IELTS Speaking Part 2: A New Law You Would Like to Introduce – Model Answers 2026

This is a new Part 2 topic in the official IELTS Speaking question bank for May–August 2026. You have one minute to prepare and two minutes to speak. Go straight into the law.

Cue Card

Describe a new law you would like to introduce in your country.

You should say:
– What law it is
– What changes this law brings
– Whether this new law will be popular
– How you came up with the new law
– And explain how you feel about this new law

Model Answer

The law I would introduce is a mandatory digital literacy curriculum in all schools from primary level through to secondary school completion.

The law would require every school, public and private, to include structured digital literacy education as a core subject with dedicated teaching hours. Not optional. Not delivered informally by a teacher who happens to know about technology. Formal, assessable, and age-appropriate. The curriculum would cover evaluating online sources for credibility, understanding how algorithms and social media platforms operate, recognising and avoiding online scams, understanding data privacy, and the responsibilities that come with communicating publicly online.

The changes this would bring in the short term are practical. Children would be better equipped to navigate the information environment they already live inside. In the medium term, the country would develop a population that is significantly harder to manipulate through misinformation. In the long term, it would produce a workforce with baseline digital competencies that employers currently spend significant money trying to train into people after they have already entered the job market.

Popularity would be mixed. Most parents would support it. Many teachers would support it. Some policymakers would resist it on the grounds of curriculum crowding, the argument that there is already too much required content and not enough time. That argument is real but the wrong way around. The question is not whether we can afford to teach digital literacy. It is whether we can afford not to.

I came to this position after reading about the scale of online fraud affecting young people in the UK and about the documented effects of unguided social media use on adolescent mental health. Both problems share a common cause. People using powerful tools they were never taught to use. The law would address that directly.

Why This Works

The answer introduces the law clearly, explains the changes at three time horizons (short, medium, long term), addresses the popularity question honestly including the opposition, and closes with the specific evidence that motivated it.

📌 Band 7-8 Vocabulary:
– mandatory — required by law or rules
– assessable — able to be formally evaluated or measured
– misinformation — false information spread regardless of intent
– baseline competencies — the minimum level of skills considered acceptable
– curriculum crowding — the problem of too many required subjects competing for limited time

IELTS Speaking Part 3: New Law Questions and Model Answers

Question 1: What rules should students follow at school?

Model Answer:
The most defensible rules are those that serve a clear purpose related to learning or safety. Punctuality requirements, academic integrity standards, codes of respectful behaviour toward other students and staff. These have obvious justification. Rules that are harder to defend are those that restrict personal expression without any clear benefit, rigid uniform policies enforced without exception regardless of context, or rules applied inconsistently in ways that reflect staff preference rather than institutional principle. In the UK, school uniform policies have been the subject of ongoing legal challenge precisely because the line between a rule that serves the institution and one that simply demands conformity is not always obvious.

Question 2: Do people in your country usually obey the law?

Model Answer:
Generally yes, with the compliance rate varying significantly by the type of law and the perceived fairness of its enforcement. Traffic laws in urban areas, particularly speed limits, are widely ignored in ways that are culturally normalised across most of the UK and US. Tax compliance is high where automatic deduction makes it unavoidable and lower where self-reporting is required. The most consistent predictor of law-abiding behaviour identified in criminology research is not the severity of the penalty but the perceived likelihood of getting caught. When enforcement is visible and consistent, compliance rises. When it is sporadic, people calculate accordingly.

Question 3: What kinds of behaviour are considered good behaviour?

Model Answer:
Reliability, honesty, and consideration for others are the qualities that appear across almost every cultural definition of good behaviour, which suggests they reflect something closer to universal values than culturally specific norms. In professional contexts in the UK and US, punctuality and transparency in communication are treated as baseline expectations rather than notable virtues. The bar for what constitutes exceptional behaviour shifts over time. Fifty years ago, returning a lost wallet was considered remarkable. In environments where everyone is assumed to be honest it becomes the expected baseline. Good behaviour tends to be invisible until it is absent.

Question 4: Do you think children can learn about the law outside of school?

Model Answer:
Yes, and they do, constantly, though not always accurately. Family conversations about fairness, rights, and consequences provide an early framework. Media, particularly the true crime genre which is enormously popular in the UK and US, exposes people to legal concepts through narrative rather than instruction. The problem with informal legal education is inconsistency. Children who grow up in households with high levels of legal literacy, typically correlating with education and income level, develop very different understandings of rights and processes than those who do not. Formal school-based legal education would reduce that gap. The UK introduced basic elements of citizenship education for this reason, though its implementation has been inconsistent.

Examiner Tips for IELTS Speaking Part 2 New Law

Tip 1: Explain the law at three levels.
Short, medium, and long-term changes show that you can think about policy consequences over time. That depth immediately signals Band 7 thinking.

Tip 2: Address the opposition honestly.
The curriculum crowding argument is real. Acknowledging it and explaining why you disagree is more sophisticated than pretending the objection does not exist.

Tip 3: For Part 3, use real examples.
UK uniform policy legal challenges, the true crime genre, UK citizenship education. Real and specific beats general every time.

Common Mistakes on This Topic

Choosing a law that is too vague to explain the specific changes it would bring
Failing to address whether the law would be popular
Part 3 answers that give only a personal opinion with no supporting example
Opening with “I would like to introduce a law that…”

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this a confirmed IELTS Speaking Part 2 topic for 2026?
Yes. A New Law You Would Like to Introduce appears in the official IELTS Speaking question bank for May–August 2026 as a new topic.

Does the law have to be realistic?
It should be plausible. An extreme or obviously unworkable law is harder to describe convincingly. Choose something that a reasonable person could support.

What if the law I choose is controversial?
Controversy is fine as long as you can explain both the case for it and the likely opposition clearly. That balance is what the examiner is listening for.