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Part ІI. BASIC COURSE

LANGUAGE FOCUS

The Present Perfect Continuous Tense

1.Make the following sentences interrogative and negative: Example: They have been listening to the instructions for a long time already. — Have they been listening to the instructions? They have not been listening to the instructions for a long time.

1.They have been completing the entrance form for an hour already. 2. The Immigration Officer have been asking questions for half an hour already. 3. They have been flying for 2 hours and everybody has been nervous. 4. He has been telling me about the documents that I need to enter the UK for an hour. 5. She has been going through the Customs for 10 minutes.

2.Put questions to the words in italics:

Example: The have been watching their behavior for a month.* How long have they been watching their behavior?

1.The police have been preparing the description of the man wanted. 2. They have been working at the law report for 2 weeks already.

3.The Immigration Officer has been examining my entry clearance documents for half an hour by now. 4. It’s a long way from Heathrow to London, we have been going by the underground for 30 minutes already. 5. They have been looking through my luggage 5 minutes already.

3.Compare the situations and comment on the use of the Present Con tinuous and Present Perfect Continuous:

1.Don’t disturb me now. I am working. — I have been working hard for 2 hours, now I want to have a rest.

2.We need an umbrella. It’s raining. — The ground is wet. It has been raining the whole day.

3.Hurry up! We are waiting. — We have been waiting for you for an hour already, hurry up!

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4.Read the situation and complete it as in the example:

Example: The rain started 2 hours ago. It’s still raining now. — It has been raining for 2 hours.

1.I started Civil Law classes in September. I’m still studying Law.

2.Our father began to work as a judge 10 years ago. He is still working.

3.The investigator started to question the criminal an hour ago. He is still doing it. 4. I began completing the entrance form half an hour ago. I am still writing. 5. Ann began looking for a job in the Procurator’s Office 6 months ago. She is still looking now. 6. Years ago you started learning English in the UK. You still learn it.

5.Translate the following sentences into English:

1.Я лечу вже 4 години, я дуже стомився. 2. Я вивчаю цивільне право вже місяць. 3. Він відповідає на питання митного служ5 бовця вже 10 годин. 4. Мій брат працює прокурором вже 5 років.

5.Вони обговорюють деталі подорожі вже місяць. 6. Він складає екзамен з адміністративного права вже півгодини. 7. Ми чекаємо на еміграційного службовця вже 5 хвилин.

The Past Simple Tense

1.Write the Past Indefinite of the following irregular verbs:

put, choose, write, begin, grow, come, buy, bring, tell, wear, cut, teach, take, find, bind, sleep, stand, get, learn, know, send, see, hear, have, be, draw, break.

2.Make the sentences interrogative and negative:

Example: I applied for a visa a week ago. — Did I apply for a visa a week ago? — I didn’t apply for a visa a week ago.

1.I studied Criminal Law in the UK. 2. When I traveled to the UK I arrived at Heathrow. 3. A taxi from Heathrow cost me 40 pound. 4. I got permission to remain in the UK for 12 months. 5. Then I opened my luggage for the inspection. 6. I paid a charge for all types of entry documents.

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3.Put questions to the words in italics:

Example: They landed at 9 o’clock this morning. — When did they land?

1.I completed a special form at the nearest British Embassy. 3. His brother worked as an immigration officer last year. 4. I needed per5 mission to enter the UK as a student. 5. He put a stamp in my passport a minute ago. 6. I complied with all immigration rules in order to complete my course of study.

4.Rewrite the following sentences using the Past Indefinite:

1.His father works at the British Embassy. 2. All my necessary documentation is easily available. 3. You have a right to ask for an inte5 rpreter. 4. I usually ask for advice to take the Red or Green channel. 5. It takes me 40 minutes to get to London from Heathrow by the underground. 6. A Skycap Porter usually helps me with my luggage.

5.Translate the following sentences into English:

1.Необхідна інформація включала імена, деталі подорожі та номер кредитної картки. 2. Ми зареєструвалися в поліції, оскіль5 ки я подорожувала з дитиною. 3. Я йшла через зелений коридор митниці. 4. Вона слідувала всім іміграційним правилам, щоб закінчити курс навчання. 5. Я отримала дозвіл залишатися в країні 12 місяців. 6. Коли я прийшла до посольства, я заповнила спеціальну форму.

