Unit 3: Comics and Co

This unit is about comics and animation films. Pupils read about some well-known characters, get a scare from the story of Coraline and meet a young man who fell in love with two girls at the same time. Pupils will be able to see behind the scenes of a film set where a movie with animated puppets was produced.

Pupils ...

  • get to know about some comic book heroes and heroines
  • read a scary comic story and work with dialogues
  • find out how an animation film with puppets was made
  • write and act out some dialogues

They revise and learn the following language features:

  • the verb "look" used with adjectives
  • adverbs of manner such as "gently"
  • the use of "whose" as a relative pronoun and as a question word
  • ** making guesses about past events with "must/might have done"

Task A, Step 7

Product Stories, Step 3

Task B, Step 9