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    The document is about the Traffic Light Man, an iconic symbol used in East Germany to direct pedestrian traffic. It describes a radio feature that discusses the creation of the Traffic Light Man's unique design in East Germany, the aims of clearly signaling walk and don't walk signals, and how it differed from designs in Western countries. The summary also mentions that the Traffic Light Man was nearly gone forever, but was preserved, and its design is now used on various commemorative items that have made it popular again.

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    The document is about the Traffic Light Man, an iconic symbol used in East Germany to direct pedestrian traffic. It describes a radio feature that discusses the creation of the Traffic Light Man's unique design in East Germany, the aims of clearly signaling walk and don't walk signals, and how it differed from designs in Western countries. The summary also mentions that the Traffic Light Man was nearly gone forever, but was preserved, and its design is now used on various commemorative items that have made it popular again.

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    Listening Activity The Traffic Light Man of East Germany

    Uploaded by

    Timothy Justin Francisco
    The document is about the Traffic Light Man, an iconic symbol used in East Germany to direct pedestrian traffic. It describes a radio feature that discusses the creation of the Traffic Light Man's unique design in East Germany, the aims of clearly signaling walk and don't walk signals, and how it differed from designs in Western countries. The summary also mentions that the Traffic Light Man was nearly gone forever, but was preserved, and its design is now used on various commemorative items that have made it popular again.

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    Listening Activity

    East German
    Symbol - The
    Traffic Light Man
    Euromaxx, Deutschewelle
    Listen to the feature about one of
    East Germany’s beloved traffic
    symbol and how people preserved
    it.
    Questions
    1. Who created the traffic light man design for East
    Germany?
    2. What is the aim of the creation of the The Traffic Light
    Man?
    3. What are the unique features of the traffic light man
    compared to the Western one?
    4. What threatened the East German traffic light man to be
    gone forever?
    Questions
    6. How was the traffic light man preserved?
    7. What items now use the Traffic Light Man?
    8. What made the East German Traffic Light man
    so popular to people nowadays?

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