Talk about Cartoons and use them for learn an idiom.

1. Young World CD Vol. 2. Ron Thomas & Jan Stutchbury
Garfield is a popular comic strip.
Cartoons
1. Cartoons are drawings which tell a story.
There are cartoons in newspapers which
tell about the news. Sometimes they are
funny.
Cartoon strips are called comics. They
are in newspapers too. Each day the
characters are drawn to tell a funny story.
The words that the characters say or
think are put into ‘balloons’ above their
heads.
2. The cartoons that we
see on television are
called animated
cartoons or animations.
Lots of pictures are
drawn and then put onto
film. When the film is
screened through a
projector the characters
seem to move.
3. Cartoons have been drawn for hundreds
of years. At first they were in newspapers
so that more people would buy the
papers. The person who draws the
cartoon is called a cartoonist. They use
lines to show how the characters move.
Different lines on the face show how the
characters feel.

2. Literacy Practice Test 2005
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Read CARTOONS and answer these questions.
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What are cartoons?
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Name 2 places where you might find cartoons.
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Comics are drawn to
fill up space.
make you sad.
blow up balloons.
tell a funny story.
Cartoons are funny.
Never
Sometimes
Rarely
Always
Shade one
bubble.

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5 Which word in the text means that the characters seem to move?
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What are balloons used for in cartoons?
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What do you call a person who draws cartoons?
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Cartoonists show how the characters move by
lines.
pencils.
people.
newspapers.
Which word in the text means people or animals in a comic or cartoon?
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What is the name of the comic strip in this text?
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Describe what is happening in this comic strip.
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What is the name of the cartoonist who draws Garfield comic strips?
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