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teacher‟s notes & key

Poziom: Średnio-zaawansowany i wyższy średnio-zaawansowany (B1-B2)

Lead-in activities

The goal here is to get the students to think back to when they were younger with some nostalgia. You could ask them
to think about children‟s television programmes (Dobranocka etc.) and see what they come up with, or alternatively
give them some clues. Another alternative is to give each student one title, plus three „banned‟ words. They then have
to make their partner say the title by describing it without using the „banned‟ words.

First reading

Get them to brainstorm what they remember about the cartoon before reading. The actual reading should be as fast
as possible so (a) the students genuinely read for gist and (b) they don‟t get all the answers to the next task.
1. A Hoj!
2. The Forest Bandit

3. “I‟ll show you!”
4. Busy as a...

5. Balum Balum!
6. Brotherly Love

Second reading

Title

Country

Date

Characters

Rumcajs

Czechoslovakia

1967

(starosta) Humpal

Bolek and Lolek

Poland

1963

Tola

Maja the Bee

Germany/Japan

1912 / 1975

Tekla

The Little Mole

Czechoslovakia

1957

The Hedgehog

The Line

Italy

1972

-

The Wolf and the Hare

The Soviet Union

1969

Hippopotamus

Vocabulary 1 & 2

Paragraph 1 delight,

retired

Paragraph 6 to accompany

Paragraph 3 wild,

bushy,
gruff

Paragraph 7 still going strong

Vocabulary 2

1 - f
2 - a

3 - j
4 - c

5 - g
6 - b

7 - d
8 - i

9 - e
10- h

Writing

This should be a fun and creative activity so encourage them to discuss their ideas before they start writing. One
effective way to do this would be to ask the students to prepare a proposal in the form of a poster, including drawings
of the characters, and then make a presentation to the class. They could then vote on the best.

Extension

Each cartoon has its own page in the Polish version of Wikipedia <

http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strona_glowna

>

and you could print out these pages for some translation work. It would then be possible to add pages, or edit existing
pages in the English version of Wikipedia <

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

>.