This comic strip is an extract from a series of comics entitled “What we should have been taught in our senior year of high school,” by TheOatmeal.com. Transcript Teacher: “So instead of calculus, which 99% of you will never use after high school, today we’re going to learn the most…
Transcript Newscaster: “And that’s the way we want you to think it is.” Vocabulary Newscaster (n.) /ˈnjuːzˌkɑː.stər/someone who reads out the reports on a television or radio news program Context This comic strip is making fun of the fact that some news channels don’t really report an objective version of…
Transcript Box 1: Hurry up! Let’s get a first day of school pic before the bus comes. Box 1: What’s the point? Box 2: To document the beginning of a new year. A school year full of hope and promise. To capture the start of another journey toward academic excellence!…
Transcript Box 1: Sir, you believe you have Sheehan’s syndrome due to a Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction during basketball practice in school? Box 1: Yes! Box 2: And you admit to having Münchausen syndrome?! Box 2: Ack! I must be quarantined! Box 3: Looking up disease names won’t help you escape final…
Transcript Box 1: Sometimes you over-dramatize to get your way Box 2: What a hurtful thing to say! Like a stab in the heart! Box 3: I may as well die! Box 3: Sorry. Vocabulary over-dramatize over = too much to dramatize (v.) /ˈdræmətaɪz/ to make something seem more exciting…
