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Cartoon worksheet for use in classroom. For English teaching or any suitable subject or lesson. Students fill in the blank spaces to guess the correct missing word. Ideal excercise for young learners, or adults at the beginner level of English as a second language ESL, [...]

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January 2010 Blank Captions Cartoon Worksheet

Grammar Points:

Use of present perfect continuous for an activity that is repeated which started in the past and continues up to today. In this case, the activity is repeated with some sort of regularity, but not necessarily at exact intervals.

Vocabulary and Phrases: phrasal verb “luck out”, fortune, wishing well.

Caption: Dexter: “I wish for a small fortune”

“I’ve been wishing here for years and never lucked out.” [...]

December 2009 Blank Caption Cartoon Worksheet

Grammar Points:

1. Making wishes in the present using

{I wish + verb in past tense} eg. I wish you were here, I wish I knew that before, I wish I had more time.

2. Use of will for on the spot “spontaneous” decisions, intentions or predictions. In the cartoon, Pierre makes a prediction, saying to Dexter that “he will have one”.

Vocabulary and Phases: Low-rider, flames, “voila” borrowed from French meaning “Here you are” or “There you go”.

Caption: Dexter: “I wish I had a low-rider with flames on the side.”

Pierre: “You will have one. Voila!” [...]