Teaching Material

[David C]

I found some good teaching material.

http://www.comics.com/comics/ferdnand/

These Ferd'nand cartoons really keep the students talking. They enjoy it and they get used to using the structures pretty fast.

I've had good luck with this book too.

The Far Side Gallery (Paperback)

[Jamie (K)]

I often use the Nancy comics from comics.com in my classes, because some of the older ones were off-beat and visual. I make the students narrate one small comic strip in writing, so that someone who couldn't see the strip would be able to visualize it. The foreign students have a lot of trouble dredging up the vocabulary they need to describe the situations. The American students have been taught in school to be "expressive", so they insert all kinds of things and events that aren't even there, so for them it becomes an exercise in restraint and in writing the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

[David C]

This book is pretty good for getting people to talk.

Not everybody likes it but some people love it.

A lot of my students also like Dilbert comics.