English для юристов. Гончар

Part ІI. BASIC COURSE

2.Compare four suspects: here are some adjectives about their ap pearance. Write at least ten sentences using the degrees of com parison of adjectives if possible.

Example: Mr. A is taller than Mr. B. Mr. C is the tallest of all/the three. Mr. A is not as (so) tall as Mr. C.

Height (tall/ short)

Face (round/ square)

Complexion (pale/ dark)

Chin (massive/thin)

Nose (prominent/ straight/ hooked)

Hair (fair/ dark)

Built (slim/ average/ stout/ slender)

3.Here are the beginnings and ends of some traditional expressions with as … as. See how many expressions you can put together correctly. Make up sentences with them.

Pronouns some/ any/ no

1.Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian and explain the use of some, any:

1.There is some interesting information in the newspaper. 2. If you have any information about the suspect, contact Sergeant Reeves immediately. 3. Some people don’t like police. 4. Please give me any information on this matter. 5. Do you have any friends in this town?

6.There aren’t any jokes in the «Gazette». 5. I don’t think we have any time left. 6. Please tell me any idea you have.

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2.Fill the blanks with some or any:

1.Do you learn…foreign languages? 2. Do you have ... any suspec5 ts? 3. Please take …magazine you like. 4. There aren’t any interesting articles in the newspaper. 5. Do you have…lawyers in the family? 6. There is …useful information in this document.

3.Translate the following sentences into English:

1.У мене немає жодної думки щодо злочину. 2. Цей підоз5 рюваний має риси злочинця: кругле обличчя, русяве волосся, прямий ніс, повні губи, борода? 3. У вас є питання? — Так, кілька.

4.Я дивлюсь газету і бачу, що тут немає цікавих статей. 5. Деякі з цих статей дуже важливі для роботи судді. 6. Він має якусь зброю?

The Present Perfect Tense

1.Make the following sentences interrogative and negative: Example: I have already told you the whole story! — Have you already told me the whole story? — I have not already told you the whole story!

1.I have already read all titles. 2. I have already questioned three witnesses but I haven’t got any useful information. 3. I have got some information about the suspect. 4. He has lived here all his life. 5. We have already arrested five Santas. 6. He has just disarmed him! 7. The police have found stolen things.

2.Put questions to the words in italics:

Example: The policeman hasn’t told the criminal of his right to remain silent or to have a lawyer present during questioning. — Who hasn’t policeman told of his right to remain silent or to have a lawyer present during questioning?

1.They have taken the suspect to the police station. 2. He has looked through all articles in the paper. 3. I have already discussed the matter with friends in the pub. 4. They have just left the house. 5. Mr. Wisdom has just telephoned and informed of another 2 suspects. 6. He has just become a «Neighbourhood Watch» member.

3.Read the situations and write sentences as in the example. Use these

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verbs:

lose break go up cut improve

Example: Mike is looking for her purse. He can’t find it and is very nervous. — He has lost it.

1.Margaret can’t walk and her leg is in plaster. It hurts very much.

2.Maria’s English wasn’t very good. Now it is much better. 3. Tim didn’t have a scar on his cheek last month. Now he has a scar. 4. This morning I was expecting a letter. Now I have it. 5. Last week the bus fine was 6$. Now it is 10$.

4.Translate the following sentences into English:

1.Ми вже прочитали про активіста Віздома. 2. Він затримав та роззброїв п’ятьох Санта Клаусів! 3. Він працює над цією справою вже три тижні. 4. Слідчий нарешті надав речові докази. 5. Вона вже розповіла про жарт у газеті. 6. Сержант Рівз вже зателефонував і розповів мені про справу.

Word formation

1.Say a) which parts of speech the following words are; b) from which parts of speech they are built:

headline, sadly, neighbourhood, watch, carefully, broadway, wan5 ted, unknown, to disappear, well5built, eyebrows, suspect, immediately, to disarm, activist, constitution, agreement, speaker, lawyer, illegal, homework, courtroom, newspaper, initiative, kingdom, criminal.

2.State the function and the meaning of prefixes, translate into Ukrainian:

a)unlawful, unmarried, injustice, improper, inadmissible, impos5 sible, irresponsible; b) discovery, to disclose, to disrespect, to misun5 derstand, to misuse, to misinform; c) to reread, to redirect, to over5 sleep, to overwork, to cooperate.

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Module 1 Unit 3

Text: Travelling to the UK

Vocabulary in use

Language focus:

The Present Perfect Continuous Tense

The Past Simple Tense

The Future Simple Tense

Pre reading tasks

1. A. Discuss the following questions:

a.Do you like travelling?

b.What means of transport do you prefer?

c.How often and where do you travel?

