- •Module 1 Lawyer is My Future Profession
- •A Lawyer
- •2. Suggest the English for:
- •3. Find in the text the synonyms to the following words and phrases:
- •4. Match two parts of the sentences in two columns:
- •5. Find twelve words to the topic and make up sentences:
- •6. Finish the following statements using appropriate words and word combinations:
- •7. Answer the following questions:
- •8. Look through the first and the fourth passages again and say why the profession of a lawyer is popular but difficult.
- •9. Look through the fourth and the fifth passage again and say why it is interesting but difficult to study at the law faculty.
- •10. Your friend wants to know your opinion about choosing a law career. Tell him why you want to be a lawyer and where you are going to work. Dialogue1
- •III. Make up your own dialogue according to the following situation:
- •Police Academy in New York
- •I. Read the sentences and say if the statements are true or false giving a right variant:
- •Top 10 qualities of a great lawyer
- •Text 1 The Constitution of the usa
- •1. Give English equivalents of the following:
- •2. Suggest the English for:
- •3. Match two parts of the sentences.
- •Dialogue1
- •Text 2 The Russian Constitution
- •Module 3
- •Political System of the usa
- •Give English equivalents of the following:
- •Suggest the Russian for:
- •Match two parts of the sentences in two columns.
- •Finish the following statements using the appropriate words and word combinations:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Look through the text again and say about the legislative, executive and judicial branches.
- •The system of Checks and Balances
- •Match the following English expressions to their Russian equivalents:
- •2. Replace the words and expressions in bold type with words and expressions that mean the same.
- •2. Use the expressions above (from the exercise 1) to make sentences of your own.
- •3. Answer the question:
- •4. Discuss the following questions:
- •Congress
- •Complete the following text by translating the words or expressions in brackets.
- •Match the legal terms on the left with their definitions on the right. Use them in sentences of your own.
- •Answer the questions:
- •Explain the meanings of the following words and expressions from the text. Make up questions with each of them.
- •Complete the following text by translating the words and expressions in brackets.
- •Do you agree with these statements?
- •Answer the questions.
- •Federal Departments
- •The Federal Judiciary
- •Read the dialogue between British politician and a Russian student and say who has real power in Britain.
- •Act out the dialogue
- •Make up your own dialogue according to the following situation:
- •The Royal Family
- •Political Parties
- •Elections
- •The Election Timetable
- •Political System of Russia
- •Text 5 Elections in Russia
- •Module 3
- •Lawmaking Process in Britain
- •Read the text and say what happens to a bill if the president rejects it Lawmaking Process in the usa
- •Lawmaking process in Russia.
- •Module 4
- •The Court System of England and Wales
- •The Court System of the usa
- •Give Russian equivalents of the following:
- •Suggest the English for:
- •3. Match two parts of the sentences in two columns:
- •4. Answer the following questions:
- •5. Tell your partner about the differences in the court systems of the us and gb.
- •Types of Legal Professions
- •1. Choose the correct definition for each legal profession mentioned in the text:
- •2. Tell your partner about the main types of legal professions in gb. Which one would you choose to work as? Why?
- •Solicitors and Barristers
- •International law
- •The Notion of International Law
- •2. Suggest the English for:
- •4. Answer the following questions:
- •The Domains and Sources of International Law Domains of International Law
- •International humanitarian law or law of war
- •Sources of International Law
- •What Does an International Lawyer Do?
- •Different Types of Intergovernmental Organizations
- •Interview with Robert l. Gallucci, Dean of the Edmund a. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University, January 31, 2007
- •Reading supplement
- •I. Reading for pleasure caught in his own trap
- •The monkey detective
- •A strange sentence
- •How I lost my lighter
- •All the truth and nothing but the truth
- •Interview techniques
- •Curious wills
- •Tom sawyer testifies (After Mark Twain)
- •The hound of the baskervilles (After Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
- •Tuan syed
- •The tell-tale heart (By Edgar Allan Poe)
- •Poems about lawyers and law an abc for lawyers
- •Nursery rhyme
- •The lawyers' ways (By Paul Laurence Dunbar)
- •Reading for purpose top law schools in the united states
- •Top russian law schools
- •1. Brief Introduction to the Russian Legal Education System
- •3. Top Russian Law Schools (of)
- •3.2 Top Law Schools and Academic Institutions (which offer only postgraduate programs)
- •3.3. Top Law Schools of Regional Universities
- •Llm (master of laws) in the united states
- •Is justice greedy?
