Unit 6 LOOK AT THAT SIGN!

Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to understand: 1. traffic signs, 2. itinerary, 3. and menu.

We see a lot of traffic signs along the way we pass. The traffic signs will help drivers run their cars or motorcycles orderly. Later, we can get to our destination safely.

Section One
Traffic Signs Activity 1 Your teacher will dictate the meanings of some signs and symbols. Write them down below each picture

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Activity 2

Study the signs on activity 1 and make a short dialogue based on the model of an example below. Then, practice it with your partner.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10. drive so fast go straight ahead take photograph touch anything go to left

Use the cues below. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. smoke here park here turn around enter the road blow the horn.

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The model of the dialogue. A B A B : : : : Dont smoke here. Why? Look at that sign! It says No Smoking. Oh, I see.

Activity 3

Make another short dialogue about the previous signs and symbols with the following model.

A : What does that sign mean? B : It means that you are not allowed to smoke here. A : Oh, I see. You can modify the clause ... you are not allowed to (boldfaced) With these clauses: - you are not permitted to - it is prohibited to - it is forbidden to

Activity 4

Match the symbols with the meanings. Write them down on the provided spaces below.

The following story is told by Amel about her experience when he was a child. Once, my father took me to his office. When we got to the office, we had to go up to the next floor. There were two ways, one of them was on the left side with a symbol of ( 1 ) and another was by a lift. There was a symbol of ( 2 ) , by the lift doors. I was walking on a corridor when I saw a symbol of ( 3 ) on the door of a room. Inside the together with its

office room, I saw a symbol of ( 4 )

real tool below it. On another side of the wall, there was a symbol of ( 5 ) on a box. I also saw a symbol of ( 6 )
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on an electronic device. At noon, my father took me to the canteen. I saw a symbol of ( 7 ) by the entrance of the canteen. I was

having lunch when someone entered a box room with a symbol of ( 8 ) in the canteen. Then, I knew that the cantten served not only meals and beverages, but also a telecommunication service. After having lunch, I went to toilet and I entered a room with a symbol of on its door.

On the way home, my father dropped in the gas station and I saw a symbol of (10 ) there.

a fire extinguisher smoking section first aid lady

electrical hazard public telephone poison stairs

inflammable handicapped information center restaurant

(1) = ___________________________________. (2) = ___________________________________. (3) = ___________________________________. (4) = ___________________________________. (5) = ___________________________________. (6) = ___________________________________. (7) = ___________________________________. (8) = ___________________________________. (9) = ___________________________________. (10) = ___________________________________.

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Activity 5

Read this passage. Rewrite the bold printed phrases next to the pictures of traffic signs.

Amel also has an experience of the trip to Malang. Here is the story. When I was a student of elementary school, I went to Malang for the first time. I went there with my family driving my fathers car. I wondered to see many traffic signs along the trip. The first sign which I saw was that drivers must wear their seat belt. My father showed it to me while he was explaining the meaning of it. When passing a school zone, I found the second sign which meant a school crosswalk ahead. Then, the car was running slowly when I saw a sign of road work ahead. Some minutes later, I heard a bell, saw flashing lights ahead and a sign of railway crossing beside the road. Later, I saw a train pass. When we passed a countryside, the road was hilly. There, I saw a sign of steep hill ahead. There was also a sign of narrow bridge ahead so my father drove the car slowly. I was very excited that I could enjoy watching a panorama on the bridge. Unfortunately, the rain fell and my father had to slow down his car. There was a sign of road surface slippery when wet. At the time we passed an arterial road, there was a sign of the heavy trucks should use this roadway. As we would get into a tunnel, there was a sign of underpass ahead. The overhead clearance was 3.1 meters. Our car swayed to left side when we passed a sharp curve to the right. There, I saw a group of arrowhead signs along of the road. As I remembered, the signs were often found in a game of car race.

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Activity 6

Understand this passage from its context. Draw the right traffic sign in the blank boxes. Then write the meaning of the traffic signs below.

I was amazed that there were many traffic signs in the city.

