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Activity 15

15. Read the following information. • Read the information in the
box and complement it with
Comics tell a story in a succession of boxes called panels that display illustrations and text. Panels session 4 other details regarding the
are the main part of comics, since they organize the action in a sequence. Inside a panel we can find:
» Illustrations: portray the characters and the setting where the comic takes place different parts of comics.
» Speech bubbles: include what the characters are saying, the dialogues • Check comprehension
» Sound effects: represent the sounds to enrich the story. They are also called onomatopoeias and answer any questions
that might arise with some
16. Discuss what you thought about the information you just read.
TRACK 33 examples from comics.
• Listen to the example on the track and read the transcript.
• Ask students to find the
I don’t agree because I’ve seen Yes. It wouldn’t be a comic without Function of panels. Ideas and believs different elements in the
comics without text, they only illustrations, but the text helps the
have illustrations. addressee understand the story. comics they are using in this
practice. Do they all appear?

If there is no text, how are we going With the gestures, the postures, Activity 16
to understand what the characters and the hand movements in the
are thinking or saying? illustrations. • Link this activity to the
previous one.
Then, we can say that the T
Exactly, the sound • Play the track to model the
effects help, as well. information is accurate because the conversation and ask students
Like this one: text supports what is portrayed in rack 33
the illustrations. However, there are to find some examples of
comics without text.
what the interlocutors
17. Read the second part of the comic My Trip to India. are saying.
• Encourage students to
identify other elements in
comics. Can they find
some others that are not
described in the information
box? Can they explain what
All men are People are quite
snake charmers. poor, but they smile they are for?
all the time

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