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Mafalda is a beloved character of an Argentine comic strip of the same name. It is 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 is MAFALDA, an Argentine girl around five or six years old who is very smart with strong political views.
Mafalda challenges people to think, reexamine their values and stereotypes ,questions their vision of society with the use of irony,creativity and intelligence.
The main character is MAFALDA, an Argentine girl around five or six years old who is very smart with strong political views.
Mafalda challenges people to think, reexamine their values and stereotypes ,questions their vision of society with the use of irony,creativity and intelligence.
She lives with her family:
Her father works for an insurance company, loves plants, and sympathizes with Mafalda's world view and her mother, a housewife, who is dedicated to her family and Mafalda's questions put her to think .
And also, Guille, her baby brother. He loves soup and is a fan of Bridgett Bardot .He shares a pet with his sister Mafalda, a turtle called "bureaucracy ". Guille is a rebellious boy , very opinionated and straightforward. He represents the hippie generation and he makes every once in a while the Peace and Love symbol.
Also, she is surrounded by her friends:
Felipe, a dreamy boy with huge insecurity problems andhuge teeth. He is about a year older than Mafalda. He is shy, nervous, bright, and loves reading comic books, especially those from “El llanero solitario” (The lone ranger).
Her father works for an insurance company, loves plants, and sympathizes with Mafalda's world view and her mother, a housewife, who is dedicated to her family and Mafalda's questions put her to think .
Comic Book : MAFALDA
by Quino
Felipe, a dreamy boy with huge insecurity problems andhuge teeth. He is about a year older than Mafalda. He is shy, nervous, bright, and loves reading comic books, especially those from “El llanero solitario” (The lone ranger).
Manolito, a shopkeeper's son obsessed with money and business . His father (who comes from Spain) owns a little store, and he (Manolito) is very involved in that.
Miguelito, is the youngest of the gang , somewhat of a rebel with a heart of gold, who gets into philosophical debates. He is known for his lettuce shaped hair. He is the son of Italian parents.
Susanita, a gossipy and frivolous girl. She is the opposite of Mafalda and her only interest in life is getting married with a rich man and becoming a housewife.
Libertad is a very short girl, she jokes with her name (Libertad means “Freedom” in English). The daughter of left-wing parents, her mother works as a French translator.
Sometimes she gets in trouble because of her very strong political points of view and also because she tells what she thinks.
Choose the right option:
Sometimes she gets in trouble because of her very strong political points of view and also because she tells what she thinks.
Quino and the statue of Mafalda
in Buenos Aires , Argentina.
Choose the right option:
Mafalda lives with
A her parents.
B her parents , her brother and Grandparents.
C her parents , her brother and “bureaucracy".
A her parents.
B her parents , her brother and Grandparents.
C her parents , her brother and “bureaucracy".
Her father
A doesn’ t sympathise with Mafalda’s idea.
B always agree with her.
C sympathises with her view of the world.
A doesn’ t sympathise with Mafalda’s idea.
B always agree with her.
C sympathises with her view of the world.
Libertad is
A the opposite of Mafalda.
B the opposite of Susanita.
A the opposite of Mafalda.
B the opposite of Susanita.
C very honest.
Susanita has
A the same values as Mafalda.
A the same values as Mafalda.
B many ideals to change society.
C an interest in life: to become rich in money.
C an interest in life: to become rich in money.
Manolito and Miguelito.
A read the Llanero Solitario.
A read the Llanero Solitario.
B they are friends of Mafalda.
C they have values in common.
In the comic Mafalda , the rebellious are:
A Mafalda, Libertad and Susanita.
B Mafalda, Libertad and Miguelito.
C Mafalda, Guille, Libertad and Miguelito.
Invent the dialogues!
Traducciones científico literarias
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Traducción del inglés al español del libro
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What do you think that these comic strips mean?
Wouldn’t be beautiful the world
if libraries were more important than banks?
Look out! irresponsables working!
STOP CENSORSH...
Mafalda : either it run out of painti..., or couldn.. finis... fo.. reaso...that are public domain.
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
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 quirky 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.
Complete the blanks with the Present Simple:
if libraries were more important than banks?
Look out! irresponsables working!
STOP CENSORSH...
Mafalda : either it run out of painti..., or couldn.. finis... fo.. reaso...that are public domain.
