An original cartoon in simple intermediate English

from Linguapress.com

MacBrain and MacBrawn, our friends from Scotland.....  Cartoon 1.

Our heroes live in a small town somewhere near Glasgow, in Scotland. MacBrain teaches maths in a high school, and MacBrawn...  well it's never been quite clear what he does, but he is one of the non-teaching staff in the same high school. The two share a house, and will go on doing so until - one day perhaps - MacBrain finds the lady of his life....






© Moira Spence and Linguapress.com


More (mis)adventures:  Cartoon 2 - A Walk in the hills . Cartoon 3 - The Sales.  Cartoon 4 - Wishful thinking  Cartoon 5 - The motorbike - Cartoon 6 : Another dinner date,  Cartoon 7 - African safari?,  Cartoon 8 - A new job , Cartoon 9 - A new sport   ... and more to come.....

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Teachers' notes

Using story cartoons in class.

Cartoons like this make excellent supports for creative language work.
The most simple classroom activity is to have students describe the story in their own words; this can be done either as an individual task, as group work, or as oral work in class.
Alternatively, the story can be told from the point of view of one of the characters.


Fill in the missing words.
Here's a copy of the cartoon with some key words missing. Have students replace the missing words. You may like to help them in some cases, by adding or announcing the first or last letter of a missing text.