Let's Learn English! Topic: Signs! 🛑🚧🚸 (Lesson Only)

30,377 views ・ 2022-11-06

Learn English with Bob the Canadian


Please double-click on the English subtitles below to play the video.

00:00
Well hello and welcome to this English lesson about signs. Now
0
0
4761
00:04
before you think this is going to be a lesson about street
1
4761
3760
00:08
signs it's more than that. It's definitely about all of the
2
8521
4840
00:13
signs or most of the signs that you would see if you were in a
3
13361
4800
00:18
public place. So this is a great English lesson to watch
4
18161
3840
00:22
before you travel to an English speaking country. Because I
5
22001
3760
00:25
will talk a little bit about street signs like this stop
6
25761
3000
00:28
sign here but I'll also talk about signs you would see in a
7
28761
3480
00:32
restaurant maybe at a park maybe when you go for a walk
8
32241
4340
00:36
with friends in an English speaking country you will see
9
36581
3040
00:39
signs like this. So once again welcome to this English lesson
10
39621
4400
00:44
about signs. Keep off the grass. This is one of my
11
44021
4160
00:48
favourite signs. And this is a sign that people who have a
12
48181
4600
00:52
really nice lawn. People who have really nice grass growing
13
52781
4040
00:56
in front of their house. Did you hear that? That was a okay
14
56821
4920
01:01
a bird just flew into the window. I hope it's okay. I'm
15
61741
2400
01:04
not sure if you heard that sound. Um I hope it's okay. Um
16
64141
4740
01:08
anyways when you have a really nice lawn you don't necessarily
17
68881
4560
01:13
want people to walk on it. Usually grouchy old men put
18
73441
4520
01:17
signs up like this in my opinion. But if you live in
19
77961
3080
01:21
town if you live in a city and you have a really nice lawn you
20
81041
3920
01:24
might put up a sign that says keep off the grass. Which
21
84961
3880
01:28
simply means don't walk on my lawn. If you could please stay
22
88841
4880
01:33
on the sidewalk I would appreciate it. And then of we
23
93721
3800
01:37
have standard signs like the stop sign. A stop sign is
24
97521
4760
01:42
fairly universal around the world. Um most people when they
25
102281
4440
01:46
see this sign with its eight sides it's an octagon they know
26
106721
5320
01:52
with a red octagon even if it didn't have the word stop I
27
112041
4360
01:56
think many of us would recognize that this sign means
28
116401
3840
02:00
if you're driving your car stop driving your car at least for a
29
120241
4280
02:04
little bit. We also use this to tell people to stop doing other
30
124521
4220
02:08
things. There's a little stop sign on the door of my school
31
128741
3600
02:12
and it says stop. Do you have any of the following symptoms?
32
132341
3800
02:16
And then it asks you if you have any of the you know cough,
33
136141
3360
02:19
cold symptoms. So a stop sign can mean stop your car. It can
34
139501
5440
02:24
also mean that you should stop and do something before you
35
144941
3440
02:28
enter a building. We of course have speed limit signs. In
36
148381
4320
02:32
Canada we use the metric system. When I leave my house
37
152701
3820
02:36
I'm allowed to drive 80 kilometres an hour. When I get
38
156521
3400
02:39
to the town where I work I need to slow down and drive 50
39
159921
3880
02:43
kilometres an hour. It's important that you know what
40
163801
2920
02:46
the speed limit is when you're driving a car. In Canada you're
41
166721
4880
02:51
kind of allowed to go above the speed limit a little bit.