Entering the city center, there was (1)

. As I know,

it meant that the roadway was divided into two different directions. My father drove rather slowly about 40 to 50

kilometer per hour because there was (2)

. My father

had to stop the car when some people crossed the road because

there was (3)

. The car ran more slowly to prepare

to stop after passing (4)

. When we stopped, I saw

(5)

that later we would pass a crossroad by turning

in a circle way. At one direction there was (6)

, so

we didnt pass the road. Then, I heard a noise of a plane flying

when I saw (7)

. The picture of the plane pointed

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the direction to the airport. After seeing (8)

, we got

to the crossroad. There, I saw (9)

. So, my father

drove the car straight. After passing (10) turned the car to it to fill gasoline into the car.

, my father

Activity 7
(1) = (2) = (3) = (4) = (5) = (6) = (7) = (8) = (9) = (10) =

Write the meaning of the traffic signs you have drawn above.

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Section Two
Itinerary Activity 8
1. 2.

Answer these questions.

Have you ever got on train? ____________________________________. Where did you go? ____________________________________.

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3. 4. 5.

Did you enjoy the trip? ____________________________________. Do you think that the train is faster than a bus? ____________________________________. Is the train faster than a plane? ____________________________________.

Activity 9

Study this train schedule and answer the questions below.

SEMARANG TRAIN SCHEDULE

Train KA Argomuria I KA Argomuria II KA Kamandanu KA Senja Utama KA Fajar Bisnis *KA Argo B. Anggrek I *KA Argo B. Anggrek II *KA Sembrani *KA Gumawang *KA Bangunkarta

Class Executive Executive Executive Business Business Executive Executive Executive Exec/Bus Exec/Bus

Depart from Tawang Station Tawang Station Tawang Station Tawang Station Tawang Station Tawang Station Tawang Station Tawang Station Tawang Station Tawang Station

At 05:30 16:00 21:00 20:00 08:00 12:05 00:05 22:58 21:35 20:40

Arrive at Gambir Station Gambir Station Gambir Station Senen Station Senen Station Gambir Station Gambir Station Jkt Kota Station^ Jkt Kota Station^ Ps Senen Station

At 11:00 21:30 03:02 02:07 14:18 17:34 05:33 05:12 04:30 03:58

*Origin : Surabaya /Jombang

^ : Last destination : Jakarta Kota Station

(adapted from an advertisement in Ilman Nafian bulletin, edition of I/MGG1/01/2008)

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

How many destinations are there? What trains have two alternative classes? How many trains start their trips from Surabaya or Jombang? What executive train will arrives in Jakarta at 9:30 in the evening? Mr. Purnomo is going to be a speaker in a seminar in Jakarta tomorrow morning. He wants to have time to take a rest and prepare the material in the hotel before it. If he wants to arrive in Jakarta at night as late as possible, what train should he take?

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Activity 10 Answer this questions below based on the following train schedule.

TRAVEL BY TRAIN
Fast and Frequent Services from The Central Station
FARES TO DEPART ARRIVE PLATFORM FIRST-CLASS SECOND-CLASS
ONE-WAY ROUND TRIP ONE-WAY ROUND TRIP

Greytown Westview

8:15 9:20 8:05 8:55 9:13 7:40 8:35 9:20 7:50 9:00

10:10 11:17 10:35 11:20 11:42 10:22 11:05 12:02 12:40 13:45

2 5 4 5 4 12 12 14 9 9

$14.20 $20.00

$20.00 $39.00

$10.70 $15.20

$15.00 $29.00

Greenville

$21.20

$40.50

$17.50

$31.50

Foxley

$35.00

$65.20

$22.40

$41.25

(taken from Interact; communicative activities for English language learning, p. 100)

Activity 11 Practice in pairs. Play roles as a ticket seller and somebody who wants to go by train.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Someone takes a one-way of second class ticket to Greenville. How much does the ticket price? A young man wants to go to Westview. The train leaves at 8:55. What time will the man arrive at the destination? On what platform should the young man be ready to get on the train? How long does the train leaving at 7:50 take time to get to Foxley? What does the latest train leave the station?

