{"id":2019,"date":"2017-03-21T17:12:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T17:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2017-03-21T17:12:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T17:12:30","slug":"dealing-with-the-traffic-cop-english-speaking-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/dealing-with-the-traffic-cop-english-speaking-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with the traffic cop | English speaking lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing you should typically do when a traffic cop signals you to stop is to acknowledge the command promptly. Signal that you are going to stop and do so as soon as you can safely manage it.<\/p>\n<p>Once the officer reaches your car window, be prepared to present all the necessary documents including your driving license, proof of insurance card, and the car&#8217;s registration.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few questions you might be asked.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you know why I pulled you over?<\/li>\n<li>Why have you left your lights on?<\/li>\n<li>Have you passed any driving test?<\/li>\n<li>Could I see your driving license?<\/li>\n<li>Do you know what speed you were doing?<\/li>\n<li>Do you know you have exceeded the speed limits?<\/li>\n<li>Could I see your insurance documents?<\/li>\n<li>Have you had anything to drink?<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t you know you shouldn\u2019t drive when you\u2019re drunk?<\/li>\n<li>Could you blow into this tube, please?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Conversation<\/h2>\n<p><strong>You ran through the stop sign.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Storyline: John ran through the stop sign and was caught by the police officer&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">John: Why did you stop me, Sir? Did I do anything wrong?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Officer: Don\u2019t you know? You ran through the stop sign. It\u2019s a violation of the traffic rules. May I see your driver license, please?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">John: Oh, I\u2019m sorry. I didn\u2019t see the stop sign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Officer: That\u2019s not a valid excuse. May I see your license, please?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing you should typically do when a traffic cop signals you to stop is to acknowledge the command promptly. Signal that you are going to stop and do so as soon as&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[189],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","tag-english-speaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}