B. Which of the following statements attract you best of all?

1.Tourism is a waste of everybody’s time.

2.It is impossible to educate people to be good tourists.

3.Sightseeing makes us better people.

4.The best way to have a good rest is visiting the place where you haven’t been before.

5.The best way to travel is on foot, because it’s impossible to «feel» the place from a window.

6.I would be afraid of going to study abroad.

2.Match the following English words and expressions with their Ukrainian equivalents.

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Reading tasks

1.Read the text to understand what information is of primary importance or new for you:

Notes on the text:

Entry Clearance — дозвіл на в’їзд до країни officer — тут: службовець

Skycap porter: Skycaps provides portering at the UK’s foremost airports, Heathrow and Gatwick. Operating this service on behalf of BAA, Skycaps provides liveried porters for VIPs, commercially important people or celebrities, holiday tour operators and individual mem5 bers of the public. Skycaps provides up to 1200 portering movements a day between London’s two major airports. Skycaps provides a «Meet & Greet» service at both Heathrow and Gatwick Airports. Passengers arriving in the UK can either be met in the baggage reclaim hall or arrivals hall and escorted to their chosen mode of transport.

TRAVELLING TO THE UK

After you have made your decision to come to the UK to study you will need to make final arrangements, which will include, in most cases, obtaining a Visa. Apply for your visa as soon as possible — this procedure will take some time, especially during the summer months. Each year many students are unable to study in the UK because they did not leave enough time for visa applications.

The documents you need in order to enter the UK depend on your country of origin. It is important to find out whether you need permission to enter the UK as a student. The UK Visa web5site (http:/ /www.ukvisas.gov.uk) will tell you the current information about whether or not you need a visa to enter the UK and if so how to apply for one.

An entry clearance certificate (or a visa) is a sticker placed in your passport at your local UK visa office/British High Commission, British Embassy or Consulate and demonstrates that an entry clearance officer

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understood that the passport holder has the right to enter the UK for the purpose and the period stated on the certificate. If you hold a visa/ an entry clearance certificate your passage through immigration on arrival in the UK will normally be smooth.

There are two types of visa: multiple entry and single entry. Imagine that your course of study lasts six months or less: in this case you will be granted a maximum of six months’ permission to stay in the UK. If you know that you will want to travel out of the UK and return during this time (for a holiday for example), apply for a multiple entry visa before you leave for the UK.

You will to apply to the Entry Clearance Officer (ECO) or Visa Officer at your nearest British Embassy, High Commission or Con5 sulate and complete a special form. All the documents that you will produce to accompany this form must be originals. There is a charge for all types of entry clearance.

Whatever the type of entry clearance you require, the Entry Clearance Officer will usually ask you to complete an application form and will sometimes interview you.

When you arrive in the UK*, an immigration officer puts a stamp in your passport with the length of time you have permission (or «leave») to stay in the UK. Normally this is for one year, although it is possible for the Immigration Officer to give you permission to stay for up to three years.

Most of international students arrive at* one of London’s major i5 nternational airports, usually Heathrow, but if you travel from Europe, you will sometimes arrive at Gatwick.

Immigration Control. Gaining entry into the UK is a time consu5 ming process. After completing the necessary paperwork in immigrati5 on, passengers usually reach the Arrivals Lounge 40560 minutes after their flight has landed. Please ensure that all your necessary do5 cumentation is easily available. Signs indicate which Passport Control desk you will approach: either European Community Passport H5 olders, or Other Passport Holders. The Immigration Officer sometimes asks you some questions, but if you have all your documentation to hand, you will not have any difficulty. If you have problems with your English then you have the right to ask for an interpreter.

*Gr. note: to arrive in a country, city; to arrive at town, station, airport

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The stamp then entered on your passport will show that:

•you have entered the UK, on a specific date, for the purpose of full5time study;

•you have permission to stay a stated length of time;

•you are required to register with the Police, or not.

As a full5time student, you will normally get permission to remain in the UK for 12 months. If your course is longer than the period granted, then you will need to extend your stay later. If you get permission to stay for only a short period, it is likely that the Immigration Officer will ask you to provide further evidence to the UK Home Office, before you are given permission to remain in the UK for a longer period of time.

After you arrive in the UK it is important that you comply with the immigration rules, so that you can complete your course of study. The immigration officer may have put a stamp or sticker in your passport telling you that you are required to register with the police. If your husband, wife or child entered the UK with you, they sometimes have a similar stamp too. If this is the case, you will need to register with the police within 7 days of your arrival in the UK.

