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# 2.9.3 Understanding notices

## Activité 47

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Vocabulaire
un sac à dos | rucksack
accéder à | to enter
une poussette | a pushchair

Look at this notice inside the museum. Note which of the items in the table below are permitted and which are forbidden.

Lisez la notice et notez les actions autorisées et interdites.

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| Autorisé | Interdit
--- | --- | ---
Fumer |  |
Photos avec flash |  |
Poussettes |  |
Manger dans les salles du musée |  |
Sacs à dos |  |
Toucher aux oeuvres exposées |  |

### Answer

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| Autorisé | Interdit
--- | --- | ---
Fumer |  |
Photos avec flash |  |
Poussettes |  |
Manger dans les salles du musée |  |
Sacs à dos |  |
Toucher aux œuvres exposées |  |

## Activité 48

##

Vocabulaire
courir | to run

Create notices for display in a library by choosing from the forbidden or tolerated behaviours below.

Composez des affiches.

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Autorisé | Interdit
--- | ---
ll est permis de… | ll est interdit de…

### Answer

This is what you might have written. Don't forget to change the de into d′ in front of a vowel sound and, when speaking, to pronounce it as one word.

Notice

Dans la bibliothèque

ll est permis:

- de laisser les journaux sur les tables

- d'utiliser l'ordinateur

- d'utiliser la photocopieuse

Il est interdit:

- d'utiliser un téléphone portable

- de prendre des photos

- d'emporter les dictionnaires

- de courir

- de manger et boire

- de fumer

## Understanding what is not allowed

For the sake of brevity, public notices often show the adjective interdit following a noun referring to the forbidden activity.

##

Passage interdit | no way in
Sortie interdite | no exit
Photos interdites | no photos
Stationnement interdit | no parking
Téléphones portables interdits | no mobile phones

Note that the ending of interdit agrees with the gender and number of the accompanying noun. Notice how with plural nouns we add ‘es’ for feminine plural and ‘s’ for masculine plural to interdit.

Sometimes you will see the adjective accepté (dollars acceptés). This too agrees with the noun that precedes it.

## Activité 49

Using the word interdit write some notices to display in a theatre for what is not allowed. Use your dictionary to find the vocabulary you need.

Écrivez des notices pour un théâtre.

### Answer

Some notices you might have written:

- Photos interdites

- Entrée interdite

- Sortie interdite

- Jeans interdits

- Shorts interdits

- Boissons interdites

- Téléphones portables interdits

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