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Warnings
Be careful
Don’t graffiti Do not litter
Wet floor
DISEÑO
La hoja de trabajo consta de 9 tarjetas con imágenes de signos de prohibición o alerta y 9 tarjetas con el texto
correspondiente a cada una de las tarjetas con imágenes.
ACTIVITY: Warnings – Pair and group work: speaking
TIME: 30 minutes
AIM: To match a warning/prohibition sign to its meaning and to explain reasons behind.
PROCEDURE
Before class: Make a copy of the worksheet for every four students.
Cut out the picture and the text cards, and keep them separately.
In class:
1. Ask students to work in groups of four and give one set of picture cards and one set of
text cards to each group of students.
PE 2. Tell students that they have to match the signs to their meaning.
3. Give students time to do the matching and then check the answers with them.
4. Once students have the correct matching tell them they are going to produce a mini
conversation.
5. Divide groups of students into two.
6. Each pair will work with 4 warning/prohibition signs (there will be one left out).
R on L 7. Ask each pair of students to produce a short conversation stating the warning/prohibition
that each sign indicates, justifying it. You may ask them to imagine one of them is a new
student at school and the other is showing him/her the school to a new student.
For example: OPTION:
If you consider
A: Look at the stairs. No running. your class to be
B: Why? weak to cope with
A: Because you can fall. the little
B: OK, thanks. conversation, try a
simpler version.
8. Be ready and available to help students to make meaningful conversations. Make them For example:
think where they would find the signs and help them to recognize the possible A: Look, No
consequences of not acting accordingly. running.
B: OK, thanks.
IDEAS FOR EVALUATION: Have students to display the signs they did in the follow up to evaluate what they did.