What’s Your Superpower?

B1 – Intermediate

In the past few years the number of superhero films has seemed like it doubled. You’ve got different movies from Marvel and DC Comics left and right. And people just can’t get enough of them.

Click the link below and listen to the podcast about superhero and superhero films. Feel free to listen more than once and to read the transcript as well.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english/ep-170112

Discussion Questions:

  1. How do you feel about superhero films?
  2. What are some of the superhero films that you think are actually good?
  3. If you could have a superpower, what would it be and why?
  4. Do you think such films are good for children? Are they bad for children?
  5. Did you read comic books when you were a child? Have you heard of manga comic books?
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4 replies on “What’s Your Superpower?”

1.How do you feel about superhero films?
I’m not a superhero films follower, I know some of them because I have seen the trailer which was used to promote it.
2.What are some of the superhero films that you think are actually good?
I don’t have an opinion about superhero films that are actually good, the only film which I have seen was superman and it was a lot of years ago.
3.If you could have a superpower, what would it be and why?
If I could have a superpower it would be healing people with serious illnesses like cancer, sclerosis or something like that
because I can not see people suffer this kind of illness above all when they are my friends.
4.Do you think such films are good for children? Are they bad for children?
I think that these films are good for children because superheroes do good and it is a good teaching for children.
5.Did you read comic books when you were a child? Have you heard of manga comic books?
Yes I read comic books when I was a child they were Mortadelo y Filemon who were two funny detectives and Zipi y Zape who were a couple of naughty twins. Yes I have heard of manga comic books but I have never read any of them.

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Yes I read comic books when I was a child they were Mortadelo y Filemon who were two funny detectives and Zipi y Zape who were a couple of naughty twins.

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How do you feel about superhero films?
Are very extended around the world. I think beacause ourselft we would like to be a little superhero

What are some of the superhero films that you think are actually good?
I prefer ther first films from Supereman beacause was the first film about a superhero that i watched in a cinema when i was younger

If you could have a superpower, what would it be and why?
The capacity to do many things.
I´m not excepcionaly goog or expert, but por example, i´m a good worker, i cook well, i do agriculture task, i repair fornitures, pipes or my car, i paint the house, i can do too builder, i can do the speaker in an event, i can defend me in any sports (footbal, tennis, bike, basket,…)

Do you think such films are good for children? Are they bad for children?
We did grow watching films about superheros, therefore i think it´s not bad to watch. In the end the message is that is important to fight against what is not right.

Did you read comic books when you were a child? Have you heard of manga comic books?
Yes, i read any comics how “El Capitán Trueno” or “Super López”. They was very knows in Spain

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We did grow watching films about superheros, therefore i think it´s not bad to watch. In the end the message is that is important to fight against what is not right.

We did grow up watching films about superheroes. Therefore, I think it´s not bad to watch them. In the end, the message is that it is important to fight against what is not right.

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