- •Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение
- •Введение
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •2. Give definitions of the following words:
- •3. Read the text and do the tasks.
- •4. Answer the question about the British police.
- •5. Finish the following sentences, using tail questions.
- •6. Find equivalents to the following Russian words and phrases in the text above:
- •7. Read the interview with a police officer. Dramatize it. Then sum up the information you learnt from the interview about the British police.
- •9. Master your vocabulary in the topic “Crime and Criminals”
- •10. Read the text and explain why a police officer has to ‘caution’ the person who is being arrested.
- •11. Complete the article with words from the box.
- •12. Match the words in bold in the previous task to the definitions 1-7.
- •13. Use the words from the box in the text:
- •14. Read the newspaper article below and think of a headline for it. Answer the questions:
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •2. Read the following verbs:
- •15. Make a survey of the crimes and court cases that are reported in the news in one week.
- •16. Read the conversation between Nancy Bryant, a fraud prevention officer, and a journalist. Answer the questions:
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •2. Explain what the following words and expressions mean:
- •5. Find in the text above the English equivalents for the following words and expressions:
- •6. Fill in the gaps in the text below with the words and expressions from the box:
- •7. Fill in the gaps in the sentences using the sentences below the text.
- •9. Use one word in each gap. You’ve been framed!
- •11 Points
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- •12 Points
- •6 Points
- •5 Points
- •Vocabulary
- •10. Match each of the following verbs with a word or phrase on the right. They are all connected with a British court of law.
- •11. Interview your partner using the questions below:
- •12. Read the text below and think of the word which fits best for each gap. Use only one word in each gap.
- •13. Read the text below and decide which answer (a, b, c, or d) best fits each gap.
- •14. Study the authentic cases given below. Discuss each in pairs and decide the following:
- •15. People say that children today are growing up more quickly. The law sometimes makes this possible. Look at the information below. How these laws are different in Russia?
- •16. Read the article and complete it with the words from the box.
- •17. Translate into English.
- •18. Translate into English.
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Which of the actions or procedures above are carried out by each of the following people?
- •2 . Match each word below with the definition.
- •7. Complete these sentences using the pairs from the exercise above. You may have to make changes to fit the grammar of the sentences. The first one has been made for you as an example.
- •8. Put each of the words in the box in its correct place in the passage below:
- •10 Read the four articles below.
- •11. Work in pairs. Discuss these questions.
- •13 Work in pairs. Read the information below and decide how much money the woman should receive.
- •14. Why do you think people commit crimes? Discuss the problem of the causes of crime.
- •15. Discuss these questions:
- •17. Read the newspaper extract below, and discuss the question that follows.
- •Vocabulary
- •4. Fill in the gaps.
- •5. Translate from Russian into English.
- •6. Complete the following text using the words from the box:
- •7. Translate into English.
- •8. Discuss the items below:
- •9. Translate into English.
- •10. What is your opinion about the trial jury?
- •Grammar
- •8 Points
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- •7 Points
- •8 Points
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- •12 Points
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Before you read the text discuss the following points:
- •2. Read the text.
- •2. Find in the text above the English equivalents for the following words and expression:
- •3. Write out all kinds of punishments from the text and put them in order from the most serious ones to the lightest.
- •4. Answer the questions about the text:
- •5. Match to make sentences.
- •6. A. Use a word in each gap to complete the text.
- •7. Use one word in each gap.
- •8. Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits in the gap.
- •9. Read the text below and think of the word which fits best in each gap. Use only one word in each gap.
- •Identity theft
- •10. Translate the following text into English:
- •11. Discuss the following issues:
- •12. Read the following text.
- •Vocabulary
- •3. Answer the following questions:
- •4. Find English equivalents for the following words and phrases in the text:
- •5. Match the following English expressions with their Russian equivalents:
- •6. Translate the following text into English:
- •7. Study the following phrasal verbs:
- •Vocabulary
- •3. Which sentences are true and which ones are false?
- •4. Complete the sentences.
- •5. Match the verbs with the nouns. Use the phrases in the sentences of your own:
- •10. Translate into English.
- •11. Read the following newspaper stories. How do you feel when you read them? Work in groups. Discuss each case in turn.
- •Grammar
- •Infinitive. Complex Object. Complex Subject.
