Aprendiendo Inglés con comics: Mafalda. Learning English with a comic strip :Mafalda.

         

Complete the blanks  about Mafalda  with the
 Present Simple: 

Mafalda is  a beloved character of an  Argentine
 comic strip of the same name. It _____(to be ) 
the creation of “ Quino “ Joaquín  Lavado .
 Quino created Mafalda to criticize the dictatorship
 and avoid the rigid censorship during  the '60s and '70s.

The main character _____(to be ) MAFALDA ,  an
 Argentine girl around five or six years old who is
 very smart and with strong political views.

She________ (live) with her family : her father

 who__________( work) for an insurance
 company ,her mother, a housewife and  her 
baby brother,Guille.
They__________( have) a pet , a tortoise with the
 name of bureaucracy .

She _____(be ) a fan of The Beatles , and  very 
concerned about war,poverty, and the state of
 humanity and the world, and is  often reading
 the newspaper, listening to the news on her radio,
 or consulting her globe. 

Mafalda  is surrounded by her  friends : 
Felipe , the idealist, Manolito , the shopkeeper’s son
 and always interested in money , Susanita , the 
opposite of Mafalda , Libertad ,who always says 
what she _____(think) .

 Mafalda________ (challenge) people  to think , 
 reexamine their values and stereoptypes ,question 
 their vision of  society and the dictatorship with
the use of irony ,creativity and intelligence.

*Para encontrar respuestas para estos ejercicios ve a :
 "Mafalda , the Argentinian comic " en este mismo blog .

*To find the answers for these exercises go to :
 " Mafalda , the Argentinian comic " in this blog .  

Traduccion del ingles al español del libro 

Ashtanga as taught by Shri Pattahbi Jois de Larry Schultz 

http://traduccionashtanga.blogspot.com.ar/

What do you think these comic strips mean ?

Wouldn’t be beautiful the world if libraries were more important than banks ?


Look out ! irresponsables  working!

" It isn't true that all past time was better . 
What happened was that the ones who were worse they hadn't realised yet "

STOP CENSORSH...
Mafalda : either  it run out of painti...,
 or couldn.. finis... fo.. reaso...that are public domain 

Complete the blanks  of the comic with the Present Simple:

 
A

Mafalda: Hello! You ______(to be )so short! What ________(to be ) your name?
B
Libertad: Libertad (Freedom)
C
Libertad: Did you figure out your stupid conclusion? Everybody figures out their stupid conclusion when they________( meet) me. (her name)

A

Man : Change the world ! Ja ! Things of the youth !

B

When I was young , I also had those ideas , and now see....
D
Mafalda :Let's make some noise , Kids ! It ___________( turn) out that if you don't___________(hurry ) to change the world , afterwards , it' s the world who _________ (change) you !

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A

Mafalda : I ________(have) to do my homework .
  Manolito : I _______(have) to make a delivery for the shop.
  Susanita: I ________(have) to watch my Tv programme. 
B
Mafalda :So we have only time to play nuclear war .
Right?
Manolito y Susanita : Yes. 
BOOMMMMM!!!!
C
Mafalda : This modern life _______(make) games shorter .....

A
Felipe: That we live  upside down? Where did you get that stupid idea?
Mafalda: You just have to look at a terrestrial sphere. 
B
The ones living on the north hemisphere ________(live) heads up and we live upside down.
C
Felipe: That´s absurd !
Mafalda: No! Don´t you see that the developed countries are the ones that live heads up?
D
Felipe: And what ______ that ______(show)?
Mafalda: That, because we _________(live) upside down, ideas  fall out from our heads.

A

Felipe : If it _____(to be )true that UFOS ________

(come )from a more developed world more advanced 

than this one

B

So no one could say that we _______(live) in an

 underdeveloped world !

C

Because all this planet is underdeveloped !

D

Thank you for saving our international prestige !

 A

Libertad  : In my home always the same story : every once in a while the washer _________(break down )

B 

Libertad : The man ________(come), fix it , my mum says How awful , every time you charge me more and the other ______(answer) What do you expect , madam , how things are going on and the two end  talking about how awful is everything 

C 

Libertad : The issue is that every time I_______( put on) clean clothes I __________(feel )like I ' m around all dressed of crisis 

A
Mafalda :Would you lend me a part of the newspaper ?
Dad : Take it. 
Mafalda : Thank you . 
B
The quote of the day :
The more I _______(know ) humans the more I ________(love) my dog by Diogenes .
C
Mafalda :But ...What kind of journalism ___(to be) this?
Where ______(to be ) the opinion of the dog ????

