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Vocabulary notes

Coat of arm – герб, щит герба

Grave risk – большой, высокий риск 2) наиболее вероятный ( человек, ранее судимый и подозреваемый в повторном совершении преступления )

Hulk – большое неповоротливое судно

Reading Comprehension

Exercises

  1. Scanning.

1. Read the text. It is already divided into the parts.

2. Write out the main ideas of each part in one sentence or word combination in a form of a plan for the future retelling.

  1. Skimming.

Find in the text the information about:

1. Sir Winston Churchill’s warning;

2. witches, witchcraft and witch-finders;

3. famous executioners; what famous executioner Jack Ketch was famous for;

4. the wages of executioners;

5. children, sentenced to death;

6. what London Bridge was used as;

7. about people who were killed for their religious beliefs;

8. the fate of John Kemble;

9. benefit of the clergy;

10. Lord Byron, a great uncle of the poet;

11. the greatest escape of all time;

12. hulks;

13. dungeons;.

14. Elizabeth Fry, one of the noted reformers;

15. transportation abroad ;

16. reluctance of America to accept transported convicts;

17. penal servitude;

18. pillory;

19. ducking stool.

Vocabulary Work

Exercises

I. Suggest Russian equivalents of the following expressions and use them in sentences of your own based on the text.

1. innocent; 2. confess; 3. ensure; 4. loss of liberty; 5. transportation; 6. grip of superstitions; 7. dispatch; 8. to be tried; 9. offend; 10. condemned; 11. Benefit of the clergy; 12. scot-free; 13. abolish; 14. dungeon; 15. plea; 16. penal servitude; 17. associated labour; 18. impose; 19. plot;

II. Suggest English equivalents of the following expressions and use them in sentences of your own based on the text.

1. обвинение; 2. нести наказание; 3.смертная казнь; 4. тюремное заключение; 5. телесное наказание; 6. защита ссылкой на невменяемость; 7. убийство; 8. государственная измена; 9. заговорщик; 10. непредумышленное убийство; 11. оправдать; 12. налагать наказание; 13. отбывать наказание по приговору; 14. депортировать, высылать; 15. одиночное заключение; 16. освобождение по специальному разрешению, лицензии; 17. лжесвидетельство;

III. Match the expressions on the left (A) with their proper translation on the right (B).

A

  1. culprit

  2. confess

  3. associated labour

  4. pillory

  5. acquit

  6. excess

  7. neglect

  8. penal servitude

  9. separate confinement

  10. impose

B

    1. оправдывать

    2. позорный столб

    3. нарушение закона, произвол

    4. обвиняемый

    5. обобществленный труд

    6. игнорирование, пренебрежение

    7. каторжные работы

    8. одиночное заключение

    9. наложить наказание

    10. признаваться

IV. Guess the concept of the following definitions.

1. Discharge completely (as from an obligation or an accusation).

2. The voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath; false swearing.

3. Establish or apply by authority.

4. The act of killing, killing a great number of human beings.

5. Kill with quick efficiency.

V. Give definitions of these words. Use the dictionary. Suggest word combinations in which these words can be used.

1. plot (n); 2. plea (n); 3. abolish (v); 4. inflict (v); 5. mistreat (v);

VI. Match the words on the left (A) with their definitions on the right (B) and give their Russian equivalents.

A

B

1. be tried

a. condition of being forced to work for others and having no freedom.

2. life span

b. a stage of a penal servitude

3. grave risk

c. such killing when unlawful but without malice.

4. penal servitude

d. be brought before the trail.

5. felon’s death

e. the method of escape from the execution.

6. manslaughter

f. the form of punishment according to which a lot of prisoners were deported to America and Australia.

7. savoury

g. the situation when the attorney uses the fact that the offender is mentally deficient.

8. defence of insanity

h. change somebody’s appearance in order to deceive or to hide the identity of smb.

9. disguise

i. the most dangerous risk.

10. benefit of the clergy

j. a most harsh and atrocious execution.

11. separate confinement

k. it’s a period of time equal to the length of a human life.

12. transportation for life

l. very delicious, pleasing to taste or smell.

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