Iqbal Masih's Comic

Iqbal Masih's Comic Strip 

Possible Activities to Do:

This comic can be used in many different ways:

• Extensive reading, followed by a debate about Child Slavery in class.
• Reading aloud; practising pronunciation and reading-comprehension.
• Grammar: practising usage of verb tenses since there appears a varity of verbal tenses throughout the comic strip; discourse analysis: teaching connectors and cohesion devices, etc. 
• A Project: different teams of students can research into child slavery in different parts of the world; or into different forms of child slavery: e.g. child soldiers, prostitution, child miners; children working in sweatshops, etc. Then, they can do a Power Point and present it to the rest of the class or to the school.
• Developing writing skills: students can write an argumentative composition (possible titles: OUR INDIFFERENCE TO THE FACT THERE ARE 400 MILLION CHILD SLAVES WORLDWIDE; DO INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS REALLY WANT TO PUT AN END TO CHILD SLAVERY?; WHO BENEFITS FROM CHEAP CHILD FORCED LABOUR, etc.)
• Students can also write letters to international organisations such as: UN; UNICEF; etc.
• Developing oral skills: students can write and deliver a speech against child slavery in class.

After talking and analysing these outrageous injustices, it is very important to transmit young people hope and the idea that we CAN do many things and work together for a better world as long as we take the step of getting involved. Therefore, it is recommendable to finish the lesson with an activity which gets students into some kind of action against Child Slavery.