Allow and prohibit – B1

According to you, what is the most dangerous between a gun and a kinder egg? Do you think Winnie the pooh is something like a sexual pervert?

Whatever your answer may be, you are probably wrong, because what you think is just your point of view and everybody is entitled to its own.

Anyway, in the following article from “the Telegraph” you can observe different verbs in their contexts to express what is not allowed to do in several countries all around the world. It may be a funny way to improve your vocabulary.

From Kinder Eggs to Claire Danes: the strangest things banned around the world

A playground in the small Polish town of Tuszyn took the bold step to ban Winnie the Pooh in 2014, citing the bear's "dubious sexuality" and "inappropriate dress" (no trousers) as cause for concern. Perhaps they should think about putting up tigger warnings...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk

Useful vocabulary

Allow (to): to give permission to someone to do something.

Eg: In Texas it is allowed to carry a gun in a supermarket.

Ban (to): to prohibit an action or forbid the use of something, especially by law or social pressure.

Eg: Kinder eggs are banned in America because they are dangerous for American children.

Forbid (to): to command someone not to do something.

Eg: In Icelandic swimming pools, it’s forbidden to dry your privates with the hair dryer.

Icelandic pool bars men from using hair dryers on their privates

Notice was put up at Sundhollin pool, in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik Swimmers had complained some men were using devices to dry privates Disgruntled visitor wrote an article under title: 'This is not a scrotum dryer' An Icelandic swimming pool has been forced to put up signs forbidding men from using hair dryers on their privates.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk

Prohibit (to): to forbid by law or authority.

Eg: In Poland, it is prohibited for bears to appear half naked in a children playground.