- •Listening on law aspects
- •Contents
- •Preface
- •Part 1 unit 1. Outsourcing on the increase
- •Outsourcing on the increase
- •1) Search the Internet and find more information on the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu report.
- •2) Search the Internet and outline the pros and cons of outsourcing.
- •Unit 2. Banks in court over charges to customers
- •Banks in court over charges to customers
- •In pairs or groups talk about your thoughts on these financial services. Rank them in order of which you think are best.
- •In pairs discuss these headlines. Try to guess what the stories are behind them and share your opinions.
- •Unit 3. Bank error makes customers millionaires
- •Bank error makes customers millionaires
- •Unit 4. New ageism laws let older bankers sue for millions
- •New ageism laws let older bankers sue for millions
- •In pairs / groups, write down questions about ageism in the workplace.
- •Unit 5. Us fat cats quizzed over high salaries
- •Us fat cats quizzed over high salaries
- •Unit 6. Woman fired for using capital letters
- •Woman fired for using capital letter
- •Unit 7. Crime
- •Unit 8. Police arrest
- •Police Arrest
- •Unit 9. Drug trafficking grannies
- •Drug trafficking grannies
- •Unit 10. Illegal downloads
- •Illegal downloads
- •Piracy still prevailing
- •Unit 11. Tycoon avoids prison over shares scam
- •Tycoon avoids prison over shares scam
- •Tycoon avoids prison over shares scam
- •In pairs / groups, write down questions about business fraud and suitable punishments.
- •Unit 12. Krispy kreme in donut war over recipe
- •Krispy kreme in donut war over recipe
- •Unit 13. Barbie beats bratz in u.S. Court case
- •Barbie beats Bratz in u.S. Court case
- •Is it always easy to choose between two competitors? With your partner(s), decide which of the products below you think are best. Write your reasons why. Change partners and share your ideas.
- •Unit 14. Google first 100 billion dollar brand
- •Google first 100 billion dollar brand
- •Unit 15.Taiwan bans find-a-foreign-bride firms
- •Taiwan bans find-a-foreign-bride firms
- •Unit 1
- •Outsourcing on the increase
- •Active vocabulary
- •Unit 2 Banks in court over charges to customers Active vocabulary
- •Unit 3 bank error makes customers millionaires
- •Unit 4
- •Unit 5
- •Us fat cats quizzed over high salaries
- •Unit 6 Woman fired for using capital letters Active vocabulary
- •Unit 7 Crime Active vocabulary
- •Unit 8 Police arrest Active vocabulary
- •Unit 9 drug trafficking grannies
- •Unit 10
- •Illegal downloads
- •Unit 11 tycoon avoids prison over shares scam
- •Tycoon avoids prison over shares scam
- •Unit 12 krispy kreme in donut war over recipe
- •Unit 13 Barbie beats Bratz in u.S. Court case Active vocabulary
- •Unit 14 Google first 100 billion dollar brand Active vocabulary
- •Unit 15 Taiwan bans find-a-foreign-bride firms Active vocabulary
- •Part 2 english legal glossary
- •Latin terms
Tycoon avoids prison over shares scam
Japanese courts have meted / bleated out a strangely lenient / lending sentence to a business tycoon who was once listed in Forbes magazine as the world’s richest man. Yoshiaki Tsutsumi was found guilty of outsider / insider trading and falsifying his company’s share records by a court in Tokyo. Presiding / Presidential judge Tsutomu Tochigi said: “The impact on society of crimes by such leading Japanese companies is very serious”. Judge Tochigi then proceeded to hand out a sentence wholly incommensurate with the gravity / depravity of the crime expressed in his summing up / down. He fined Mr. Tsutsumi a paltry $43,000 – peanuts / chicken feed to someone of his vast wealth – and sentenced him to 30 months in prison, suspended for four years. It is highly unlikely Tsutsumi will serve / service any of that time.
Tsutsumi’s fall from grace / prayer has been swift, although he does not quite prove the bandage / adage, “the bigger they are, the harder they fall,” judging from his light court sentencing. The judge said he was not sent to prison because he has already been socially pesticide / ostracized. Tsutsumi is the former chairman of Kokudo Corporation, the core / bore firm of the Seibu railway group, with holdings / helpings in construction, hotels, resorts and a baseball team. He is one of Japan's most powerful industrialists and has close connections to many of the country’s leading politicians. In September 2004, Tsutsumi lied about his steak / stake in his company and fabricated hundreds of non-existent shareholders. The subsequent sale of shares from his shady / luminous dealings lined his own pockets to the tune / tunic of $180,000,000.
Look in your dictionaries / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms etc for the words ‘crime’ and ‘sentence’.
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Share your findings with your partners.
Make questions using the words you found.
Ask your partner / group your questions.
Below is a list of famous tycoons. Tell your groupmates what you know about them.
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What are the secrets to success? How do you become a business tycoon? In pairs / groups, talk about how important you think the following are. Rank them in order of most likely to make someone a tycoon.
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___ Coming from a rich family |
___ Being in the right place at the right time |
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___ University education |
___ Entrepreneurial genius |
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___ Ruthlessness |
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___ Hard work ___ Ability to lie and deceive |
___ Luck ___ Ambition |
Students A think a business tycoon whose illegal actions profit him $180,000,000 should go to prison. Students B strongly believe business leaders should not go to prison for lying about the financial affairs of their companies. Give arguments to each point of view.