Your students MUST love your comic

Comic strips are simple, easy ways to demonstrate language features, with dialogs and thoughts shown as texts. Students are directly attracted by animated characters and funny stories in those strips. In order to get an idea of what the story is about, students should focus on each sentence and try to understand the overall meaning. Therefore, teachers can use comic strips to teach grammar, since grammar should be taught with form, meaning and use. From this perspective, in a well developed comic strips, students will notice how a language structure is constructed, what semantic contribution is makes whenever it is used, when it is used, and why it is used in this way. Using the online tool, Strip Generator, I created the comic strips, Which beauty, to demonstrate how to use it to teach grammar.

In this dialog, students will see how English article is used in a context. They will notice there are different articles, like a (beauty), the (one), zero article in front of two beauties, added in front of the reference. By reading the dialog, students will get a better understanding of this grammar feature.