Cartoons
Cartoons can be used in language classes for students of various levels. They tell stories through images and can provoke thought on current events. Cartoons provide examples of vocabulary and depict how people behave in different cultures. Both positive and negative features of cartoons should be considered when using them for language teaching. Positives include appealing to students and showing culture and language, while negatives are a lack of visual clues and unusual or exaggerated speech. Cartoons can be used for themes, language practice, and activities like cloze exercises, reading transcripts, role-plays, and comprehension questions. One activity described has students replacing dialog in a cartoon with new creative and funny dialog to improve speaking and writing skills.
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- 1. CartoonsMelissa García ………….Arturo Alan González PadillaMónicaCardoza
- 2. Cartoons Can:Be used from beginner level to advanced level for a variety of language and discussion activities.Tell a complex story in a few imagesProvide comment and provoke thought on events and issues in the newsGive an example of vocabulary related to current trends and fadsProvide easily identifiable characters to form the basis for sketchesShow culture in action with the ways that men or women are behaving and are expected to behaveComment on and illustrate a whole range of issues like racism, teenage relationships, sexism, ageism, family relationships.
- 3. Positive Features Appeal to the child in usStory LineLanguageCulture
- 4. Negative Features No clues from visual articulation The use of children’s or unusual voice Exaggerated Speech Features
- 5. How to use a cartoon ThemeThe most obvious reason for using a cartoon in class is our desire to useits content to teach about a topic. Good cartoons tell a story and have a moral or lesson to teachLanguageDespite silent viewing for prediction or dialogue activities, we usually use a video for its language to provide students with listening input. Some cartoons contain mostly action and have very little dialogue. Others contain too many strange voices combined with sound effects that further obscure clarity.
- 6. Activities Cloze Reading a Transcript Performing a Mini-play Comprehension Questions
- 7. Activity The purpose of the following activity is to improve the speaking and writing skills of the students. The students are going to receive a comic cartoon and then they´ll erase the dialogues and create new ones; the new dialogues have to be creative and funny.