42
171601
3680
02:55
You're not really allowed but I'll just say this. I usually
43
175281
3680
02:58
drive about eighty-five maybe even 90 kilometres an hour in
44
178961
4200
03:03
an 80 zone. And in a 50 zone I often drive fifty maybe 55
45
183161
5060
03:08
never any faster because I don't want to be unsafe. I
46
188221
4320
03:12
don't want to speed in town where there might be people
47
192541
3680
03:16
walking or little kids playing. When you're in a restaurant or
48
196221
5240
03:21
maybe when you are in a store you might need to go to the
49
201461
3880
03:25
bathroom. You might need to use the restroom. In Canada we
50
205341
4120
03:29
often say washroom as well. But this sign that you see here is
51
209461
5400
03:34
a fairly normal sign that you will see. If you are looking
52
214861
3080
03:37
for a place to go to the bathroom. Um if you Don't know
53
217941
3740
03:41
where the bathrooms are you can always ask. Uh and someone will
54
221681
3520
03:45
usually point to a sign like this that says restroom. Or it
55
225201
3320
03:48
might just have the figures on it indicating who's allowed to
56
228521
3280
03:51
use which bathroom. But definitely if you're at an
57
231801
3600
03:55
airport or in the mall or at a store or in a restaurant if you
58
235401
5520
04:00
need to go to the restroom or use the washroom or use the
59
240921
3440
04:04
bathroom. Whichever word you want to use. Um that's the sign
60
244361
4480
04:08
you would look for. Sometimes at school the caretaker the
61
248841
6200
04:15
janitor mops the floor. And the floor is a little bit wet. And
62
255041
4920
04:19
that can be dangerous. So they put out this sign. Caution. Wet
63
259961
4200
04:24
floor. So when I'm walking down the hallway. If I see this sign
64
264161
4040
04:28
I know I shouldn't run. You're not supposed to run anyways. Um
65
268201
4720
04:32
you might see a sign like this at a mall. Very common to see a
66
272921
4040
04:36
sign like this after people clean an area up. There was a
67
276961
4760
04:41
sign like this in the grocery store the other day because
68
281721
2800
04:44
someone dropped something and the bottle shattered on the
69
284521
4200
04:48
floor and then they came and cleaned it up and mopped it and
70
288721
3520
04:52
then they left this sign their caution wet floor. The reason
71
292241
3920
04:56
you put this sign up is because you don't want people to slip.
72
296161
3720
04:59
You don't want people to slip and fall if the floor is a
73
299881
4040
05:03
little bit wet. Then of course we have the do not enter sign.
74
303921
5740
05:09
This is similar to keep off the grass a little bit. It means
75
309661
4520
05:14
that you should not enter whatever building you are in
76
314181
3880
05:18
front of. So if you're walking along and you see a sign that
77
318061
3560
05:21
says do not enter. You should probably not enter. It might be
78
321621
4680
05:26
dangerous if you enter. It might just be a place where
79
326301
3480
05:29
people don't want you to enter. But often you will see a sign
80
329781
4240
05:34
like this. Maybe if you're in the mall and there is a store
81
334021
4940
05:38
that's being renovated. So the store is closed and they're
82
338961
4760
05:43
changing the store fixing up the store for it to be
83
343721
3160
05:46
something else. There might be a sign that says caution do not
84
346881
4200
05:51
enter because they don't want you to come in. They don't want
85
351081
3720
05:54
you to enter the store. When I walk along the road there are
86
354801
5760
06:00
what are called hydro poles in Canada. Um you might call them
87
360561
4000
06:04
telephone poles. You might call them utility poles. But they
88
364561
3400
06:07
all have a little sign on them that says danger. High voltage.
89
367961
4240
06:12
And then on mine it actually says do not climb. So don't
90
372201
4240
06:16
climb. Um when something is dangerous we put a sign on it
91
376441
4400
06:20
indicating that it's dangerous. Danger. High voltage. Um you
92
380841
4560
06:25
might have a storage cabinet on a farm that has chemicals in
93
385401
3920
06:29
it. And it might say danger. Chemical storage. So whenever
94
389321
3760
06:33
something is dangerous when something can harm you we often
95
393081
5160
06:38
put a sign on it that says danger. And then we why it is
96
398241
5120
06:43
dangerous. So generally anything that has a lot of
97
403361
3360
06:46
electricity will have a sign that says danger high voltage.
