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GOING FURTHER
Pre-reading
1 Do you read comics? What kind of comics do you like reading?
2 Observe the web comic below. What is it about? Share your ideas with a classmate.
Reading
3 Read the web comic and answer the questions in your notebook. 
Personal answers.
Possible answers: It is about two people having trouble to understand each other. / 
It is about two people that manage to communicate in English, but not in German.
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Default Language
Sunday, September 23, 2012
About
ITCHY FEET is the weekly web 
comic about travel, life in foreign 
countries, and learning new 
languages. Readers can expect an 
astonishing array of exaggerated 
facial expressions, humorous 
situations involving foreigners and 
foreign lands, and ordinary silliness.
Every Sunday! 
By Malachi Ray Rempen
and Keen Bean Studio.
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A Who is the author of the web comic?
B Where and when was this web comic published?
Malachi Ray Rempen
It was published on the Itchy Feet Comic Website, on September 23, 2012.
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4 Identify the characters and where they are. Justify your 
answer with elements from the web comic.
5 Read the fi rst and the second panel of the web comic. Choose the correct answer for the 
following questions and write them in your notebook.
A What language do the characters use?
• They talk in English, because they do not speak German.
• They talk in German. The colors in the speech bubbles represent the German fl ag. X
B Is their communication successful?
• No, it isn’t. The waiter does not understand what the customer is trying to say. X
• Yes, it is. The waiter asks other questions and the customer answers them in German. 
6 Now read the third and the fourth panels. Then read the sentences below and, in your 
notebook, write T (true) or F (false).
A In the third panel, they are silent and they look comfortable. F
B The language they speak in the fourth panel is not the same language they speak in the 
beginning of the web comic. T
C The waiter and the customer look uncomfortable in the third panel. T
D The waiter and the customer have a common language that they both understand. T
7 What language do the characters use in the last panel? Is communication successful in the 
end? Write and justify your answer in Portuguese in your notebook.
The characters are a waiter and a customer. They are in Germany. Possible elements: the table, the 
clothes of the waiter, the notepad, the candle, the menu and the title “Itchy Feet in Germany”.
They talk in English and the communication is successful. It is possible to see the United Kingdom � ag in both 
speech bubbles, which means they can understand each other.
Post-reading 
 8 Which of the following sentences from Odette Spiteri’s blog 
post relate to the web comic?
A “Learning helps me discover my hidden talents.”
B “Big companies hire professional staff, soon after 
making sure that the people they are employing are 
good in English.”
C “The English language helps us to communicate with 
nearly all the people around the world.” X
D “After all, no man, or woman is an island.” 
 9 What do you usually do when people don’t understand what 
you are trying to say? Personal answer.
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