Comic Strips (Revision)

华师大松江实验中学

执教老师：钱平

2009.12

A. vary( 变化 ) B. plot( 情节 ) C. text( 文字 ) D. personalities ( 性格 ) E. comes across( 容易理解 )

1.The twin sisters don’t get along well because their characters are different.

2.Your report is understood very well. Everyone likes it.

3.The prices of the mobile phones differ a lot.

4.The music in the film was good, but the story-line was silly.

5.There is some printed words in the note.

D

E

A

B

C

speakspeakerspeech

Mr. Jackson was a very good ________. He used to ________ at the school meeting. His ________ was very popular.

v.n.n.

the person who speaks

what a speaker says

speaker speak

speech

inventinventorinvention

v.n.n.

(the person)(the thing)

Thomas Edison was a very great________ and ________ thousands of things. The light bulb was one of his _________.

inventor invented

inventions

exciting excited excitement

adj. adj. n.(sth.) (sb.)

These _________ people were very happy at the _________ party. As the end of the party, the crowd’s ___________ increased( 增加 ).

excited

exciting

excitement

boring bored interesting interested

The film was so _______ that I almost slept in the cinema.

My cousin is so __________ in music.

You won’t feel ________ in my class.

He has many _________ ideas to make us laugh.

boring

interested

bored

interesting

_______ is the spice of life. (various/variety)

What are your _________ on this problem? (think/thoughts)

The city comes to ____ at night. (live/life)

Sound ________ is very important in this film. (affects/effects)

Every autumn, many travelers come to see the beautiful _________ of the mountains. (scene/scenery)

Variety

thoughts

scenery

life

effects

adj. n.

v. n.

n.

n.v.

n.

v. n.

a place where something happens

the beauty of the nature

What is the comic strip mainly about?

A.The fox asked the crow for a piece of meat.

B.The crow gave a piece of meat to the fox.

C.The fox stole a piece of meat from the crow.

D.The fox got a piece of meat by a trick.

What is the first thing to do when creating a comic strip?The first thing is to __________ when creating a comic strip.

think of a plot

plot

f____ or d______with an e_____ f_____

move f____full of a____

something n___ in each picture

unny

ramaticxciting inish

ction

ast

ew

What do the characters need?

They need strong __________. stupid

helpful

clever

sly( 狡猾的 )

brave

personalities

How do you understand the personalities very well?

By __________________. looking at the pictures

1.The first thing to create a comic strip is to think of characters.

2. It should be a dramatic story with an exciting end.

3.The story needs to move slowly and something funny must happen in each picture.

4.The characters ‘ personalities will come across just by looking at them.

5.The strip was drawn with a special pencil.

Fa plot

F

F

T

Tnew

fast

dip pen

What do we use to draw the strip?

A _____ pen with ______________.

dipa special nib

b______

( 绘画技巧 )

ubbles

s_______cenery

________ without _______

______ with ______frames borders

framesborders

a line of _____

s_____ e______ound ffects

text

various f_____ s_____.rame izes

Please find the techniques used in your comic books.

e.g. In our comic book, it uses _________, _________, …

The techniques

bubbles

scenery

frames without borders

a line of text

sound effects

various frame sizes

The functions

for variety

explain the changes of scene or time

for interest

for excitement

for speech and thoughts

make the strip come to life

use … for speech and thoughts

use … for …

Why do we use bubbles?

add … to make … come to lifeadd … to…

Why do we add scenery?

use … to make … more interesting

Why do we use various frame sizes?

use … to…

Why do we use frames without borders?

use … for variety

use … for…

Why do we add a line of text?

add … to explain the changes of…

add … to…

Why do we use sound effects?

use…for excitement

use…for…

We use …for/ to…

We add…for/ to…

Think and write the plot for the end of the story about The Test-tube Affair. (e.g. What happens to Terry and the kidnappers? Does Terry meet his father again?) You can invent you own ending.

What are they full of?