98
406721
5680
06:52
This sign is very common in Canada. In my part of Ontario
99
412401
4400
06:56
you really can't smoke anywhere. It's rare for you to
100
416801
3600
07:00
be able to find a place to smoke. So we have a lot of no
101
420401
3400
07:03
smoking signs. You'll have these in restaurants. You'll
102
423801
3440
07:07
have these at the mall. You'll have these in stores. In Canada
103
427241
3800
07:11
you cannot smoke in public places. Even outside of some of
104
431041
5280
07:16
our buildings. People are not allowed to smoke right by the
105
436321
3840
07:20
door. So in Canada sometimes you can smoke away from the
106
440161
4920
07:25
door of a building outside but close to the entrance and exit.
107
445081
4800
07:29
There's often no smoking signs as well. Um because well it's
108
449881
5720
07:35
kind of bad for you. I know some of you may be smokers but
109
455601
3960
07:39
it is not healthy. Just just so you know. I know you know that.
110
459561
5400
07:44
We also have what's called a caution sign. So when something
111
464961
4320
07:49
is dangerous like electricity we have a danger sign when
112
469281
4640
07:53
something could be dangerous. When you could slip and fall.
113
473921
4540
07:58
When you could trip by the way trip is when you're walking and
114
478461
3440
08:01
then you you walk into something and you trip. Um so
115
481901
3440
08:05
you might see this when you're getting onto the subway. There
116
485341
4760
08:10
might be a little sign on the floor that says caution watch
117
490101
3440
08:13
your step. You might have this on the bottom step of a of a
118
493541
5920
08:19
stairs. Where it just says caution watch your step. And
119
499461
3080
08:22
yellow is a very common colour to use for caution signs. Um so
120
502541
4960
08:27
caution. So again the difference if it says danger
121
507501
4840
08:32
it's a little more serious. Danger means if you go in here
122
512341
3880
08:36
you will probably be injured or something bad will happen.
123
516221
3440
08:39
Caution means be aware. Be careful because the situation
124
519661
5600
08:45
might be a little bit dangerous. And then here's
125
525261
4980
08:50
another road sign construction ahead. This is very common in
126
530241
5000
08:55
Canada in the summer. A lot of road work happens in the
127
535241
3920
08:59
summer. So when you're driving along you'll see orange signs
128
539161
3680
09:02
with an arrow that mean if you could please slow down because
129
542841
4920
09:07
there are people working ahead to improve the road or fix the
130
547761
4000
09:11
road or fix a bridge or install a installing a stoplight
131
551761
5480
09:17
whenever you see a construction ahead sign. You should slow You
132
557241
5500
09:22
should be aware of what's happening and you should look
133
562741
3080
09:25
for some kind of construction in the next few kilometers. Or
134
565821
5000
09:30
miles if you use miles in your country. And then this is
135
570821
5900
09:36
similar to the keep off the grass sign. No trespassing. If
136
576721
4560
09:41
you own a store or a building in Canada. And you have a
137
581281
5640
09:46
problem with people coming on your property at night. You
138
586921
3120
09:50
might put up signs like this. Private property. That means
139
590041
3880
09:53
it's not public property. It's not a park. It's not a parking
140
593921
6200
10:00
lot. It's private property. You own it. So you do not want
141
600121
4500
10:04
anyone to walk on your property. So you add no
142
604621
3160
10:07
trespassing trespassing is when you walk across someone else's
143
607781
5040
10:12
property. If you walked on my farm without my permission you
144
612821
5480
10:18
would be trespassing. Whenever you walk on someone else's
145
618301
4240
10:22
property in Canada you have to ask for permission. You don't
146
622541
3480
10:26
need permission to go to the park. You don't need permission
147
626021
3280
10:29
to go to the mall. You don't need permission to go to what
148
629301
3440
10:32
we call public places. But you can't just walk on someone's
149
632741
4280
10:37
private property. And if you do they might eventually put up
150
637021
3480
10:40
signs that say no trespassing. Watch your step. I think did I
151
640501
5560
10:46
have the caution watch your step? I did. This is common
152
646061
3560
10:49
when you're getting on an elevator. If the elevator
153
649621
3720
10:53
sometimes doesn't line up even when the doors open. There
154
653341
4800
10:58
might be a sign there. I was in a really old hotel once. And
155