Vení a descubrir
MENDOZA, ARGENTINA.
Come
to discover
MENDOZA, ARGENTINA.
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.
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 quirky 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).
reexamine their values and stereoptypes, question
their vision of society and the dictatorship with
the use of irony, creativity and intelligence.
Complete the blanks with the Present Simple:
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!
; hapiness _______ (be not) there either.
Mafalda: Your ideas ______(be) very commendable Felipe, but a little naive.
B
Felipe: _____(be) naive to pretend that people appreciate more culture than money?
C
Felipe :Wouldn’t be beautiful the world if libraries were more important than banks?
D
Manolito : No! piece of extremist!
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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 ...
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
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 Prohibited turn left (No turn left).
B Prohibited to post banners ( No banners posting).
C Prohibited parking (No parking).
D
Mafalda: it______(give) me comfort to see how little by little humanity has achieved to unleash its freedom to limit itself.
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 Prohibited turn left (No turn left).
B Prohibited to post banners ( No banners posting).
C Prohibited parking (No parking).
D
Mafalda: it______(give) me comfort to see how little by little humanity has achieved to unleash its freedom to limit itself.
Vení a descubrir
MENDOZA , ARGENTINA.
Come to discover
MENDOZA , ARGENTINA.
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
Mafalda: The ones living on the north hemisphere ________(live) heads up and we live upside down.
C
Felipe: 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.
.bmp)
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: My dad _______(think) that we should be more compassionate and have a foreign president.
Libertad: My dad _______(think) that we should be more compassionate and have a foreign president.
Mafalda: A foreigner. …Didn't you tell him
that he_________(to be )crazy?
B
Libertad : I told him, yes.
C
But he still ________(think) that is a cruelty to give
to someone born in this country a job from which
the poor one can’t protest against the government.
A
Mafalda: Norway, nobody_______
( talk) about Norway.
B
Mafalda: People_______( talk) about countries
where there are bombs, strikes, assaults, gunshots,
crimes, racism, revolutions.
C
Mafalda: but not A of Norway.
D
Mafalda: It is seen that violence
______(have )more raiting than cod.
that he_________(to be )crazy?
B
Libertad : I told him, yes.
C
But he still ________(think) that is a cruelty to give
to someone born in this country a job from which
the poor one can’t protest against the government.
A
Mafalda: Norway, nobody_______
( talk) about Norway.
B
Mafalda: People_______( talk) about countries
where there are bombs, strikes, assaults, gunshots,
crimes, racism, revolutions.
C
Mafalda: but not A of Norway.
D
Mafalda: It is seen that violence
______(have )more raiting than cod.
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?
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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_______( say) 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.
Comic Books : MAFALDA by Quino.
A
Libertad: The newspapers _______(invent) half of what they _______(say)!
C
Libertad: If we________(add) what newspapers _______(not say) half of what_________( happen), it ________(result) that the newspapers_______ (not exist )!
A
Mafalda: "use" " buy " "take " "eat " "test " ! Eeeeeeh ! What _____ they_____( think) we are?
B
Mafalda: And what are we?
D
Mafalda: the damn know that we already _____(not know).
Mafalda: "use" " buy " "take " "eat " "test " ! Eeeeeeh ! What _____ they_____( think) we are?
B
Mafalda: And what are we?
D
Mafalda: the damn know that we already _____(not know).
D
Mafalda: is that we _________( not want) to start spring bitter.
A
TV: Ma'am, buy a washex, the new automatic washing machine!
B
TV: So simple that even a child can handle it!
C
Mafalda: And to hint that even clumsy ladies can handle it they _______(have) to use us?
Mafalda: So small, and in front of the television he already_______ (reason) the same as older people!
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_______( say) 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 : Mum ,______(be ) this beach also our homeland?
Mum: And very our homeland !
Why ?
Mafalda: Because it _________(seem) that some ____________(believe) that the only thing to keep clean of the homeland___(be ) the historical past and those things.
A
Salesman: Good morning, girl. ______(be ) the head of the family here?
B
Mafalda: There are no bosses in this family; we ______(be ) a cooperative society .
[Closes the door]
D
Salesman: So ... in that sales course there were not all the answers.
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by Quino.
A
Mafalda: But Libertad, you are putting it upside down!
