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Aim. To think about the Chinese proverb: ‘A picture paints 1000 words’. To find out if a picture or a symbol really can tell us a lot about something?. Guess the Symbol Quiz. Can you work out the company or brand from looking at their symbol?. 1). Sony Playstation. 2). MSN Messenger.
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Aim To think about the Chinese proverb: ‘A picture paints 1000 words’. To find out if a picture or a symbol really can tell us a lot about something?
Guess the Symbol Quiz Can you work out the company or brand from looking at their symbol?
1) Sony Playstation 2) MSN Messenger
3) Ferrari 4) Starbucks
5) Pepsi 6) Cadbury
7) Cardiff City F.C. 8) Mercedes Benz
9) HMV 10) MySpace
11) Puma 12) Shell
13) Big Brother 14) Hello Kitty
15) Apple 16) Wikipedia
17) Disney 18) McDonalds
19) Nike 20) Vodafone
21) Dreamworks 22) The Labour Party
'Just a Minute' Game Look at these symbols, they all represent world-famous companies… 3 2 4 1 • Your challenge is to play the ‘Just a Minute’ game! • You need to: • Choose one of these symbols. • Talk about what the symbol represents (the brand, the company, why it’s such a successful symbol) for a minute, without repeating yourself, hesitating or going off the subject. • It’s more difficult than it seems! • The person who can talk for the longest is the winner!
Discuss... Look at the symbols around this page & as a class discuss this question… Why are symbols important to big companies? What do symbols tell us about the companies?
Brainstorm... • Below are two symbols that represent you… • What symbols are they? • Look at each symbol & on your worksheets write down all of the things that each one makes you think of. Can we think of any ideas as a class?
What do you think? Do you think that a picture or a symbol can tell us a lot about something? Do you think the Chinese proverb, ‘A picture paints 1000 words’ is true? Think about what you’ve learnt in today’s lesson to answer these questions.