The Future Simple Tense

1.Make the following sentences interrogative and negative: Example: Your final arrangements will include obtaining a Visa. — Will your final arrangements include obtaining a Visa? No, your final arrangements will not include obtaining a Visa.

1.You will have a grant a maximum of 6 months’ permission to stay in the UK. 2. Mrs. Evans will apply to a visa officer at the nearest Embassy. 3. As far as I know, you will arrive at Heathrow. 3. You will have permission to stay for 6 months. 4. A Skycap Porter will help you

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with your luggage. 5. The taxi fare will be rather expensive for you. 6. Mr. Black will meet you at the luggage collection point.

2.Put questions to the words in italics:

Example: The UK Visa web5site will tell you the current informati* on.* What will the UK Visa web*site tell you?

1.Our friends will come to the airport at 7 p.m. 2. Then you’ll go to the Customs Hall. 3. All the documents will be originals. 4. The procedure will take a lot of time. 5. I’ll go to the UK for the purpose of study. 6. They will produce all the documents in time.

3.Choose the correct item (Present Simple or Future Simple): Example: Don’t leave the town until they (prepare/ will prepare) documents. — Don’t leave the town until they prepare documents.

1.If they (ask/ will ask) you to open your luggage, you will open, unpack and repack it. 2. If you (hold/ will hold) a visa, your passage through immigration will be easy. 3. If you (travel/ will travel) from Europe you will sometimes arrive at Gatwick. 4. If your husband (travels, will travel) with you the immigration officer will put a stamp in his passport too. 5. If you (get/ will get) permission to stay for a longer period of time the Immigration Officer will ask you to provide the evidence of permission. 6. If you (have/ will have) no items to declare you will go to the Green channel.

4.Translate the following sentences into English:

1.Коли ви подасте документи на візу? 2. Коли ви приїдете до Об’єднаного Королівства, іміграційний службовець поставить штамп у ваш паспорт. 3. Я впевнений, що Ваш приїзд до Великої Британії пройде легко. 4. Ви отримаєте дозвіл на перебування у країні на 6 місяців. 5. Це буде Ваша перша подорож до Британії?

6.Якщо Ви будете декларувати якісь речі, йдіть до червоного коридору!

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Module 2 Unit 1

Text: Yaroslav the Wise National

Law Academy of Ukraine

Vocabulary in use

Language focus:

The Past Continuous Tense

The Future Continuous Tense

Articles in word combinations with school, bed, home, prison, town, uni* versity, work

Pre reading tasks

1.Give at least 3 reasons why you decided to become a lawyer. Do you enjoy the people who are in legal profession?

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

Reading tasks

1.Read the text about Yaroslav the Wise National Law Academy of Ukraine:

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Notes on the text: faculty — факультет

full5time faculty — денний факультет part5time faculty — заочний факультет

department — кафедра

YAROSLAV THE WISE

NATIONAL LAW ACADEMY OF UKRAINE

Yaroslav the Wise National Law Academy of Ukraine is a higher legal education institution with great history, which began in 1804, when Russian Emperor Alexander I approved the statute of Imperial Kharkiv University. Among the other faculties there was a faculty of law there. The faculty became an independent institute in 1920, which later, in 1995, became Yaroslav the Wise National Law Academy of Ukraine.

According to the President’s Decree the Academy is an auto5 nomous state higher education institution with the highest accre5 ditation level.

There are 31 departments in the Academy’s structure. The students study at 9 full*time faculties, 2 part*time faculties, an evening faculty and at the Prosecutors’ Training Institute. The Academy also has the Staff Development Institute and faculties in Kyiv, the Crimea and Poltava.

Admission to the Yaroslav the Wise National Law Academy of Ukraine is given to people who have completed full secondary edu5 cation and who have successfully passed entrance examinations. The Academy is licensed to have 1,900 full5time students and 1,900 part5 time new students each year. There are more than 2,500 graduates each year. During the years of its existence the Academy has trained more than 60,000 specialists. More than 15,000 students study here now.

All the students are guaranteed employment after graduation, because the Academy has special agreements with the corresponding state bodies. But in order to become a judge, defence lawyer or notary public they are to pass an individual procedure after graduating from the Academy.

The law library of the Academy has about 1,500,000 volumes of reference works, law reports and manuals. It provides the students with access to computer terminals with different online services, including Ukrainian legislation database.