B
Libertad: Upside down regarding what?
Earth____ (be ) in space and space_____(have)
no up or down.
C
Libertad: That the North hemisphere_____(be) above
is a psichological trick invented
by those who _____(believe)
by those who _____(believe)
they______(be) above so that
those who believe we ______(be) below
continue to believe that we______(be ) below
and the bad thing ______(be) that if we continue to believe
that we ______(be) below we will continue to be down.
But from today it______(be) over!
D
Mum: Where were you?
Mafalda: I _______(not know) but something it has become over!
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
Mafalda: Smart the old man!
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Complete the blanks with the ING forms:
B
Mum: Now, that you _____________(help) me , pass the duster to the globe.
D
Mafalda: Do I clean all the countries or only the ones that have bad government?
A
Guille: Dad?
Mafalda : Dad ____________(work)
B
Guille : Why?
Mafalda: Because when you are a grown up you have to work.
C
Guille: Why?
Mafalda : Because if not he can't buy food, clothes, nothing.
D
Guille: Why?
Mafalda: Because in this way the world is organized.
E
Guille: Why?
F
Mafalda: A year and a half and he is a candidate for tear gases.
A
Radio: Once more our microphones bring the country the emotion of our most popular sport.
B
Mafalda: __________(complain)?
C
Radio: Football!
B
Mafalda:________(search) the roots of the national?
Man: No, girl, a gas escape.
C
Mafalda: Like always the urgent doesn 't leave time for the important.
Radio: Once more our microphones bring the country the emotion of our most popular sport.
B
Mafalda: __________(complain)?
C
Radio: Football!
Mafalda:________(search) the roots of the national?
Man: No, girl, a gas escape.
C
Mafalda: Like always the urgent doesn 't leave time for the important.
Comic book MAFALDA
by Quino.
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!
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this beautiful
country
ARGENTINA.
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Complete the blanks with Future simple:
A
Mafalda: When I grow up, I______(work )as an interpreter for the United Nations.
B
Mafalda: That way, I_______(help) countries understand each other.
C
Mafalda: I_____( study) English, Russian…
D
US rep to the Soviet Union rep: Tell him to go to $#&(
E
Mafalda: And I______(learn) some judo just in case.
A
Felipe: Finally! Finally classes are over!
B
Felipe: Finally the anguish of studying lessons and doing homework is over!
C
Felipe: My God and now what ________we ________(do) with all that freedom ?
Complete the blanks 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).Mafalda: Hello! You are so short! What is your name?
B
Libertad: Libertad (Freedom).
C
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 : What does a tortoise have to do to live? Be a tortoise !
Miguelito : What does a tortoise have to do to live? Be a tortoise !
B
Miguelito: What does a cat have to do to live? Be a cat !
Miguelito: What does a cat have to do to live? Be a cat !
C
Miguelito: What does a bear have to do to live? Be a bear !
Miguelito: What does a bear have to do to live? Be a bear !
D
Miguelito: What does a guy have to do to live ? Be a bricklayer, lawyer, turner, clerk or I don' t know !
Miguelito: What does a guy have to do to live ? Be a bricklayer, lawyer, turner, clerk or I don' t know !
E
Miguelito: Why ______ we humans _______(get) the stupid part of being superior animals?
Miguelito: Why ______ we humans _______(get) the stupid part of being superior animals?
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A
Miguelito: Hello, Susanita ______(tell) me
that you have a tortoise and I come to know her.
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
Miguelito: Bureaucracy? But, look to put her
bureaucracy! Why bureaucracy ? Why?
C
Miguelito: Well, and?
Mafalda: and she is enclosed may be
Miguelito: Well, and?
Mafalda: and she is enclosed may be
if you had come before ……
D
Miguelito: How! And today not? It ‘s nonsense ,
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,
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
Miguelito: And, In the end,
I ________(Not know) why
did she put her that name ….
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Comic books : MAFALDA by Quino
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B
Lady: How! Died? but ...
how old was he?
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....
What really matters is
to verify that in the end
the best age of life
is to be alive....
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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.Second step: I can not do it.
Third step: I want to do it.
Fourth step: How could I do it?
Sixth step: I can do it.
Seventh step: I will 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.
Re gracias
por siempre estar ahí .
Con todo cariño de Coral .
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