658141
3880
11:02
when the elevator stopped it was always a little bit lower
156
662021
3860
11:05
than the floor and they their fix was they put stickers that
157
665881
4720
11:10
said watch your step. You might also see this when you get onto
158
670601
3760
11:14
a bus or onto when you get on the subway. You might see this
159
674361
4360
11:18
as well. Watch your step. So be careful because you don't want
160
678721
4200
11:22
to trip and fall. Remember tripping is when you walk into
161
682921
4040
11:26
something. Slipping is when you go like this. Like it's
162
686961
4080
11:31
slippery. Uh another street sign sometimes when you're
163
691041
4760
11:35
driving the road you can drive way and if you turn around you
164
695801
4720
11:40
can drive the other way. There's a yellow line down the
165
700521
2560
11:43
middle. But sometimes it is a one way street. Um sorry I
166
703081
4800
11:47
should have used the word street earlier. There's noone
167
707881
2400
11:50
way roads really. They're almost always called one way
168
710281
2800
11:53
streets. And that means you can only drive in one direction. Um
169
713081
5040
11:58
are there one way roads? I'm not sure actually. I should
170
718121
3720
12:01
find out. Let me check for a sec. Now let me I'm not
171
721841
2920
12:04
going to worry about it. No littering. This is one of my
172
724761
4720
12:09
pet peeves. I don't like it when people throw garbage on
173
729481
3800
12:13
the ground. I don't like it when they throw trash on the
174
733281
2600
12:15
ground. Often when I go to the park in spite of the fact that
175
735881
5360
12:21
the park has lots of signs like this that say no littering. And
176
741241
4480
12:25
most parks in Canada have lots of garbage cans and recycle
177
745721
4920
12:30
bins. People still just throw stuff on the ground. So this is
178
750641
3600
12:34
a sign that says don't throw your garbage on the ground. No
179
754241
4200
12:38
littering. Please keep the Nice for everyone. You might see
180
758441
4900
12:43
this in other places as well but it's probably most common
181
763341
4320
12:47
in a place like a park. Um I haven't seen this sign for a
182
767661
5600
12:53
while. But some businesses sometimes they have a sign that
183
773261
3840
12:57
says no shirt. No shoes. No service. And this means that if
184
777101
5840
13:02
you're just wearing a pair of shorts and you don't have
185
782941
3720
13:06
anything on your feet. Um you're walking around in bare
186
786661
3120
13:09
feet and you Don't have any shoes on and you don't have a
187
789781
3800
13:13
shirt on they are not going to sell you anything. Some
188
793581
3720
13:17
restaurants like it that people have a shirt and shoes on when
189
797301
3560
13:20
they come in. Uh shoes probably because that's just healthier
190
800861
4360
13:25
and more sanitary. But you might see this in a place.
191
805221
3720
13:28
Basically if you are just walking around and all you're
192
808941
3080
13:32
wearing is pants they're not going to sell you anything if
193
812021
2920
13:34
you go to that place. Uh honestly I haven't seen this
194
814941
3120
13:38
sign for a while. I wonder if they've disappear now but this
195
818061
3660
13:41
used to be pretty common. Some people love dogs and some
196
821721
5900
13:47
people don't like dogs and some people don't like dogs in
197
827621
4120
13:51
certain places. So last night I actually was at a park and the
198
831741
5200
13:56
park had an area called a leash free area where dogs were
199
836941
4880
14:01
allowed to run around. But then I had another area where there
200
841821
3640
14:05
was a sign that said no dogs allowed. So when you see a sign
201
845461
4000
14:09
that says no dogs allowed it means it's not permitted. I we
202
849461
6240
14:15
seen this sign a couple times now. I think it was in the
203
855701
3160
14:18
previous one as well. The red circle with the line through
204
858861
3720
14:22
it. I think everyone is aware this is the sign the symbol
205
862581
4000
14:26
that means something is not allowed. It's forbidden. So if
206
866581
3560
14:30
you see something like that with a cell phone in it it
207
870141
3240
14:33
means you can't use your phone. If you see it with a dog in it
208
873381
2920
14:36
it means no dogs are allowed. You may not bring your dog to
209
876301
3800
14:40
this place. Have you ever been somewhere where you needed to I
210
880101
6180
14:46
don't know renew your driver's license or maybe you've gone to
211
886281
5860
14:52
the doctor's office and you don't have an appointment.
