Keep the students inspired by the Torch relay with these ‘five-minute fillers’.
Three exciting five-minute fillers!
- The Torch Relay begins at Land’s End on 18 May 2012 and ends at the Olympic Stadium on 27 July. Ask the students to plot 10 days of the 70-day route that would include a visit within 10 miles of their home.
- Ask the students to think about their own personal heroes, for example, people in their community who have inspired them in some way. Ask for volunteers to give a 30-second nomination speech in which they give reasons why their nominee should be considered as a Torchbearer.
- Read about the history of the Olympic Torch Relay and then play this quick true/false quiz:
- During the ancient Games, a sacred flame burned continually on the altar of the goddess, Juno. (False – the goddess was called Hera.)
- After a short relay around Greece, the Flame is handed over to the new Host City at another ceremony in the Panathenaiko stadium in Athens. (True.)
- The last Torchbearer lights a cauldron back at the Temple of Hera. (False – the Cauldron is lit at the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony in the Olympic Stadium.)
