COMICS

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COMICS
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• Do you read comics?
• What kinds of comics do you like?
• Whos your favourite comic character?
• What does he or she look like?
• What kind of a person is he/she?

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What kinds of comics do you like?

• Childrens comics?
• Historical action comics?
• Humorous comics?
• Science fiction comics?
• Superhero comics?

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What does he or she look like?

• Human? Cyber figure? Animal feature?
• Oval? Star-shaped? Heart-shaped?
  Triangular?rectangular?
• Bright red? Gold? Silver? Sky-blue?
• Dog? Cat? Mouse? Hamster?

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What kind of a person is he/she?

• Brave? Clever? Cowardly? Evil? Kind-hearted?
• Tough? Caring?
• Strong? Weak?
• Faithful? Wicked?
• Fearless? Gentle?

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What about you?

• Think of a comic character that you like or
  dislike and attempt a description on him/her/it!
• Look at the front page of Unit 1 and get some
  ideas!
• Hw- pg. 2,3

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Lets have a look at what the others say

• http//hkcee-eng.ilongman.com/test/LTE_ITlesson/Am
  erica/index.html
• Have a glance at the information and answer the
  following questions
• Who read comics?
• Why do they read comics?

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So now you know a lot about comics, ready for a
survey in your class?

• What is a survey?
• What is the most important part for a survey?
• Questions
• Interviews
• Then what do we do after the survey?
• Organize information
• Present the information
• What form of presentation will there be?
• Oral presentation? Oral report/
• Written report!
• Article!

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Lets listen to an interview first

• Your book pg. 14
• Part A
• Part B
• What is the language used in interviews?
• Present tense- esp. with the topic on habits!
• - HW Grammar Focus on Present tense

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Conducting a survey about comic-reading
habits(pg. 18)

• Design your survey form!
• Go and ask at least 10 classmates and 10 teachers
  or students from other forms.
• Organise your information and think of how to
  present it in an oral report!

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How to organise your report?

• Purpose of your survey?
• Who have you asked?
• Who? Why? What? How?
• Any afterthoughts? Reflections? Funny things?
  Difficulties?

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How to organise your information?

• Topic
• Purpose
• Who have you asked? How many?
• What did they say?

Question 1 analysis
Question 2 analysis
Question analysis
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How to organise your information?

• After thoughts? What do you want to say?
• Funny things?
• Difficulties?
• Suggestions?

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Format of a report

• To
• From
• Date
• Report on comic-reading habit
• Introduction (Purpose, no. of interviewees,
  procedures of survey)
• Findings (analysis on statistics)
• Conclusion and recommendations

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Language for reporting survey results

• 100
• 98
• 90
• 75
• 50
• 45
• 5
• 0

• None
• Hardly any
• Slightly less than half
• Half
• Three quarters
• Most
• almost all
• all

Look at your book pg. 19
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Lets see how people put a report in a written
way

• Pg.5
• Article on a newspaper or school magazine
• Reasons
• Who?
• Findings
• Details
• HW pg.7
• So now, write your own report!

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Write a letter to your previous English teacher,

• Saying hello
• Telling her/him you have conducted a survey on
  comics
• Telling her your favourite comic character
• Asking her/him which comic character she/he likes
• Closing with a note to keep in contact with
  her/him

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Lets go to Japan and have a look there

• http//hkcee-eng.ilongman.com/test/LTE_ITlesson/co
  mic_japan/index.html
• Who read comics in Japan?
• How popular are comics in Japan?
• What are Japanese comics about?
• Why do people read comics?
• Why do comics sell so well in Japan?

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Comics

• What are the uses of comics?
• What kind of topics do comics have?
• Can you name some popular comics?

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Like to know more about animators?

• Pg.4
• Who? Why?
• History? All? Only famous things?
• Examples
• -skimming-

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Questions(scanning)

• What is manga?
• Where was Miyazaki born?
• How old is Nausicaa?
• In My neighbour Totoro, where do the two Sisters
  live?
• Who carried out the survey mentioned in the
  second article?

Eng4us.com
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Like to know more about animators?

• Pg.4
• Who? Why? (Tense?)
• History? All? Only famous things?( Tense?)
• Examples(Tense?)
• Pg.6

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Time to create our own comic character and comic
strips

• What is comic strip?
• Take a look at pg. 12 ,13
• Then we now create our own comic character pg
  10,
• Then our storyboard

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Think of a story for your character

• Drop some notes here
• Try draw it on pg.17
• Or go to www.dfilm.com and build up your real
  comic animation.

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Project options

• Pg. 20. Browse www.comicsamerica.com
  http//hkcee-eng.ilongman.com/test/LTE_ITlesson/co
  mic_japan/index.html and attempt a 2 minute oral
  presentation.
• Study pg. 15 and write a letter to Mrs Leung,
  telling her you favourite comic character.
• Using all the information, words and phrases you
  have learnt so far, write a letter to your friend
  in Australia, telling her/him about the
  popularity of comics in Hong Kong.

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Organisation tenses for option 1

• Why are you talking to us? purpose
• How popular comics are? general situation
• Who read them? Which group/ age/job read more?
  Why?
• Most popular comics? Examples?
• Tense?
• Present tense!

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Organisation tenses for option 2

• Letter format?
• Formality?
• Say hello? Why are you writing?
• Your comic character? Name? Appearance/ shape?
  Personality? Special abilities? Habits? Likes
  dislikes?
• Why do you like him/her? Any special?
• Ending of the letter? Invite Mrs Leung to
  watch/read the comics?

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Organisation tenses for option 3

• Letter format?
• Formality?
• Say hello? Why are you writing?
• Comics in HK how popular? Who read comics? How
  many? What kind of comics? Why? Most popular
  comics?
• Ending of the letter! Ask about the comics in
  Australia?