Reading: small signs and labels

Read a small sign

• Outcome: recognise a few short signs. Start with numbers zero to ten.
• These are classroom examples. Read the word and the place it belongs to; colour alone is not the answer.

Open and closed

• OPEN — open 开放. CLOSED — closed 不开放.
• Worked repair: if Room 2 says CLOSED, do not report Room 2: OPEN. The place is the same, but the status changed.

Push and pull

• Look at the picture in the matching task. Compare each arrow with the person.
• PUSH — push 推. PULL — pull 拉. In the picture, look at the arrow relative to the person.

Exit and quiet

• EXIT — a way out 出口. QUIET — quiet 安静.
• A way-out label and a request for quiet are different. Neither word gives a room number.

New signs

• Read each short English label beside the question. Keep each word with its own room or door.
• Choose before feedback. If two rooms have different signs, do not swap them.

Make a useful sign

• Read the new desk label. Then write a sign for open Room 4 before showing the model.
• Check number + status. You may use digits or the number word you learned.

Use the signs

• With a partner, make two paper door labels and point to one. Ask them which word it shows.
• Swap the labels and read again. This is supported reading practice, not evidence about listening or every real-world sign.

Review later

• Tomorrow, choose the pull word before looking back. Read a new paper label with a different room number.
• Next: ask for help.

Course note: these are original starter examples. Pre-A1 is an intended teaching target, not a validated placement result or complete level course. Council of Europe descriptor information checked 21 October 2026; it does not approve this local course. Independent language, answer, recording/accessibility and learner reviews remain pending.