This year I´m teaching English to Photography and Illustration students, which is really convenient for using works of art to elicit new vocabulary , start a debate or just analyse art.
One of the activities I put into practice was analysing comic strips from Quino, Mafalda creator. It was used to elicit new vocabulary related to drawing techniques and materials used.
We start the lesson by showing one of the strips Quino created to make the students share what they know about him and his character.
We can analyse the materials he used, and thus talk about other materials that can be used when drawing.
They have to find images for other materials and share them on the TEAMS group.
The next step is to read some about Quino and Mafalda and watch a video where Quino talks about his art.
On September 30,
88-year-old award winning Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón passed away. He is better known as Quino, the creator of
the famous comic strip character Mafalda—the
revolutionary, feminist, environmentalist and humanist girl who conquered the
hearts of several generations.
Quino's death occurs one
day after the 56th anniversary of Mafalda's first publication. The news immediately
reached all corners of the world and inspired heartfelt tributes from countless
media outlets, artists and public figures.
The Mafalda strip became
one of the best known Spanish-language cartoons and was translated into
more than 30 languages,
including the native language Guaraní. Its
messages on politics, society, the environment
and feminism are universal, and still relevant in present times.
In her youthful innocence, Mafalda,
with her subtle humor, said out loud what many preferred to keep quie. She was
highly controversial for her time, she managed to outwit the censorship of the
Argentine dictatorship, although she was banned by the dictator Augusto
Pinochet in Chile.
The characters that accompanied Mafalda grew to
include friends, a younger brother and a
turtle named Bureaucracy, a nod to the slow-moving
government offices that Argentines knew all too well. In one strip, Mafalda tells
her mother she will play government with her friends. “Don’t cause trouble,”
her mother says. “Don’t worry,” Mafalda replies.
“We are going to do absolutely nothing.”
In addition to print media (cartoons, magazines
and books), Mafalda and her friends starred in their own television series. In just nine
years (between 1964 and 1973), she conquered the entire world and became a “universal
symbol of rebellion and faith in a better world”.
Although he stopped drawing “Mafalda,” new generations continued to fall in
love with the irreverent girl who hated soup and loved the Beatles, as
compilation books became mainstays in family libraries.
Following the news of Quino's death, social
media was flooded with his comics.
After reading and listening about them, the students have to, in pairs, agree on a summary of the information they obtained from the video and the reading.
Once they know a bit more about Quino and Mafalda, they have to browse the internet, or use one of Mafalda´s books, and select one of Mafalda´s strips.
They have to, individually, describe the strip, what they can see, what is happening and what they understand. They can also describe what materials are used and what aspects of life it represents. It can help practice different tenses in accordance with the level of each student.
They have to use Flipgrid to record the analysis of the strip they have chosen.
This activity combines listening, reading, writing and speaking. It provoques critical thinkingand with luck an exchange of opinions about the world .
*Surf the pages associated to the link provided by Fátima for more resources about Mafalda and English:
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