*Para encontrar respuestas para estos ejercicios ve a :
 "Mafalda , the Argentinian comic " en este mismo blog .

*To find the answers for these exercises go to :
 " Mafalda , the Argentinian comic " in this blog . 

Complete the blanks with the  ING forms :
A
Mum : Now, that you _____________(help) me , pass the duster to the globe .
B
Mafalda : Do I clean all the countries or only the ones that have bad government ?


A
Mum  : I _________ (Go )to the dry cleaner's , Mafalda , take care of your little brother that I_________(come) right away . 
Mafalda : Ok. 
B

Guille :Uuaaa
Mafalda :Ehh, well ,take it .
C
Mafalda :If the people  knew to use the lungs like
 you , the dictators  would have it hard !!!!!

*Para encontrar respuestas para estos ejercicios ve a:
 "Mafalda , the Argentinian comic " en este mismo blog .

*To find the answers for these exercises go to :
 " Mafalda , the Argentinian comic " in this blog . 

Complete the blanks of  the comic with
the past simple:

A
Mafalda: Hello! You are so short! What is  your name?
B
Libertad: Libertad (Freedom)
C

Libertad: _______you ________(figure) out your stupid conclusion? Everybody figures out their stupid conclusion when they meet me. (her name) 

 

Vení  a descubrir 

  MENDOZA , ARGENTINA !

Come to discover 

 MENDOZA , ARGENTINA ! 

http://www.mendoza.tur.ar/ 

A
Mum  : I ' m going to the dry cleaner's , Mafalda , take care of your little brother that I'm coming  right away.
Mafalda : Ok. 
B
Guille :Uuaaa
Mafalda :Ehh, well ,take it .
C
Mafalda :If the people _______( know ) to use the lungs like you , the dictators  would have it hard !!!!!

A
Mafalda : Tell me , mum .How is the place we are going on vacations ?
B
Mum : Ah , wonderful ! with marvellous lakes surrounded mountains and forests very beautiful !
C
Mafalda:And who did that so nice ?
Mum : God ______(make ) that .
D
Mafalda : What a pity that they _______(give ) the bid to others.

A

Miguelito : Hello , Susanita ______(tell) me 
that you have a tortoise and I come to know her.

 What name _____you _____(put) her ?

Mafalda :Bureaucracy.

B
Miguelito:Bureaucracy ? But , look to put her 

 bureaucracy ! Why bureaucracy ? Why ?

C
Miguelito :Well , and ?
Mafalda : and she is enclosed may be 

 if you _______(have ) come before ……

D
Miguelito:How ! And today not ? It ‘s nonsense ,

 I _________ (come)  specially !

Mafalda : I am sorry . It has to be tomorrow . 

Today is impossible .

E
Miguelito :And tomorrow , what work timetable ,

 more or less ?

Mafalda :And , I couldn’t inform you.

Miguelito: Aja , Well I come tomorrow.

F
Miguelito:And , In the end , 
I ________(Not know) why 

did she put her  that name ….

*Para encontrar respuestas para estos ejercicios ve a : "Mafalda , the Argentinian comic " en este mismo blog .

*To find the answers for these exercises go to : " Mafalda , the Argentinian comic " in this blog .  

B 
Mafalda : Good morning , sir I come   to make me the key of happiness 
C 
Locksmith:
With pleasure little girl ,  can I see the model ? 
D 
Smart the old man !

B

Lady :How ! Died ? but ... how old was he?

C

Mafalda : What do  years matter? What really matters is to verify that in the end the best age of life is to be alive....

First step : I will not do it
Second step : I can not do it
Third step : I want to do it
Fourth step : How could I do it ?

Fifth step : I will try to do it

Sixth step : I can do it
Seventh step : I will do it 
Eighth step : I did it !!!!!!!!

*Este es el mensaje de Mafalda , que para llegar a un éxito hay que pasar por varios pasos y en cada uno se aprende a ser mejor .
                                                 Best wishes
                                                   Carol .

*This is the message of Mafalda , that to achieve success you have to follow several steps and in each one you learn to be better.
                                                  Best  wishes
                                                   Carol .        

***Y A los Guipuzcoanos de corazón
         Re gracias
por siempre estar ahí .
Con todo cariño de Carol .