1. Road Safety Our ideas and initiatives
USPU, Yekaterinburg, Russia

2. Our Ideas

3. We - the students of the international language club “Wonderful World” (USPU, Yekaterinburg, Russia) guided the development of the project devoted to Road Safety with Yekaterinburg Access Program Students.

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6. By completeing the project activities we are able to:
identify safe and distracted walking behaviours
discuss the dangers of distracted driving and walking
track and evaluate their own behaviours as pedestrians and passengers

7. 10 (combined ESL and Safety Road classes) were conducted to improve students risky behaviours. There were several stages:
Introduction and vocabulary work. The new vocabulary connected with the names of the traffic signs, road behaviour and action verbs was introduced.

8. Discussion. We were thinking where we walk (school, park, sidewalcks, etc).
Brainstorming. We explain how we understand the terms distracted walking and distracted driving.

9. Activities
We comprise the lists of safe and distracted behaviour, identify distractions.
Role-play the situations of risky behaviour from both parts pedestrians/passengers and drivers.
Play board games.
Watch presentations and have quizzes.

11. Our Initiatives

12. We decide that road safety depends on our own behaviour and offer:
To monitor our behavior when we go school, to ESL Classes and etc. for 7 days. We use a special chart where we tick if we walk on sidewalks or paths; look left, right and left again before crossing the street; follow traffic rules and signals and etc. We also tick if we look at phone while walking; ignore surroundings and etc.

13. Analize the results. Discuss and compare
Analize the results. Discuss and compare. Work in groups on the initiatives how to improve our behaviour.
Every student creates a coloured mini-book for his or her local school area with the tips and road plans for the classmates how to make their route to school safer. The mini-book includes: a collage, a plan, a poster with the tips and some extra info.

15. Road safety starts with monitoring your own behaviour.
Be attentive! Keep safe!
Stay smart!