Students, after listening to a selection of Gulliver's Travels, complete a worksheet about basic terms associated with boats, ships, and sailing. They create flag after researching semaphore flagging systems.

Learn about the Semaphore Flag Signalling System, the Semaphore Alphabet, the Alphabet flags and Numeric Pennants used by ships at sea.

Semaphore Flag signals and Morse Code are explained here. These are still part of the training in the Canadian Navy despite all the technology available today.