Note: Have each conversation not less than 3 pairs of sentences. You may involve information of: a. the destination, b. what time it departs and arrives, c. what platform it departs from,

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d. what class and one way or round trip he takes, e. how much is the fare, to ask and respond between them.

Activity 12 Study the following schedule carefully to answer the questions.

Flight Schedule to and from Lombok DEPARTURE FROM MATARAM (AMI) TO SURABAYA (SUB) JAKARTA (CGK) & JOGJAKARTA (JOG)
FLIGHT NO DESTINATION ETD ETA DAY OF SERVICE AIRCRAFT VIA

JT 651 GA 423 MZ 830 GA 420 GA 421

JAKARTA JAKARTA SURABAYA JAKARTA JOGJAKARTA

06:25 06:20 12:20 15:10 15:10

07:30 12:20 17:20 15:35

DAILY DAILY DAILY DAILY DAILY

B732

DIRECT DIRECT DIRECT JOGJAKARTA -

ARRIVAL FROM SURABAYA (SUB) JAKARTA (CGK) & JOGJAKARTA (JOG)

FLIGHT NO FROM ETA ETD DAY OF SERVICE AIRCRAFT VIA

MZ 831 JT 640 GA 420 GA 042 GA 420

SURABAYA SURABAYA JAKARTA SURABAYA JOGJAKARTA

09:40 10:40 10:25 11:50 12:10

11:40 12:30 14:30 13:40 14:30

DAILY DAILY DAILY DAILY DAILY

B-734 B-734

DIRECT DIRECT JOGJAKARTA DIRECT -

(taken from: http://www.lombokkomodo.com/lombok-flight-schedule.htm)

DESCRIPTION: **ETA = ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL **ETD = ESTIMATED TIME OF DEPARTURE Situation: Suppose you live in Jakarta and wants to spend vacation in Lombok. 1. 2. How many alternatives of flight can you take? If you take flight GA 420, what time does the plane take off?

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Does the plane go directly to Lombok? If no, where will you transit? What time does the plane depart from Jogjakarta? When will you arrive at the destination?

Situation: Suppose you have spent your vacation in Lombok and want to go home. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Mention the alternative flights you can take? If you take GA 423, what time you will leave Lombok? Will the plane transit somewhere on the way? How long does your trip to your hometown? What time you will arrive in Jakarta?

Section Three
Menu Activity 13 Answer these questions.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Do you often eat in restaurants? ____________________________________. Do you go there with your friends or your family? ____________________________________. What meal do you like most? ____________________________________. What is your favorite drink? ____________________________________. What was the most expensive meal or drink you paid? ____________________________________.

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Activity 14 Study this menu and answer the questions below.

Caf Formidable French Onion Soup (Choose one) Sirloin steak Roast beef Seafood special Green salad Chocolate mousse Coffee or tea $ 20.00

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Can someone have all the foods in the menu at once? How many kinds of drink are offered in the menu? What is the available appetizer? Mention the main course offered in the menu! How much will someone pay for his meal there?

Menu
- Breakfast Beverages: Orange Juice Grape Juice Milk Coffee Side Orders: Toast Bacon Sausage Main Courses: Scrambled Eggs Fried Eggs Boiled Eggs Omelette Cereal

Menu
- Lunch and Dinner Beverages: Milk Milkshake Coke Orange Juice Grape Juice Main Orders: Taco Soup Hamburger Steak Chicken Spaghetii Ham Seafood

Activity 15 Use the menus above to have conversations with your partner.
You can use these guidelines: 1. Situation: you are on a trip or staying in a hotel. You find this menu in the hotel restaurant or another one outside the hotel. You have to choose your meal on your own interest.
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Play roles with your partner as guests in a restaurant. One of you will ask another what foods and why he/she chooses. When you finish, change the role. Have another conversation with different role. You can make variation by adding prices for the foods.

3. 4.

Activity 16 Answer the questions based on the following menu.