- •The changing face of the monarchy
- •Public sentiments in great britain
- •Internationalizing legal systems
- •Different types of international lawyers ( By Jessica Ellis)
- •What are transnational crimes? (By Christopher John)
- •What is international business law?
- •The issues on capital punishment in the united states
- •What is an international criminal tribunal?
- •Legal fundamnetal documents the charter of liberties of henry I
- •The magna carta
- •Introductory Note
- •English bill of rights 1689 an act declaring the rights and liberties of the subject and settling the succession of the crown
- •The declaration of independence
- •The bill of rights
- •The constitution of the united states
- •The constitution of the russian federation
- •First Section. Main Provisions Chapter 1. The Fundamentals of the Constitutional System
- •The universal declaration of human rights preamble
- •Article 2.
- •Samples of some legal agreements and contracts employment agreement
- •Recitals
- •Real estate purchase agreement
- •Life insurance premium reimbursement agreement
- •Loan sale agreement
- •Article I definitions and interpretation
- •Article II sales of cef assets
- •Article III conditions precedent
- •Lease agreement
- •Assignment of leases and rents
- •Intellectual property rights agreement
- •Standart will
- •Article I
- •Article III
- •Article IV
- •Article V
- •Article VI
- •Real estate sale contract
- •Sale of real property
- •Grammar supplement
- •Grammar exercises
- •1.Артикли
- •2. Множественное число существительных
- •3.Местоимения
- •4.Прилагательные
- •5.Предлоги
- •6.Употребление времен
- •A Scary Night
- •The Cornfords
- •Paul Johnson
- •An Accident
- •Infinitive
- •1. Вставьте частицу to перед инфинитивом там, где необходимо.
- •2. Замените выделенные части предложений инфинитивными оборотами
- •3. Переведите на русский язык, обращая внимание на Active Infinitive и Passive Infinitive (a) и на Perfect Infinitive (b).
- •4. Раскройте скобки, употребляя требующуюся форму инфинитива.
- •5. Переведите на английский язык, употребляя требующуюся форму инфинитива.
- •1. Раскройте скобки, употребляя герундий в активной или пассивной форме.
- •2. Замените придаточные предложения герундиальными оборотами, вводя их, где необходимо, предлогами, данными в скобках после предложения.
- •3. Замените выделенные части предложений герундиальными оборотами, употребляя, где необходимо, соответствующие предлоги.
- •4. Переведите на русский язык, обращая внимание на разные формы герундия.
- •5. Переведите на английский язык, употребляя герундий.
- •Gerund or Infinitive
- •1. Make infinitives (with or without “to”) or gerunds (add “-ing”) of the verbs in brackets to make the following sentences grammatically correct.
- •2. Complete the following sentences with infinitives (add “to”) or gerunds (add “-ing”) of the verbs below to make them grammatically correct.
- •Participle
- •1. Переведите на русский язык, обращая внимание на причастия.
- •2. Замените придаточные определительные предложения причастными оборотами.
- •3. Замените придаточные предложения причины причастными оборотами.
- •4. Замените придаточные предложения времени причастными оборотами (не опускайте союз when).
- •5. Выберите из скобок требующуюся форму причастия.
- •Gerund or Participle
- •1.Расположите no порядку:
- •Modal Verbs
- •1. Переведите на русский язык.
- •2. Переведите на английский язык, употребляя модальный глагол саn (could).
- •3. Переведите на английский язык, употребляя выражение to be able to.
- •4. Перепишите следующие предложения, добавляя слова, данные в скобках. Замените модальный глагол can (could) выражением to be able to, где это необходимо.
- •1. Переведите на русский язык.
- •2. Переведите на английский язык, употребляя модальный глагол may.
- •3. Переведите на английский язык, употребляя выражение to be allowed to.
- •4. Вставьте модальный глагол may (might) или выражение to be allowed to. Вставляйте to be allowed to только в тех случаях, где may (might) употребить нельзя.
- •5. Вставьте модальные глаголы may или can.
- •6. Вставьте модальные глаголы may (might) или can (could).
- •7. Переведите на русский язык.
- •8. Перепишите следующие предложения в прошедшем времени.
- •9. Перепишите каждое из следующих предложений дважды: в прошедшем и в будущем времени. Заменяйте модальные глаголы must и саn эквивалентами, где необходимо.
- •10. Заполните пропуски модальными глаголами саn, may или must.