212
892141
3160
14:55
There are places where it says take a number. And they'll have
213
895301
3720
14:59
a little device where you can pull a number out. We actually
214
899021
3440
15:02
have this in our grocery store if you go to buy meat from the
215
902461
4720
15:07
butcher section. You need to take a number. And then when
216
907181
3880
15:11
they call your number or when your number shows up on a
217
911061
3360
15:14
screen. It's your turn to be served. So sometimes if you go
218
914421
4800
15:19
somewhere that's really busy. I know we definitely these if I
219
919221
3980
15:23
go to renew my driver's license now I normally just do it
220
923201
3840
15:27
online now but if I went in person to the place to do that
221
927041
5120
15:32
I would probably have to take a number and then wait until they
222
932161
3800
15:35
call my number or my number shows up on a screen and then
223
935961
3400
15:39
it is my turn We have a number of what I call at your own risk
224
939361
7340
15:46
signs. When you do something at your own risk it means you're
225
946701
4080
15:50
deciding to do something dangerous and noone is going to
226
950781
4960
15:55
be there to help you. So when you go hiking you might hike on
227
955741
4600
16:00
a trail and it'll say use this trail at your own risk. That
228
960341
4240
16:04
means there's there's no fence there's nothing stopping you
229
964581
4040
16:08
from falling. Um so be very careful. There are some pool
230
968621
4540
16:13
that do not have lifeguards. And so they'll have a sign.
231
973161
3320
16:16
There's no lifeguard on duty. There is no person here who's
232
976481
4640
16:21
going to save you. So swim at your own risk. So when you do
233
981121
4160
16:25
something at your own risk. You are taking responsibility for
234
985281
5640
16:30
the dangerous or slightly dangerous thing that you are
235
990921
3320
16:34
doing. Hopefully that made sense. Um we do have these on
236
994241
3480
16:37
hiking trails. There are some pools etcetera etcetera. Um no
237
997721
6180
16:43
parking anytime. These are very common signs and I have kind of
238
1003901
4640
16:48
a funny story about this. We went for a hike two weeks ago
239
1008541
4960
16:53
and there were a lot of people parked in the parking lot and
240
1013501
4520
16:58
there were no more spaces in the parking lot. So I parked on
241
1018021
4160
17:02
the street and I failed to notice that there was a no
242
1022181
3840
17:06
parking sign. And when I got back from the hike I had a
243
1026021
3600
17:09
thirty dollar parking ticket. Because I didn't see the sign.
244
1029621
4120
17:13
So if you see a sign that says no parking. Two things. One
245
1033741
4000
17:17
don't park there. And two if you do you will probably get a
246
1037741
4240
17:21
parking ticket. $30. I paid it right away. You should always
247
1041981
4040
17:26
pay things like that right away because in Canada if you don't
248
1046021
3520
17:29
pay your parking ticket eventually you can't renew your
249
1049541
3920
17:33
driver's license. They'll say oh you have an outstanding
250
1053461
3000
17:36
parking ticket sir. You must pay that before you can renew
251
1056461
3520
17:39
your license. This is another street sign if you ever see an
252
1059981
4320
17:44
H in a blue square at least in my part of the world. It means
253
1064301
3560
17:47
there is a hospital ahead. It means you're either at the
254
1067861
4040
17:51
hospital or you're driving in the right direction to find the
255
1071901
3600
17:55
hospital. So the blue square with the H in it means if you
256
1075501
4600
18:00
are maybe you've hurt yourself and you're in a strange town.
257
1080101
4520
18:04
If you see these you're you're going the right direction to
258
1084621
3680
18:08
find the hospital that you want to go to. So in Canada Uh let
259
1088301
8220
18:16
me get this. In Canada there are many places that have
260
1096521
3960
18:20
cameras. And if they have cameras to prevent theft or to
261
1100481
5000
18:25
prevent vandalism. Vandalism is when someone damages a building
262
1105481
4480
18:29
or something. Um they will put up cameras so that they can
263
1109961
4440
18:34
record it but they might also put up signs that say you know
264
1114401
3920
18:38
parking lot under video surveillance. Security notice.