The National Law Academy of Ukraine is the leading higher legal education provider of Ukraine, and is also the centre of dissemination

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of scientific and research experience in the country. The academic staff members of the Academy participated in the development of the Constitution of Ukraine and of numerous important legal acts of the Verkhovna Rada and the Cabinet of Ministers.

2. Look through the text to answer these questions:

1.What is the full name of the higher legal educational institution described in the text?

2.What can you tell about its history?

3.What do you know about the Academy’s structure?

4.Who can become a student of the Academy?

5.What does the Academy provide the students with?

6.Where can the graduates of the Academy work?

7.When did you hear about the Law Academy first?

8.What are you going to do after the legal course at your higher legal education institution?

3.WORD FAMILIES. Consult your dictionary: what different meanings can you find in it for these (already known to you from the previous texts) words:

study, staff, institute examination, state, body, lawyer, procedure, terminal, enter evidence

4.PREPOSITIONS. Choose the right preposition in brackets accor ding to the contents of the sentences (in, with, during, after, of, to, ).

1.In Ukraine every year many people apply … various higher edu5 cation institutions.

2.This year I have entered … Yaroslav the Wise National Law Aca5 demy of Ukraine.

3.According … the Constitution every young person has the right to education.

4.All the students … my group are guaranteed … employment.

5.Admission … this University is given to young people who have finished secondary school and successfully passed the entrance exams.

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6.Last month … order …work as a judge he passed an individual procedure … graduating the Academy.

7.At that moment my close friend was doing his lessons … the library because it provided him … access … legislation database.

8.These students were taking their entrance examinations … five hours.

5. Look through the text again and say:

5what information about the Academy you would mention in order to persuade your friend to enter it;

5what facts you would include in the booklet «Guide to Ukrainian higher education institutions».

Post reading tasks

1. Social English

HANDLING A DIALOGUE

These phrases help you to keep the conversation moving:

Will you tell me what …

If you ask me …

Have you got anything to add … ?

The point is …

Have you got any idea …?

Why do you think so?

Do you share my opinion?

What a silly way to talk!

I really couldn’t imagine that …

What do you mean …?

They say that …

Have you heard that …?

2.Spend 2 or 3 minutes inventing some details about yourself and answer the following questions using as many words and phrases from the text as you can. Chat with your partner asking him/her the same questions.

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•When did you get full secondary education?

•When did you choose your future profession?

•How many professions did you change in dreams when you were a child?

•Did anybody help (influence) you in choosing your future profession?

•How many higher education institutions had you visited or changed in dreams before you chose exactly this one?

•Why did you prefer this higher educational institution?

3.You are a first year student or a freshman. Describe what steps students have to take for admission to the higher educational instituti on? Use the following words and word combinations if necessary.

To choose; to consult; to discuss; to apply; an applicant; to fill in; an application including personal information; school5leaving cer5 tificate including the list of all the courses taken and all grades received and test results; recommendation and characteristics by a form master; to be late for; a medical extraction; to pass successfully entrance examinations; to follow the requirements, etc.

BUILD UP YOUR VOCABULARY

4.Read the list of words, translate into Ukrainian and sort them out into 3 columns. Consult your dictionary if necessary.

A monitor, a dean, a group, a diploma, a record(credit)5book, a test period, a credit, an examination, a mark5book, a lesson, a time5table, debts, to pass an exam, to take an exam, a break, a double period, department, faculty, a teacher, an assistant professor, an associate prof5 essor, a senior lecturer, professor, a lecture5room, a classroom, a library, a dining hall, director, vice5chancellor, rector, a blackboard, a hostel, a reading hall, free time, a form master.

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Post reading task

Describe your student’s life using the words and word combinations pre sented in the text and given in the tasks 3, 4.

OVER TO YOU

1.Here is a series of extreme opinions. Build a conversation about the topics. Use conversational phrases to keep the dialogue moving.

•People are born for this or that profession.

•Better unborn than untaught.

•Ignorant teacher is like a death5blow.

2.Compare how the time table of your usual working day has changed filling in the columns of the table.

LANGUAGE FOCUS

The Past Continuous Tense

1.Make the following sentences interrogative and negative: Example: The investigator was preparing the materials of the case all day yesterday. — Was the investigator preparing the materials of the case all day yesterday? No, the investigator was not preparing the materials of the case all day yesterday.

1.They were preparing documents for the report all yesterday evening. 2. Mary was participating in the conference yesterday noon, that’s why she didn’t take the receiver. 3. When I came into he was taking his entrance examination. 4. The dean was discussing that

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