It

was here that he met Rosss daughter, Betty and the two began a mutual attraction. On the day of the bombs

scheduled detonation, Banner ran 9._____ the testing area in hopes of rescuing a young teenager named Rick Jones,

who had snuck 10._______on a dare. Rather than delay the countdown as instructed, Banners assistant Igor Starsky,

(in reality, a secret agent named Igor Drenkov) allowed the countdown to continue, resulting in Banner being

11.______ in the Gamma Bomb explosion and exposed to the radiation. Banner and Jones were taken back to Desert

Base and isolated in a cell until sundown, where Banner transformed into a gray, monstrous and lumbering brute

dubbed the Hulk by military personnel.

CreationCreationCreationCreation

The character of the Hulk was created by artist Jack Kirby and writer Stan Lee and first appeared in The Incredible

Hulk #1 (May 1962). When creating the Hulk, Lee and Kirby were 12._______ by the horror/literature

characters Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde. Lee originally intended the Hulk to be colored gray, believing that

"gray would be a heavy, dramatic, somber color, in keeping with the melodramatic mood we wanted to establish."

However, initial copies of the first issue showed that the printers had a difficult time maintaining the gray color, and the

decision was made to change his skin to the more familiar green. Until 1986, any and all reprints featuring the origin

story would depict the Hulk with green skin until writer/artist John Byrne would incorporate the original gray coloring

into canon in The Incredible Hulk #318.

Super Name: Hulk

Real Name: Robert Bruce Banner

Publisher: Marvel

Gender: Male

Character Type: Radiation

1st Appearance: The Incredible Hulk#1

Appears in: 4098 issues

Birthday: 08/01/1970

Died: Age of Apocalypse#4Incredible Hulk #7

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1. a. harbored b. felt c. get

2. a. hate b. hatred c. hateness

3. a. confused b. altered c. mix

4. a. passed b. went c. gone

5. a. wanting b. attempting c. willing

6. a. watching b. looking c. witnessing

7. a. graduate b. graduated c. graduating

8. a. gained b. won c. get

9. a. to b. into c. in

10.a. to b. at c. in

11.a. caught b. involved c. catch

12.a. done b. inspired c. made

3. Match words 1-10 to the definitions a - j

Super Name: Iron Man

Real Name: Anthony Edward Stark

ManPublisher: MarvelGender: MaleCharacter Type: Cyborg1st Appearance: Tales of Suspense #39Appears in: 5513 issues

After being severely 1.injured and 2.kidnapped by terrorists, billionaire industrialist andbrilliant engineer Tony Stark was 3.pressured to create a weapon of mass destruction.

Instead, he created a suit of power armor to escape from captivity. Vowing to protect a

world he helped 4.endanger, Stark became the Invincible Iron Man.

ORIGINORIGINORIGINORIGIN

Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark was born in Long Island, New York, to Howard Anthony Stark and Maria Collins

Carbonell Stark. In his youth, Tony Stark was a 5.precociously intelligent young boy. When Tony was 7 he was sentto a 6.boarding school, and during this experience he found people difficult to 7.relate to. This was when he became

fascinated by machines. By the age of 15 Tony had 8.enrolled in MIT (The Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated at the top of his class at age 19 with double masters in physics and

engineering.

CREATION

Tony Stark made his first appearance in Tales of Suspense #39 in 1963. He was created by Stan Lee, Larry

Lieber, Don Heck, and Jack Kirby. Tony's character was 9.loosely based on the life of the rich and successful playboy

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Howard Hughes. It may be 10.argued that Iron Man 11.symbolized the 12.meritocracy of capitalism. In the 1960's

when Iron Man was created, the threat of Communism from the USSR was huge. Not only did Iron Man fight

communists and people from the Eastern Block, but he sent the message that great things could be 13.achieved

through 14.thrift, risk and hard work, as opposed to Spider-Man's origin story a year previous whereby Peter Parker

15.gained powers from being bitten by a spider.

a. __________ having developed certain abilities at an earlier age than usual.

b. __________ attempt to persuade or coerce into doing something.

c. __________ a school in which the pupils live during term time

d. __________ hold captive typically to obtain a ransom

e. __________ be connected by blood or marriage

f. ___________ put at risk or in danger

g. __________ accomplish by effort, skill or courage

h. __________ government by people selected according to merit

i. ___________ harmed or wounded

j. ___________ exchange conflicting views in a heated way

k. ___________ the quality of being careful and not wasteful with money and other resources

l. ___________ be a symbol of.

m. __________ obtain or secure

n. ___________ relaxed; physically slack

o. ___________ officially register as a member or student

4. Now is your turn

Create your own superheroe. Keep in mind

a. The origin: Name, place of birth, background, status and character type.b. Powers: what kind of powers does he /she have and reason for it.c. What are this superheroe believes?d. How does this superheroe could help our society?