Blackcha Caf
Soups: Cup/Bowl Salads: Mixed Greens Pasta Salad Chef Salad Rp13.500 Rp25.000 Rp38.000 Medium/Large Rp4.000/9.000 Rp7.000/10.000 Rp9.000/13.500 Rp7.000/10.000 Sandwiches (served with Cole Slaw) Tuna Salad Roast Beef Grilled Chicken Breast Desserts Ice Cream (Chocolate, Vanilla, or Strawberry) Clam Chowder French Onion Rp20.000 Rp33.500 Rp13.500 Rp38.000 Rp42.500 Rp62.500 Chicken noodle Rp18.000/27.000 Clam Chowder Rp18.000/27.000 French Onion Rp27.000/41.000

Burgers (served with French Fries) B e v e r a g e s Hamburger Cheeseburger Turkey Burger Rp49.500 Rp54.000 Rp51.500 Coffee or Tea Soda Ice Tea Milk

1. 2.

What is the name of the restaurant? A man has ordered a cup of chicken noodle soup, roast beef, a medium of soda, chocolate cake. How much will he pay later? 3. Mention the available flavors of the ice cream there? 4. What food may someone have for the last time? 5. Is the french fries sold separately? 6. Is the clam chowder soup as expensive as the french onion soup? 7. Is the coffee more expensive than milk? 8. Which one is more expensive, tuna salad or roast beef? 9. What is the most expensive beverage? 10. What burger is the cheapest?

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Activity 17 Search a restaurant menu on the internet. After getting it, make at least five questions you have learned in the previous activities about the menu together with their answers. Exchange your work to your partner and try to correct it if theres a mistake. Ask your teacher if you find difficulties.
Grammar Focus: Degree of Comparison

Activity 18 Study the following explanation.

( ( ( ( ( The Chicken Noodle soup is as expensive as the Clam Chowder one. The coffee costs the same price as the tea. The Roast Beef is more expensive than Tuna Salad. The Tuna Salad is cheaper than the Roast Beef. The iced tea is the most expensive among all beverages.

It can be learned from the examples above that there are three degrees of comparison, i.e. positive, comparative and superlative degree. Positive cheap expensive Comparative cheap more expensive Superlative (the) cheapest (the) most expensive

The followings are some common rules in forming the comparative and superlative degree of comparison. 1. For one syllable words, a) add er for the comparative degree and add est for the superlative. e.g.: tall taller tallest sweet sweeter sweetest b) Adjectives ending in e, just add r and st. e.g.: large larger largest late later latest

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If the adjectives end in a vowel and a consonant, double the consonant before adding er and est. e.g.: fat fatter fattest thin thinner thinnest

2.

For two syllables words, a) If the adjectives end in y, add er for the comparative degree and add est for the superlative. e.g.: busy busier busiest ugly uglier ugliest It is also preferred to add er and est for the following adjectives. clever cleverer cleverest narrow narrower narrowest quiet quieter quietest simple simpler simplest b) For most adjectives and adverbs, precede more for the comparative degree and most for the superlative. e.g.: famous more famous most famous tragic more tragic most tragic

3.

For the adverbs end in ly either of two or more syllable, precede more for the comparative degree and most for the superlative. e.g.: slowly more slowly most slowly carefully more carefully most carefully It is an exception for the adverb early. It uses suffix er and est. early earlier earliest

4.

For more than two syllables words, just precede more for the comparative degree and most for the superlative. e.g.: difficult more difficult most difficult interesting more interesting most interesting There are some irregular forms of comparative and superlative degree.

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Positive Comparative Superlative bad far far good well little many much old old worse farther further better better less more more elder older

Explanation

(the) worst Adj. (the) farthest Adj. used for distance (the) furthest Adj. used for time, distance and abstract things (the) best Adj. (the) best Adv. (the) least Adj. (the) most Adj. used for countable nouns (the) most Adj. used for uncountable nouns (the) eldest Adj. used for members of family (the) oldest Adj. used for other people and things

Activity 19 Study this chart to make sentences of comparison.

