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SPANISH COMIC

TRANSCRIPT

In the first frame of today’s comic, we see Archie, Reggie and Hot Dog. Reggie is giving Hot Dog a command. When you give a person or an animal a command you are telling the person or animal to do something. Reggie is telling Hot Dog to sit. He says, “Hot Dog! Sit!” Hot Dog looks at Reggie but does not sit. In the second frame of the comic we see Hot Dog walking away from Reggie and Jughead. Reggie is talking to Jughead. He tells Jughead that his dog is dumb. He means that the Hot Dog is not a smart dog. Reggie tells Jughead that his dog is so dumb that he cannot even follow a simple command. Hot Dog cannot do the easy thing that he has been told to do. Reggie says that Hot Dog did not sit down like he was told but he just walked away! In the third frame we see the joke! Jughead tells Reggie that he has to have patience. To have patience means to calmly wait. Jughead tells Reggie that he has to give Hot Dog a chance or he has to give Hot Dog some time to follow the commands. In this last frame we see Hot Dog pushing a chair toward Jughead and Reggie. Hmmmm… Do you think that Hot Dog is gonna sit down on the chair? Do you think that Hot Dog didn’t want to sit on the floor so he got a chair to sit on? It looks like Hot Dog IS going to follow the command that Reggie gave him! He just wanted to get a chair to sit on. Now THAT is a smart dog!

GLOSSARY

1. Command - When you give a command you are telling someone to do something. A command is an order that should be obeyed.

The teacher commanded, “Do not talk in the classroom”.
Mrs. Jones commanded Jughead to take Hot Dog out for a walk.

2. Sit – to be on a chair or seat, or on the ground, with the top half of your body upright and your weight resting on your buttocks

Cheryl is sitting on a chair.
The chair that Cheryl is sitting on is tan. (Tan is a color. It is a light brown color.)

3. Away from – When we say that Hot Dog moved away from Reggie and Jughead we mean that he moved far from them. Hot Dog has NOT moved towards them. He didn’t move TO them, he moved away from them.

The red arrow is pointing towards Hot Dog.
The green arrow is pointing away from Hot Dog.

4. Dumb – Stupid. Not very smart.

Dilton is not dumb. He is very smart.
Betty is not a dumb blonde. (When we say “dumb blond” we are talking about a pretty girl or woman with blonde hair who seems stupid).

5. Follow a command – When you follow a command you do what you are told. When you follow a command you do something in the way that someone has told you to do it.

Follow the instructions carefully when filling out the form.
Follow Veronica’s plan.

6. Simple – Something that is simple is not difficult or complicated to do or understand. It is easy to do or understand.

Some people think it is simple to use a computer. Do you think so?
Do you think that learning English is simple? I don’t think it is!

7. Patience - When we tell someone to have patience we are telling him or her to be calm. We are telling them not to be excited, nervous, or upset.

Jughead told Reggie to have patience while he waited for Hot Dog.
The man in the car tried to remain patient or calm while he waited for the cars to start moving again. He was in a traffic jam. A traffic jam is a long line of vehicles on a road that cannot move or can only move very slowly.

8. Chance – To give someone a chance means to give the person TIME to do something or an opportunity to do something.

“I didn’t have a chance to eat lunch today” whined Jughead.
Veronica didn’t have a chance to do her homework because she was busy at the shoe sale at Lacy’s store.

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

1. Who is speaking in the first frame?
2. Why did Hot Dog walk away from Jughead and Reggie in frame two?
3. Have you ever been in a traffic jam? Did you have patience or we could say, were you patient?

ANSWERS

1. Reggie is speaking to Hot Dog in the first frame.
2. Hot Dog walked away because he was going to get a chair to sit on.
3. Yes, I have been in a traffic jam. I was able to be patient.