Going through Customs. After passing through Passport Control, you need to go to the Baggage Reclaim area. Free trolleys are available to make it easy to carry your luggage. At Heathrow and Gatwick airports blue5uniformed Skycaps porters are available to help you with your bags. There is a charge of Ј7 for up to 7 items of luggage for this service. They are normally around to help at Trolley Collection Point. It is possible to pre5book a Skycap Porter to help with your luggage. Again there is a charge for this service. Information they require includes your names, travel details and credit card number. They will give you a reference number, which you will need to tell the Porter who meets you at the luggage collection point.

After you have collected your luggage you need to go through the Customs Hall. There are three channels:

RED — Items to declare GREEN — Nothing to declare

BLUE — Arrival from a European Country

You should check before you leave home what can or cannot be brought into Britain. Such information is also available at British Embassies, High Commissions and Consulates abroad. If you are in any doubt you should take the RED channel and ask for advice. You may be asked to open your luggage for inspection in the Customs

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channel. If requested, you must open, unpack and repack your luggage.

In order to get to London use the underground service from Heathrow (Piccadilly Line from Terminal 1, 2 or 3, journey time — 40 minutes) or use the Gatwick Express Airport Rail Link (30 minutes). A taxi from Heathrow into London will cost from Ј40 and the journey time is about 60minutes. The taxi fare from Gatwick to London will cost from Ј55 and the journey takes 80 minutes.

2.In the text there are a lot of instructions how to avoid problems when traveling abroad. Underline all the information you didn’t know before reading the text. Write a plan of the text and share your knowledge with your friends following it.

3. Use a dictionary and give explanation for each of the following word combinations:

1)entry clearance;

2)British High Commission;

3)embassy;

4)consulate;

5)an entry clearance officer;

6)visa;

7)immigration Control;

8)multiple/ single entry;

9)UK Home Office;

10)customs.

4.PREPOSITIONS. Choose the right preposition in brackets accor

ding to the contents of the sentences (at, with, for, on, from, throu* gh, in, to, )

1.People smuggling illegal goods usually like to pass … customs in the middle of the queue.

2.The investigator arrived … the station just in time to catch the train.

3.I’m just going to San Francisco International Airport but my answer depends … when I’ll have a flight tomorrow.

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4.A strange woman entered … the room and closed the window.

5.If it is your first trip you should apply … Customs officers …the necessary instructions.

6.Has the immigration officer put the stamp … your passport?

7.When he arrived … Kharkiv, he asked the way … the National Law Academy.

8.When travelling be careful and comply … the rules!

9.After you have collected your luggage … the conveyor belt you need to go … the Customs Hall.

10.The taxi fare … Borispol …Kyiv is high enough.

5.Imagine that you are 2 passengers sitting next to each other on a long flight. Spend 2 or 3 minutes presenting some details about you. Be ready to ask him/ her questions about himself/ herself.

6.Some your English friends are planning to visit your city and surroundings in three month’s time what pieces of advice you would give to them. Find out the important information for traveling, use the text if necessary.

1.Do they need a visa?

2.What are the best souvenirs to buy/to bring?

3.What’s necessary to know in order to pass through customs at inter5 national airports?

4.Will you specify others?

Post reading tasks

1.Social English.

A. Questions and Inquires

I would be glad to know… Please, let me know….

We hope that you’ll inform …. I wonder, if …

In accordance with law I request …

Where can I (see the schedule) /(check my luggage)/ (Leave my bag)? I’m interested in...

Could you help me? May I do smth.? How can I get to…?

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B. Thanks

It’s very kind of you

Thank you for doing smth.

I am most grateful to you for helping me.

Thank you very much.

2.Your foreign friend has been studying at a Law college in Ukraine. She’ll finish her course at the end of this month and wants to go sig htseeing around Ukraine. Help her to apply to a travel agency. Make up sentences using the following list of words and word combinations: to apply for a visa

to complete an application form to be available

to require the necessary information to comply with

to provide

to go through the Customs to pack your luggage

to declare to buy

to pay in cash

to take a flight/ the flight is full

OVER TO YOU

Only in London there are three airports. Heathrow is London’s major airport. Over 40 mln people pass through it every year. There are many robberies from passengers’ luggage at the airport; that’s why sometimes it is called «Thiefrow». With your partner discuss the following statements about the crimes happened at the airport.

1.Most thieves are young men.

2.Most thefts take place late at night.

3.Very few thieves are arrested.

4.The average stealing takes about 5 minutes.

5.At any time you may become a victim of a pick5pocket, a thief or even hijackers.

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