265
1118321
3400
18:41
Because cameras do two things. When you put up a Camera it
266
1121721
5460
18:47
prevents crime. When a criminal or someone who's going to do
267
1127181
4600
18:51
something sees a camera they might decide not to do it. So
268
1131781
3600
18:55
it's very preventative. And it also records what's happening.
269
1135381
4040
18:59
So it's nice to let people know because then they might not do
270
1139421
5000
19:04
the bad thing they were thinking of doing. So video
271
1144421
3080
19:07
surveillance signs are pretty common. You might also see
272
1147501
4640
19:12
safety first signs. These are very common in places where
273
1152141
4320
19:16
something could be dangerous. So for instance you can see
274
1156461
3800
19:20
here hearing protection required in this area. Often in
275
1160261
4680
19:24
a factory when you walk into a factory there will be signs
276
1164941
4360
19:29
that say safety first hard hat required or ear protection
277
1169301
5160
19:34
required or safety goggles required or safety glasses. Um
278
1174461
5560
19:40
because they know that there is the potential that something
279
1180021
5320
19:45
bad could happen. It usually doesn't but if everyone wears
280
1185341
4280
19:49
their protective gear it's less likely to happen. So yes
281
1189621
6320
19:55
definitely when you are usually like in a workshop or at a
282
1195941
5040
20:00
factory you will see signs that say safety first. We also have
283
1200981
6560
20:07
just general warning signs. So similar to danger and caution.
284
1207541
5160
20:12
I would say warning and caution are very similar. They're just
285
1212701
3720
20:16
saying don't whatever it says below read it carefully. So
286
1216421
6520
20:22
this one happens to say warning. Restricted area entry
287
1222941
3520
20:26
forbidden behind this point. So what they're basically warning
288
1226461
3720
20:30
you about is that if you go into that area the police might
289
1230181
4720
20:34
come and arrest you. Or someone might a security guard might
290
1234901
4600
20:39
escort you off of the premises. Lot of big words there. But a
291
1239501
4560
20:44
warning is usually information about an area or a thing. Um
292
1244061
6680
20:50
you might even have a warning sign on a piece of equipment.
293
1250741
3440
20:54
Warning. Do not operate this piece of equipment. Um without
294
1254181
5400
20:59
wearing safety goggles. There might be a warning. So it's
295
1259581
3600
21:03
basically it's the same as caution. It's telling you to be
296
1263181
3880
21:07
careful in a situation. And then of course if you are in a
297
1267061
5280
21:12
building with multiple stories so multiple floors You might
298
1272341
6080
21:18
have signs that tell you what to do in case of fire. If
299
1278421
3800
21:22
you're staying at a hotel it might say in case of fire exit
300
1282221
4520
21:26
from the south stairwell. In case of fire do not use the
301
1286741
4440
21:31
elevator. In case of fire break glass. Sometimes there's a fire
302
1291181
6160
21:37
extinguisher behind. I don't know if they have that anymore.
303
1297341
3160
21:40
In case of fire use south stairwell and exit the building
304
1300501
3600
21:44
calmly. Um so in case of fire simply tells you what to do in
305
1304101
4440
21:48
a building. If a Was to start. So a street sign. So I was
306
1308541
6640
21:55
saying that all street signs are green in Canada. I don't
307
1315181
2920
21:58
actually know but these are this is very common to see
308
1318101
2960
22:01
Smith Street and Cannon Street. A street sign is simply a sign
309
1321061
3880
22:04
that tells you the name of the street. Um sometimes it's hard
310
1324941
5760
22:10
to find them. And sometimes I think street signs are too
311
1330701
3520
22:14
small. They're hard to read. When something is hard to read
312
1334221
4680
22:18
it means you can't quite see the letters. Sometimes I'm
313
1338901
3000
22:21
driving and I can't see the street signs I don't know what
314
1341901
3860
22:25
the name of the street is. That can be a little bit
315
1345761
2440
22:28
frustrating. When you drive around as well you might see
316
1348201
4080
22:32
something that is for sale. Someone might have a sign in
317
1352281
2680
22:34
front of their house and we simply call it a for sale sign.
