Teaching English through Comics

Teaching English through Comics contains a series of activities based on comic strips and cartoons. These activities may be used in class for various purposes, adding humor to your lessons and creating an environment that is conducive to learning. All the activities can be used as they are or may serve as springboard to your new ideas. Here you will find the lesson plans, the presentations, worksheets and answer keys. Hope you have as much fun as your students!

Food vocabulary - beginners

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This activity combines vocabulary practice and an oral task in a fun way. PRESENTATION
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Talking about wishes

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As you probably have noticed, I'm really into activities that create opportunities for students to speak. This one is another example ho...
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Bedtime Stories

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This is an activity for conversation time in class. 1. Students dicuss the questions in small groups. 2. Individual work: Students complet...
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Blank Balloons

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This activity requires student collaboration and creativity. 1. Make enough copies of the comic strip for your students. 2. Cut it up in f...
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Let's talk about TV programs

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This activity was designed for a conversation class. Students share their opinions about TV programs. This is a topic that suits different a...
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Cloze Exercise

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This is a cloze exercise combined with a speaking task. This is also an example of how you can use the same cartoon (used in a previous post...

Reading Activity - Upper-intermediate

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This reading activity leads to a writing task. It requires students to use different thinking skills so as to organize the story. 1. Make a...

Info-gap Activity

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This activity provides speaking practice. Students ask and answer and talk about their preferences, thus personalizing language. Part 1- Ma...

Contextualizing grammar

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For an effective grammar presentation, we should present language in context. Comic strips and cartoons are great for contextualizing a gram...

Past Modals - Grammar Production

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- Read the strip and talk to your partner. - Make sentences using must have , could have or should have. TO BE COPIED

Pronouns

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This is an activity for beginners. Students fill in the blanks with appropriate pronouns and then do an oral activity. PRESENTATION WORK...

Jigsaw Reading

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This is a reading activity that also promotes language awareness. Students have to analyse the language so as to be able to organize the fra...

Writing

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This is an activity that integrates writing and speaking. It's appropriate for beginners. PRESENTATION Information about Peanuts can...
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Past Tense Practice

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Complete the lines in the strip using the past tense of the verbs given: say - be - chase - live - eat ANSWER KEY WORKSHEET 
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Sam Camilo
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
I work at Ibeu, Rio de Janeiro. As an Academic Coordinator, my responsibilities include assessment as well as teacher training and development. I've always enjoyed reading comics since I was a teenager. In fact, comics books were the first ones I tried reading when I started studying English. Because of my addiction to comics, I began using them in class. Comics may be used to teach grammar and vocabulary, to trigger conversation, to teach writing, or anything else a teacher wants. Besides that, using comics creates a cheerful learning environment and add variety to your lessons. For these reasons I decided to create this blog to share some activities with English teachers. If you have comments or suggestions, feel free to send them.
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