Speeding Ticket Or Warning

Driving Signs

CLB Level: 2/3
Essential Skills Focus: Document Use (Driver’s Handbook), Thinking Skills
Task: Refer to the Driver’s Handbook to identify signs. Students will look for patterns in the signs (i.e. color and shape). Students will role-play different scenarios of speed sign violations and determine if the offender should get a warning or a ticket
Purpose: Students will:
1Become familiar with road signs and their meanings. 2Examine reasons people give for speeding and determine if the driver should be ticketed or not.
3 Understand that speeding is never a good idea and even a warning should be a strong message to obey signs
Materials: Driver’s Handbook, 2 worksheets attached (answer key for worksheet 2 is also attached)
Learning Style: Auditory, visual
Time: 1.5 hours / Method:
1 Hand-out the Driver’s Handbook to students. Go for a walk in the neighbourhood with students. Look at road signs and cross-reference them in the Driver’s Handbook. Note the shape and color of the signs.
2 In the classroom, look at page 16 of the Driver’s Handbook. Engage the students in a dialogue around the shape and colors given to signs (ex. diamond shape signs warn you of a possible dangerous condition either on or near the roadway).
3 Distribute Page 2 (Understanding signs). Students refer to the Driver’s Handbook to record the color of the sign and the warning. The students can then write an appropriate rule on the sign.
4 Using a cluster/word web write the word: traffic violations on the board. Have students brainstorm different traffic violations (speeding, running red lights, not wearing a seatbelt, etc.) Discuss consequences for traffic violations (warning, ticket, loss of license, demerits, etc.).
5 Inform students that speeding is never a good idea, however, police may issue a warning instead of a ticket if there is a ‘somewhat’ legitimate reason for speeding or if the driver has a clear driving record up until that point.
6 With this focus on speeding, hand out a scenario to each student or a pair of students(Page 3). Make sure each student understands the content/vocabulary of his/her scenario.
7 Students take turns reading/re-telling their reason/excuse for speeding.
8 Inform students that speeding is never a good idea. However, police may issue a warning instead of a ticket if there is a ‘somewhat’ legitimate reason for speeding or if the driver has a clear driving record up until that point.
9 The class listens carefully to the reason and votes on what the police officer should do (give a warning or a ticket to the driver). There is a teacher’s answer key on Page 4.
Follow Up: Students can share their own reasons that they’ve used, or heard being used for speeding. Other students can comment if a ticket or a warning should be given.
Debrief/Transfer: Students can note/draw signs they see in
schools, workplaces and the community. They can bring these
drawings to class and find the similarities between what they
saw and what their peers saw. They can discuss where they saw
the sign and what it means. For ex. seeing a PPE sign at a
construction site in the neighbourhood.

Understanding Signs

Signs help indicate the rules of the road. As a driver, you are required to know them. The shapes and colours of signs enables you to identify them in darkness, fading light, fog, rain or snow.

Instructions:Turn to page 16 in your Driver’s Handbook

Write an appropriate word in each shape
Write which colour(s) the sign is
Write the warning associated with each shape/colour

Sign / What is the sign colour? / What is the warning?
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Reasons/Excuses for Speeding

1. I was clocked going 14 km over the speed limit. I was driving on Grant Ave. at 11:00 p.m. There wasn’t much traffic and the road conditions were fine. I was preoccupied by thinking about work the next day. I have never received a ticket before.

2. I was driving through a school zone at 8:45 a.m. The posted speed limit is 50km/hour. I was going 54 km/hour.

3. My friend was in labour. I had to get her to the hospital quickly. I was going 12km over the posted speed limit. I was paying careful attention while I was driving.

I was late for a movie with my friend. I didn’t want to miss the previews at the movie theatre. I was going 71km/hr in a 50km zone.

5. The light turned amber and I wanted to make it. I sped up to avoid the red light. The light turned red just before I entered the intersection. I got a ticket for speeding and for running a red light.

If the light turns amber before you reach the stop line, you must stop.

6 I was driving on the highway. I wanted to pass someone who was driving exactly 100km/hour. I was driving 105km/hr. I know that you usually won’t get ticketed if you stay under 108km/hr on the highway (if the road and weather conditions are good). I sped up to 112km/hr to pass the driver. I had every intention of slowing down to 105km/hr after I passed the driver.

7I was running late for work. I will get docked pay if I am late. I was traveling 80km/hour in a 50km/zone.

Speeding Ticket or Warning?Answer Key

Should the driver get a speeding ticket in these scenarios, or should they receive a warning? You decide.

Warning

2. I was driving through a school zone at 8:45 a.m. The posted speed limit is 50km/hour. I was going 54 km/hour.

Ticket Since 1964, the law calls for reasonable and prudent speed in a school zone. Even though the maximum is 50km/hr, the driver should’ve gone slower.

3. My friend was in labour. I had to get her to the hospital quickly. I was going 12km over the posted speed limit. I was paying careful attention while I was driving.

Warning

I was late for a movie with my friend. I didn’t want to miss the previews at the movie theatre. I was going 71km/hr in a 50km zone.

Ticket

TicketIf the light turns amber before you reach the stop line, you must stop.

6. I was driving on the highway. I wanted to pass someone who was driving exactly 100km/hour. I was driving 105km/hr. I know that you usually won’t get ticketed if you stay under 108km/hr on the highway (if the road and weather conditions are good). I sped up to 112km/hr to pass the driver. I had every intention of slowing down to 105km/hr after I passed the driver.

Warning

I was running late for work. I will get docked pay if I am late. I was traveling 80km/hour in a 50km/zone. Ticket (driving too fast)

2. I was driving through a school zone at 8:45 a.m. The posted speed limit is 50km/hour. I was going 54 km/hour.

3. My friend was in labour. I had to get her to the hospital quickly. I was going 12km over the posted speed limit. I was paying careful attention while I was driving.

I was late for a movie with my friend. I didn’t want to miss the previews at the movie theatre. I was going 71km/hr in a 50km zone.

If the light turns amber before you reach the stop line, you must stop.

8I was running late for work. I will get docked pay if I am late. I was traveling 80km/hour in a 50km/zone.

WinnipegSchool Division Adult EAL Program Essential Skill Focus: Document Use / Thinking Skills

Author: Dayna Graham CLB level: 2/3