signs

You are going to interpret some signs and notices found in different places in English speaking countries and prove whether you can get the specific information from them.

(It is not necessary to understand every word)

Photograph number 1:

  • Where can you find this sign?

  • Explain in your words at least three rules.

Photograph number 2:

Can you explain in your own words the implicit message of this notice?

Photograph number 3:

Photograph number 4.

    • Where can you find this notice?What can happen if people don't pay attention to it?
    • Do you agree with this message? Why?
    • Photographs number 5 and 6.Where can you find these two notices?
    • Explain in other words what they mean.

Photographs number 7 and 8

Where can you see both notices?

What can happen if people disobey them?

Photographs number 9 and 10

Photographs taken at the same place.

    • What type of place is it and what is its name?
    • One of them is an offer, which one? What does it offer and why?
    • The other is a warning or prohibition. Can you explain the meaning in your own words?

Photographs 11 and 12

These two photographs were taken at two different types of shops, but they sell things for the same type of people.

  • What type of people?
    • What do they sell in the shop in photograph 11?
    • What month/s of the year were the photographs taken?

Photographs number 13 and 14

    • These two photographs were taken in two different areas of the same place. What type of place do you think it is?
  • What is the meaning of photograph number 13?
    • Where can you find notices like this?

Photograph number 15

    • These are some of the regulations at Trinity College Gardens
    • Rewrite the four regulations starting with : You Mustn't.......

Photographs number 16 and 17

    • People who have dogs find some disadvantages when they go out.
    • Look at the notices above: can you explain what type of disadvantages?

Photograph number 18

    • Where can you find this notice?
    • What is it suggesting?

Photograph number 19

Where can you find this notice?

Photograph number 20

What type of "emergency" could it be? What is the meaning of "lift"?

Photograph number 21

We are going to finish this activity with another warning. Look at this photograph:

    • In your opinion, Who is Ashley ?
    • What does he really want?
    • Would you like to have that sign in your bedroom?

I hope you have enjoyed this activity. You can see you understand more English than you think.

Congratulations!!!!!!!

Lola Aceituno