- •15 Points
- •Insert the words from the box:
- •10 Points
- •Vocabulary
- •6. Below are the main areas of commercial law. Match each branch to the contents it covers. The first one is done for you.
- •Vocabulary
- •5. Say whether the statements are true or false.
- •7. Translate into English.
- •8. Read the text ‘Women in Politics’ and answer the questions:
- •9. Speak on the topic “Law of property, natural resources and the environment”.
- •Victims of oil shortage.
- •It’s an ill wind…
- •13. A) Work in pairs. Take it in turns to react to the statements below. Use the expressions for expressing opinion from the previous exercise.
- •Vocabulary
- •4. Are these statements true or false?
- •6. Find the best equivalent for the words below.
- •7. Give the English equivalents for the following:
- •8. Work in pairs. Which of the following freedoms is the most important to you? Why?
- •9. Choose the correct word to complete sentences. How strongly do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
- •It happened on December 1
- •12. Read the text below and answer the question: what does the law of your country guarantee to disabled people? What is the attitude to people with limited abilities?
- •13. Translate into English.
- •14. Read the text below and discuss with your class mates how much privacy we have these days.
- •10 Points
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- •7 Points
- •Основная литература
11. Work in pairs. Discuss these questions.
Do you think that Mrs. Joel was right to sue the theme park? Why or why not?
For what reasons do people sue in your country?
Can you think of any recent examples?
12. All five articles you have just read were reported in the newspapers of the United States. Later it was discovered that one of the stories was untrue. Which one, do you think? Explain your reasons.
13 Work in pairs. Read the information below and decide how much money the woman should receive.
A woman went to a fast-food restaurant and bought a cup of coffee. She placed the cup between her knees and as she was taking the lid off the cup of coffee to add cream and sugar, she spilled the coffee, which burnt her legs. She decided to sue the restaurant and she found a lawyer who agreed to help her. 31
Compare your ideas and explain your reasons. Now read the continuation of the story.
This was not the first time that the company had received complaints about their hot coffee. Company documents showed that they had received at least 700 complaints in the previous ten years. In some of these cases, the company had made the settlement with the plaintiff before the case went to court. In one case (of a woman who suffered similar burns), the company paid $230,000.
Can you suppose what will the woman get? Now read the continuation of the story.
The restaurant’s coffee was served at 82.2 C, which is more than 10% hotter than some other restaurants. According to one of the company’s executives, the company knew that the coffee sometimes caused serious burns. However, the company decided not to warn customers about the danger and did not plan to change the way it served coffee.
A few days before the case began in court, the judge asked the company and the woman’s lawyer to come to a meeting. At the meeting the judge said that he thought the restaurant should pay $225,000. However, the company continued to deny responsibility, arguing that the woman shouldn’t have put the coffee between her legs and claimed that the injuries were more serious because she was old.32
What do you think will be the decision of the judge? Read the continuation of the story.
The woman was 79 years old and the burns were extremely serious. She needed to spend seven days in hospital. Apparently, she only decided to sue the company when they refused to pay $800 for her medical bills.
Now read the continuation of the story.
After seven days of listening to the evidence, the jury decided that the restaurant was responsible. The jury decided that the company should pay $160,000 in compensatory damages and an additional $2.7 million in punitive damages. The trial judge later reduced the amount of punitive damages to $480,000.
Do you think the decision of the court was fair?
14. Why do you think people commit crimes? Discuss the problem of the causes of crime.
There have been many theories explaining why people commit crimes. The earliest explanations were based on theology and ethics. They stated that criminals were perverse people who committed crimes on the instigation of the devil. Biological theories spoke about inborn hereditary criminal proclivities. The French political philosopher Montesquieu put forward a climatic theory explaining crime by increase of barometric pressure, humidity and temperature. Social theories see causes of crime in social environment and social problems. There are also psychological theories which find that criminals are psychotic, neurotic and mentally unstable people.
Discuss in groups why teenagers begin to commit crimes. There are some ideas from which you can choose what seems appropriate:
bad friends;
bad upbringing;
influence of the street;
violence on TV;
social problems.
After the discussion in groups a representative from each group speaks before the class.
Discuss the measures that can be taken to reduce the level of crime among teenagers.