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Cell Phones While Cell Phones While Driving? Driving? Do you talk or text on your cell phone while you are driving? Have you ever talked or texted on your cell phone while you were driving? http://www.englishcafe.com/blog/using-cell-phones-while-driving- 34659

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Page 1: Cell Phones While Driving

Cell Phones While

Cell Phones While

Driving?Driving?

Do you talk or text on your cell phone while you are driving?

Have you ever talked or texted on your cell phone while you were driving?

http://www.englishcafe.com/blog/using-cell-phones-while-driving-34659

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Questions, questions, questions! Questions, questions, questions!

Do you agree that cell phone use (all cell phone use) should be banned while one is driving?

Why or why not?

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Questions, questions, questions! Questions, questions, questions!

Do you agree that cell phone texting should be banned while one is driving?

Why or why not?

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Questions, questions, questions! Questions, questions, questions!

If laws are passed that ban cell phone use in some way (while driving), what should the punishment be if one is caught disobeying the law?

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Questions, questions, questions! Questions, questions, questions!

Who should be accountable if laws are in place but cell phone use while driving continues (as is a reality in many places)? How should that accountability be enforced?

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Questions, questions, questions! Questions, questions, questions!

Who should enforce that accountability? And how?

Example: If your answer is that the police department is accountable, what penalty or change will you impose if police are not successful in reducing cell phone usage?

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Questions, questions, questions! Questions, questions, questions!

Imagine this:You receive a phone call from your mother.

She’s at the police station.She’s been arrested for talking on her cell phone while driving (she was involved in a minor traffic accident).

What is your reaction?

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Questions, questions, questions! Questions, questions, questions!

Imagine the same situation, but this time it is your mother’s second offense, and:

The police have taken away her license for six months!

What is your reaction? What impact will this have on your family?

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Questions, questions, questions! Questions, questions, questions!

Imagine a similar situation, but this time it is YOU that has been arrested!

The police have fined you $1,000 and added 4 points to your record (which means MUCH higher insurance costs)

What is your reaction? What impact will this have on your life?

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Questions, questions, questions!Questions, questions, questions!

If your employer told you that a new policy meant that you could lose your job if you were caught texting while driving, would you consider that fair?

Why or why not?

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Alternate Alternate strategies? strategies?

Ideas? Ideas?

What do YOU suggest?

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