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An original cartoon in simple intermediate English


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

Cartoon 5 - the Motorcycle.

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....


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More adventures:  Cartoon 2 - a Walk in the hills . Cartoon 3 - the Sales.  Cartoon 4 - Wishful thinking  - Cartoon 6 : Another dinner date.   And more to come.....



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.

Language point with this cartoon :   point out the use of modal verbs of possibility, which appear several times, in the affirmative, the negative, and the interrogative.

Blank fill exercise.

Here's a copy of the cartoon with most of the dialogue removed. Invite pupils to put back the missing dialogue, or some other appropriate words.

blank fill version


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Level
: simple intermediate
Theme : Cartoon
Target readers : teenagers, adult learners

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Originally published in Horizon, the low-intermediate level English newsmagazine.


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