Official Worlds 5 Tallest High-rise Buildings # 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Building Taipei 101 Petronas Tower 1 Petronas Tower 2 Sears Tower City Taipei Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Chicago Height 509 m 492 m 452 m 452 m 442 m Floors 101 101 88 88 108 Year 2004 2008 1998 1998 1974

Shanghai World Financial .. Shanghai

Emporis 2/2008.

Complete these sentences using the words in brackets in their appropriate forms. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. The Petronas Tower 1 is as the Petronas Tower 2. (old) The Petronas Tower 1 is as the Petronas Tower 2. (high) The Petronas Tower 1 has the same the Petronas Tower 2. (height) The Taipei 101 has floors as the Shanghai World Financial. (floors) The Petronas Tower 1 is than the Taipei 101. (old) The Shanghai World Financial has floors than the Petronas Tower 1. (many)
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The Taipei 101 was built than the Shanghai World Financial. (early) 8. The Taipei 101 is the building of all. (high) 9. The Shanghai World Financial is building of all. (new) 10. The Sears Tower was built the among those buildings. (early)

Activity 20 Write the comparative and superlative forms of these words.

Positive early easy faithful large much near patient satisfying well young Comparative Superlative

Activity 21 Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the words from activity 20.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Harry is taking an English course now. He can speak English _____________ than before. He is actually 35 years old, but he looks ___________. He is like a 20 years old man. As parts of English lesson, language function is ____________than grammar focus. As we know, a dove is ____________than any other birds. For most Indonesian, eating rice is ___________than eating bread. Mr. Anwar is really a good teacher. He is _________ than any other teachers. Husni often comes late to school. He wishes he lived ____________to school. Knowing that there are many students coming late, the teacher warns them to come ____________.

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9. The shoes are too small for me. I need a _________one. 10. I was surprised that the total of the bill is _______than we predict before.

Activity 22 Look at the example and make the similar sentences.

Example: work / fast A B 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. : Cant you work a bit faster than that? : No, I cant. Im working as fast as I can. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. speak / clearly play / well write / neatly stay up / late get up / early

drive / fast work / quickly dance / beautifully walk / quietly type / carefully

Activity 23 Complete these sentences with superlative forms.

Example : A : Its very long coral reef. B : Yes, its in the world. the longest coral reef 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. A : Hes very intelligent student. B : Right. Hes in the school. A : Hes very rich man. B : Yes, hes one of in Indonesia. A : Ive never met such a generous person as Bram. B : Bram is Ive ever met. A : Hes never got such a good mark. B : Its hes ever got. A : Was it a bad experience?. B : Yes, its in y life. A : Is he a very dangerous criminal? B : No, hes not in the country. A : Its a very valuable painting, I guess. B : true. Its in the gallery. A : Tom is a good player, isnt he? B : Youre right. He is in the team.
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Activity 24 Chose the right positive, comparative, or superlative forms to complete these paragraphs. Number one has been done for you.
Mr. Sukrisno and Mr. Suyanto differ from each other in some ways. Mr. Sukrisno is ...older... (1) and (2) than Mr. Suyanto. He is (3) and he gets things done (4) than Mr. Suyanto does. On the other hand, Mr. Suyanto is less busy than Mr. Sukrisno because he only keeps house and run a small business at home. Mr. Suyanto is much (5) in music. Mr. Sukrisno has children (6) as Mr. Suyanto does. Each has two. Mr. Sukrisnos children are Dhani and Dewi. Dhani is a vocational shool student and Dewi is a Junior High School student. Dhani is probably the (7) student in his class, but Dewi is not. Dhanis hobbies are (8) as Dewis but he gets (9) grades than she does. Mr. Suyantos children are Tini and Toni. Tini is (10) as Dhani but Toni is (11) than Dewi. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. (a) (a) (a) (a) (a) (a) (a) (a) (a) (a) (a) old taller more diligent quickly interested as many good similar good more intelligent lazier (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) older the tallest the most diligent more quickly more interested much many the best the same better as intelligent the laziest

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