Presentation on laws for pre-intermediate students of English

1. a. What is a law?
b. Who makes laws?
c. Give examples of laws that affect your life every day.

2. A law is needed to prohibit/to allow ….
The law would involve a penalty for…
The penalty would be …. dollars/rubles
not wearing a helmet while riding a bike
toy guns that look like real guns
schools to do random drug testing
throwing litter on streets
Think of the laws that might be made.
Example:
A law is needed to prohibit minibuses without passenger seatbelts.
The law would involve penalty for not having passenger seatbelts. The penalty would be 100 000 rubles.

3. Give reasons to make (not to make) these laws. Complete the sentences using the texts.
- 12-year-old boy was killed by a police officer. The boy
had been playing with a toy gun as he walked along a
street. The police thought it was a real gun.
- Toy guns help kids to learn and foster their
development.
- A criminal might scare people with a toy gun.
It is a bad idea/a good idea because….
A law is needed to prohibit shops to sell toy guns
that look like real guns
A law is needed to legalize random drug tests in
schools
A law is needed to prohibit not wearing a helmet
while driving a bicycle
- It should be personal choice if people want to wear a
helmet or not.
- Deaths and head injuries among cyclists in Australis fell
by 45% in the year after the law was introduced.
- Cycle helmets prevent injuries and save lives.
-In a study of U.S. high school students, it was found that
kids in schools with random drug testing did not
experiment with alcohol or marijuana more often than in
other schools.
-It can identify teens who have started using drugs
and help them at an early stage of addiction.
-Drug testing breaks our natural rights.

4. Who will be affected by law and how? Use the example to make sentences
Seatbelt law
Helmet law
Toy gun law
Street littering law
Drug testing law
buy a helmet
sell toy guns that don’t look real
buy and fix seatbelts
use a trash can
provide urine or blood sample
If the seatbelt law is passed minibus drivers will have to buy and fix seatbelts
shop owners
minibus drivers
cyclists
drivers
school kids

5. Think how will these laws be enforced?
Complete the sentences using the example.
a minibus has no
passenger seatbelts
a cyclist is not wearing
a helmet
a shops sells
toy guns that look
like real
a driver has thrown
litter on the street
a student refuses to take
A drug test
If a student refuses to take drug tests he will be suspended from classes.
If government officers find that …. the mini bus driver will ….
If government officers find that …. the shop owner will …. .
If the police see that ….. the driver will …..
If the police see that ….. the cyclist will …..
pay a penalty (fine)

6. I'd like to make a law that…
The law would involve a penalty for…
I think that is a good idea because …
I think this law is a bad idea because…
Who will be affected by the law?
How will it be enforced?
Choose a bill (idea for law), take the role of a lawmaker and opponent and debate over it.
After the debate, let the other students vote for or against the bill.
Passenger seatbelts
in minibuses
Helmets for
cyclists
Toy guns
shouldn’t
look like real
Big penalties
for littering
Drug testing
in schools
For lawmakers For opponents

7. - Research the issue. Find out as much information as possible.
- Check to see if there are any current laws that cover the issue you are writing about.
- Look into the potential benefits the bill would provide, if passed.
- Find out also if the bill would cause problems to any groups of people.
- Write the proposal.
- At the beginning of the proposal, describe the issue.
- Discuss the benefits of the bill proposal and give examples.
- Think of the costs involved in the law and summarize the main points and benefits
of the law.
Home task.
Propose a bill and write your proposal in the blog.