Answer the following questions

1. What is a road sign?

2. What were early road signs made of?

3. When did multidirectional signs become common?

4. Why did pictorial signs appear?

5. What material was used for road signs in 18th and 19th centuries?

6. What were road signs like in XX century?

7. What do modern signs look like?

8. What categories of signs do you know?

9. What measurement systems are used for road signs?

10. Who has developed the metric standards for all signs?

11. What languages are used for road signs?

 

Say if the sentences concerning Text 1A are true or false.

1. Greeks were first to introduce milestones.

2. In Stone Age multidirectional signs became common to show directions to country borders.

3. First modern road signs were created for bicycles.

4. With the development of water transport there was a necessity to introduce understandable road signs.

5. Pictorial signs use words to give information.

6. Modern signs were made retroreflective for them to be well seen in the day-time.

7. There are eight common categories of road signs.

8. Meter is used all over the world as the measurement of distance on road signs.

9. Each country uses its national language to give information on road signs.

10. Road signs provide safety on roads.

11. Most US road signs use miles or feet as a measurement system.

 

Circle the odd word.

1.	cast iron	sheet aluminium	stone	glass
2.	measurement system	metric standard	mandatory sign	metric distance
3.	traffic (road) sign	directional arm	fingerpost	direction
4.	visibility	traffic volume	road quality	retroreflective

Give English equivalents of the following words and word combinations.

Предписывающий дорожный знак, перекресток, преодолеть языковой барьер, отражающая пластмасса, дорожные знаки с электронным дисплеем, видимость в ночное время, увеличить дорожную безопасность, запрещающие и ограничивающие знаки, знаки, предупреждающие об опасности, система измерения, графические знаки, новое поколение дорожных знаков, чугун.

 

Match the image of the road sign with its name.

Right bend, passing prohibited, one-way, yield, pedestrian crossing, deer crossing, stopping and parking prohibited, garage, no entry, parking.

9. Make up a Power Point presentation about strange road signs.

 

1. Fill in the gaps using the words below:

road signs, intersection, traffic volume, retroreflective, sheet aluminium, visibility, distance, stone and wood, mandatory sign, prohibitory signs.

1. _________ were used as materials for first road signs.

2. If the _________ on the road is bad you should be very careful while driving.

3. Road signs may be done of _________.

4. _________ are necessary to regulate traffic flows.

5. In Russia the _________ between cities is usually given in kilometres.

6. To avoid car accidents it is better to place a traffic-light at the road _________.

7. _________ tells us how to behave on the road.

8. _________ say what is not allowed to do on the road.

9. Nowadays cars become more available and _________ increases.

10. Road signs must be _________ for them to be well seen at night.

Translate the following sentences using the vocabulary of Unit 1.

1. Дорожные знаки обеспечивают безопасность дорожного движения.

2. Римляне ставили столбы-указатели, чтобы показать расстояние до Рима.

3. В туман видимость ухудшается.

4. В деревне еду готовят в чугунных горшках.

5. Дети должны носить одежду со светоотражающими элементами, чтобы быть хорошо заметными на дороге.

6. Предписывающие дорожные знаки – это одностороннее движение, пешеходный переход и т.д.

7. Листовой алюминий – легкий многофункциональный материал.

8. С каждым годом машин в Казани становится больше, и интенсивность движения сильно увеличивается.

9. Указательный столб на развилке дорог показывает направление и расстояние.

10. Увидев знак «пешеходный переход», водитель должен снизить скорость и пропустить пешеходов.

11. Дорожные знаки служат источником информации для участников дорожного движения.

12. В центре города стоянка запрещена.

13. Первые дорожные знаки были созданы для велосипедистов.