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Can you work out what street signs in Spanish mean? This exercise will help you to revise the most important ones. It also gives you the chance to work through a typical exam question.
Spanish Signs
Here is an activity based on signs that you might see around a Spanish town.
Decide which sign you would need in each of the situations described. In the exam you would put a cross in one box only.
- Question
- You want to go to the police station. Which sign should you follow?
- Plaza Mayor
- Museo de Arte
- Comisaría
- Mercado
- You want to get to the centre of town. Which sign should you follow?
- Castillo
- Centro ciudad
- Centro comercial
- Catedral
- You're at the station and you want to go to the ticket office. Which place should you go to?
- Consigna
- Sala de espera
- Oficina de objectos perdidos
- Despacho de billetes
- You want to buy a roll. Which shop should you go to?
- Panadería
- Pastelería
- Verdulería
- Pescadería
- You want to buy a costume doll for your mother. Which of these signs in the shopping area should you follow?
- Tienda de discos
- Tienda de comestibles
- Tienda de ropa
- Tienda de recuerdos
- You want to go to the police station. Which sign should you follow?
- Answer
- The police station is the Comisaría.
- The centre of town is the Centro ciudad.
- The ticket office is the Despacho de billetes.
- You would buy a roll in the Panadería.
- You would buy a costume doll in the Tienda de recuerdos.
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