- •11. Переведите на английский язык, употребляя модальные глаголы must, may или саn.
- •12. Перефразируйте следующие предложения, употребляя модальный глагол to be to.
- •13. Вставьте to have to или to be tо.
- •14. Переведите на русский язык.
- •15. Вставьте модальные глаголы can, may, must или need.
- •16. Переведите на английский язык, употребляя модальные глаголы must, may, might или can't.
- •17. Дайте совет, используя модальный глагол should и слова, данные в скобках.
- •18. Переведите на русский язык.
- •19. Переведите на английский язык, употребляя модальный глагол should в сочетании с требующейся формой инфинитива (Indefinite Infinitive — Perfect Infinitive).
- •20. Вставьте подходящие модальные глаголы (must, may, can, need, to have to, to be able to).
- •List of the english irregular verbs
- •Сводная таблица употребления
- •Страдательный залог.
Is justice greedy?
It's hardly news that lawyers' fees are high! As the system's gatekeepers, lawyers place a charge on access to justice which is beyond the reach of many. Critics accuse lawyers of making legal services an expensive luxury, and they challenge lawyers to re-think the way their services are provided and priced. In particular, there is an idea to stop billing by the hour and start charging by the case. Another initiative is that there is a need for ceilings, instead of an open-sky practice.
Criticism of lawyers' fees is almost as old as the profession itself and the present situation are no worse than before. But public tolerance has changed. Imagine if airlines charged on the same basis as lawyers: an hourly fee, with no guarantees of any limit and the price escalating as delays, bad weather and mechanical failures occurred.
What is to be done? Can the profession set its own house in order? The problem is not so much high fees in themselves; there's nothing wrong with charging a rich tariff to those who can afford it. After all, it is said, lawyers are selling a valuable commodity and are entitled to expect top-dollar remuneration.
But lawyers, unlike bankers, are not just another sector of the business world. They have great sway over a legal system supposedly committed to social justice. And it is one of that system's virtues that justice is not for sale to the highest bidder. As long as lawyers are beyond the pocket of most citizens, it means social injustice!!!
Sadly, the legal profession too easily mistakes its own interests for those of the public. Allowing paralegals and others to offer more legal services might be a good start. A more practical, effective solution would be to let lawyers retain their monopoly, but only on the condition that they truly serve the public. This means that there must be more citizens and clients involved in running the profession, that lawyers must be answerable to someone other than themselves, that they should pay for their monopolistic privilege by contributing a share of their fees to funding legal services for poorer litigants, and that fees should be regulated for price as well as quality.
As long as access to justice depends on access to lawyers, society must oblige the legal profession to meet its public responsibilities – the leading one being that legal services must be genuinely available to all.
Allan C. Hutchinson, (teaches law at Osgoode Hall at York University)
The changing face of the monarchy
The royal family has undoubtedly learned the lessons of Diana, her direct physical approach to her public. The Queen smiles a great deal more in public than she used to do. Still she’s reluctant to the efforts of some recently appointed courtiers to mould her image and to make her a “touchy-feely” monarch.
In Britain the monarchy has not always been popular. For many years there were growing republican sentiments. During the reign of Elizabeth II the royal family has undergone considerable changes. The public has become much more informed about the lives of the royal family due to in-depth press coverage. Two of Queen Elizabeth's sons, Prince Charles and Prince Andrew, separated from their wives; both separations occurred amid a flurry of international news. These separations were surrounded by accusations of infidelity and along with the subsequent death of princess Diana damaged the reputation of the royal family. But The Queen seems to have succeeded in making up for all these bad moments.
The personality and family image of The Queen serve to remove the negative feeling. In 1992 The Queen and Prince Charles agreed to pay taxes on their personal income, the first time the monarchy has done so.
The Queen has always been a roving ambassador for Britain, and if we calculate the increase in trade after a royal visit abroad, the nation probably makes a profit from her activities, and that does not take into account the income from tourism in Britain generated by the monarchy and great state events such as royal weddings.
In the spring of 1997, Her Majesty Elizabeth II launched the first official royal Web site, with 150 pages of history, information, and trivia. There is a "visitor's page," where both fans and critics of the Crown can voice their opinions about the Web site, comment on matters such as Prince Charles's relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles, and express their grief over Diana's tragic death. The site includes colour pictures of royal residences, historical tidbits, and even details about royal finances. Buckingham Palace claims it's the royal family's way of "making the monarchy more accessible". (taken from http://www.just-english.ru/advanced.htm)