318
1354961
3480
22:38
Did you see that Jim's house has a for sale sign on the
319
1358441
3520
22:41
front lawn? He's selling his house. Or did you see that car?
320
1361961
4280
22:46
It had a for sale sign in the window. Some that car is for
321
1366241
3360
22:49
sale. So when you own something and you don't want it anymore
322
1369601
4160
22:53
and you want to sell it to someone else you might put a
323
1373761
3400
22:57
for sale sign on it. This is a very common type of sign. The
324
1377161
5420
23:02
open and closed sign. So when you go to a store hopefully it
325
1382581
4800
23:07
says open in the door or window and hopefully it doesn't say
326
1387381
3960
23:11
closed. When it says open obviously you can go in and buy
327
1391341
3720
23:15
stuff. When it says closed you have to wait until the next
328
1395061
3240
23:18
day. So often when people have a store not often I think all
329
1398301
4840
23:23
the time. If if you have a store you have a sign that says
330
1403141
4120
23:27
open or closed. So people know they can come and shop there.
331
1407261
6020
23:33
We also have signs made that we call neon signs. I was going to
332
1413281
5360
23:38
say they're made from they're not made from neon. They are
333
1418641
3160
23:41
made from bulbs that have neon gas in them and you can then
334
1421801
5000
23:46
form a sign that glows. A sign that is illuminated. A sign
335
1426801
4600
23:51
that gives off light and it's very very cool. Sometimes
336
1431401
3880
23:55
you'll see a neon sign in the window of a store advertising
337
1435281
3920
23:59
some this would maybe be in a restaurant or club and it's
338
1439201
3940
24:03
simply pointing to where the bathrooms are. It's probably in
339
1443141
4480
24:07
the UK though if it says toilets. We also have what's
340
1447621
4820
24:12
called a digital sign. So this is a sign where you can change
341
1452441
3920
24:16
what's on the sign. Often in front of Yeah our a fast food
342
1456361
8260
24:24
restaurant. The fast food restaurant in my local town has
343
1464621
3400
24:28
a digital sign. And the sign changes every few days.
344
1468021
3880
24:31
Sometimes it says buy two hamburgers today special buy
345
1471901
4160
24:36
two hamburgers for five dollars. Or it will say today
346
1476061
4440
24:40
chicken burgers on sale. A digital sign is something that
347
1480501
3600
24:44
can be changed and it will have a different message on it every
348
1484101
3880
24:47
day.
349
1487981
2320
24:51
Rules. So sometimes you'll go somewhere and there will be a
350
1491281
4540
24:55
sign that has rules on it. You might see this at a playground
351
1495821
3800
24:59
like this sign. It says basically it doesn't have the
352
1499621
3280
25:02
actual numbers but it tells you who's allowed to play there.
353
1502901
4240
25:07
You might go to a campground and there will be a sign that
354
1507141
2760
25:09
has rules. No fire no fire before 6 PM or no loud music
355
1509901
7080
25:16
after 10 PM. There will be rules. So whenever you go
356
1516981
3920
25:20
somewhere where people spend time to other. Um you might see
357
1520901
5640
25:26
a sign like this that has rules on it. Hey sometimes a store
358
1526541
5200
25:31
will put something out front called a sandwich board. This
359
1531741
3480
25:35
is a board that simply displays some information. It's another
360
1535221
4200
25:39
type of sign. So maybe you have a store that sells coffee and
361
1539421
4440
25:43
baked goods. You might put a sign out on the sidewalk every
362
1543861
3560
25:47
morning like this. You might put a sandwich board out that
363
1547421
2520
25:49
says that you're selling a new type of coffee that day. Or
364
1549941
5240
25:55
that if you are the age of sixty-5 coffee is 10% off today
365
1555181
5560
26:00
but a sandwich board is a way to tell people what you sell.
366
1560741
4120
26:04
We have a sandwich board that we put at the road when we sell
367
1564861
3360
26:08
flowers that just says flowers with a big arrow pointing
368
1568221
3680
26:11
towards our farm.
