5-speed listening (Level 4)

Campaign to ban car hands-free phones

Slowest

Slower

Medium

Faster

Fastest


Try  Level 5  |  Level 6


MY e-BOOK
ESL resource book with copiable worksheets and handouts - 1,000 Ideas and Activities for Language Teachers / English teachers
See a sample

This useful resource has hundreds of ideas, activity templates, reproducible activities for …

  • warm-ups
  • pre-reading and listening
  • while-reading and listening
  • post-reading and listening
  • using headlines
  • working with words
  • moving from text to speech
  • role plays,
  • task-based activities
  • discussions and debates
and a whole lot more.

More Listening

Spelling  |  Dictation


 READING:

There is a big road-safety campaign in Britain to ban hands-free mobile phones. The charity Brake also wants drivers to switch off phones while driving. It said fines for calling or texting should also be increased by up to tenfold because the current fine is not stopping people. Brake said 575,000 drivers had been caught using their phone. It added that nowadays, being constantly connected is the norm and people "find it hard to switch off, even for a minute".

Britain's government said road safety was a "top priority", but had "no plans to change the law". It added it always made sure penalties were "appropriate". Brake said that while phones were useful, they were also dangerous as drivers could not focus on driving. This puts motorists and other road users in danger. It said most people would never drink and drive, but do not understand that calling or texting while driving can be just as hazardous.

Higher Levels

Try higher levels. The listening is a little longer, with more vocabulary.

Level 5  |  Level 6

All Levels

This page has all the levels, listening and reading for this lesson.

← Back to the hands-free phones  lesson.

Online Activities

Read
Grammar
Spell
Words
Print

Help Support This Web Site

  • Please consider helping Breaking News English.com

Sean Banville's Book

Thank You