A symbol is something such as an object, picture, written word, sound, or particular mark that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention. For example, a red octagon may be a symbol for "STOP". On maps, crossed sabres may indicate a battlefield. Numerals are symbols for numbers or amounts. All language consists
Look at the symbols below and say what they represent:
Answers:
handicapped,
gay pride,
male,
poison,
recycle,
anarchy,
solidarity for HIV positive people living with AIDS
Vitruvian man symbolizes everything about Leonardo DaVinci’s calculated approach to both art and science and the beauty of the human form
peace
nuclear
no smoking area
justice
swastika - racism and the "white supremacy" of Neo-Nazis
medical.
I. Work in groups. Which symbol could represent the following ideas? Use your imagination.
Wealth
Slum
Hospital
School
Danger
Attention
Airport
Restaurant
Pet shop
Information
Democracy
Wireless Internet connection
II. Choose four of them and create posters with your own image. Make sure your friends will guess what it means from your drawings.
III. Share your posters with the class and let them guess what they represent.
IV. Watch the first segment from the movie The Da Vinci Code and answer the questions in pairs.
1. What does Professor Robert Langdon say about what symbols can help us understand?
2. What were both interpretations of the symbol he showed first?
3. What about the second symbol?
4. And the third one?
5. What message does he want to give with this presentation?
V. Watch now the second segment from the same movie and answer the questions in pairs.
1. What does the pentagon represent in this context of the segment?
2. What is your interpretation of the whole scene?
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The Da Vinci Code: Symbols
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