369
1571901
3280
26:16
Um you might be driving and you might be going past a school.
370
1576101
4940
26:21
Uh in most places when you drive past a school it's
371
1581041
3120
26:24
important to drive slowly because there are a lot of
372
1584161
2640
26:26
little kids around. And we would call it a school zone.
373
1586801
3400
26:30
It's not a good idea to speed in a school zone. Sometimes you
374
1590201
5280
26:35
get a bigger ticket if you are caught speeding in a school
375
1595481
3160
26:38
zone because we want school zones. We want the roads around
376
1598641
4200
26:42
our schools to be very very safe. We don't want people to
377
1602841
4520
26:47
speed because we don't Want anything bad to happen. So you
378
1607361
3600
26:50
will see a sign like this. School which means that you are
379
1610961
3360
26:54
in an area where you should drive slowly and watch out for
380
1614321
3960
26:58
little children. So there are a couple of different ways to
381
1618281
5300
27:03
find parking in a city. Um you can look for a circle a green
382
1623581
4760
27:08
circle with a P in it. It might be a blue circle with a P in
383
1628341
3800
27:12
it. It might be a blue square with a P in it. But generally
384
1632141
4600
27:16
if you are in a city and you need to park your car you want
385
1636741
3880
27:20
to find a parking lot. And often you will see signs with
386
1640621
3640
27:24
the letter P in it. In my part of the world usually green
387
1644261
3560
27:27
sometimes blue. Um and some parts of the world again it
388
1647821
4160
27:31
might be a square but you would use that to find a place where
389
1651981
3960
27:35
you can park. Um usually it costs money though. It's hard
390
1655941
4400
27:40
to find in a big Canadian city. It's hard to find a place to
391
1660341
4480
27:44
park that is free. So Let's see here. You might have a sign
392
1664821
9220
27:54
that says hazardous materials. Now this is another caution
393
1674041
3440
27:57
sign. Uh but you might have a sign that says you know
394
1677481
5480
28:02
hazardous materials don't enter here without protective gear or
395
1682961
4520
28:07
protective clothing. This would be rare. This would be like at
396
1687481
3440
28:10
a factory or something like that. Um but yeah it's just
397
1690921
5280
28:16
warning you that you should be careful and be aware of what
398
1696201
4400
28:20
danger lies ahead. You might have an informational sign. So
399
1700601
5340
28:25
there were a lot of these in the last couple of years. Um
400
1705941
3600
28:29
there still are a lot of these when you walk up to the front
401
1709541
3000
28:32
door of a store when I go to work at my school. There is an
402
1712541
4120
28:36
informational sign. And it says stop. Just like remember I said
403
1716661
3800
28:40
we use stop for a lot of things. Stop the spread of
404
1720461
2560
28:43
germs. And then it kind of tells you what to do to prevent
405
1723021
4200
28:47
the spread of disease. Um we we have one too that says stop. Do
406
1727221
5440
28:52
you have any of following symptoms. Uh fever, sore
407
1732661
4000
28:56
throat, headache, and it asks you all the question. It is an
408
1736661
3720
29:00
informational sign to find out. If you're feeling well. And
409
1740381
6780
29:07
then here is a really really big sign when you drive along a
410
1747161
4120
29:11
highway there might be a really really big sign that we call a
411
1751281
3800
29:15
billboard. A billboard is a sign that shows you that
412
1755081
3800
29:18
there's probably a restaurant ahead. That's usually what
413
1758881
3320
29:22
billboards are for. Uh and if you get off the highway you can
414
1762201
3640
29:25
go there and buy something. So a billboard it's probably the
415
1765841
4120
29:29
biggest type of sign that I know of a billboard. Gigantic.
416
1769961
4440
29:34
A gigantic sign.
417
1774401
3240
About this website

This site will introduce you to YouTube videos that are useful for learning English. You will see English lessons taught by top-notch teachers from around the world. Double-click on the English subtitles displayed on each video page to play the video from there. The subtitles scroll in sync with the video playback. If you have any comments or requests, please contact us using this contact form.

https://forms.gle/WvT1wiN1qDtmnspy7