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Activity 3
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                            Desperate Repetition.                                    • Read the instructions and
                                                                                       go through the options
                            •  Reread the comic strip if necessary.
                                                                                       with students.
                        Strategies to     How to speak    Contrasting two very
                        establish a    to someone   different personalities,    How to respond to   • Discuss and analyze each
                      conversation with    suffering from   an introvert and    any question.
                        a stranger.   depression.   an extrovert.                      option with students to
                                                                                       determine which purpose
                                                                                       best suits the comic strip.
                            •  Discuss other topics that might appear in comics and write them
                              in your notebook.                                      • Focus the conversation on
                                                                        Remember
                          4.  Observe the following components and circle the ones that   the fact that both characters
                            appear in comics. Look at the example.     A comic strip is
                                                                       a sequence of   are opposites: one likes
                                                                       illustrations that
                                                                                       to chat with everybody
                                                                       tells a story, with or
                                                                      without text.
                                                                                       and the other does not.
                                                                                       Ask students how the title
                                                                                       of the comic reflects on
                                                                                       the character’s answer and
                                                                                       projects how the character
                                                                                       feels regarding the situation.
                                                                                     • Talk to students about other
                                                                                       topics that might appear
                         KAPOW                                                       • Tell them to reflect on what
                                                                                       regularly in comics.
                         KAPOW
                                                                                       they talked about at the
                                                                                       beginning of the unit and
                                                                                       check the Remember
                                                                                       section.

                                                                                     Activity4
                                                                                     • Ask students about graphic
                                                                                       components and where they
                                                                                       can find each one of
                                                               Studentʼs Book  /  Practice 8  129  the options.
               • Focus on the graphic components that appear in comics and elicit what they are for. Their answers may
                 vary, but they should include statements such as “Panels or boxes chronologically organize the story”,
                 “Illustrations convey most of the story, as comics do not have a lot of text”, “Sound effects enrich the story”,
                 “Speech bubbles include the dialogues of what characters are saying or thinking”.



























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