- •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
In pairs / groups, write down questions about business fraud and suitable punishments.
Ask other classmates your questions and note down their answers.
Go back to your original partner / group and compare your findings.
Make mini-presentations to other groups on your findings.
You are part of a new committee to decide on clear sentencing rules for business fraud. In pairs / groups, write how serious you think the fraud is in the middle column and your punishments in the right hand column.
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FRAUD |
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PUNISHMENT |
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Corporate accounting scandals |
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Credit card fraud |
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False advertising |
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Identity theft |
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Forgery of documents or signatures |
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Search the Internet and find more information on famous frauds. Share your findings with your group in the next lesson.
Make a poster describing one kind of fraud. Describe the measures that need to be taken to eliminate it. Show your posters to your classmates in your next lesson. Did you all write similar things?
You are a prisoner serving a five-year prison sentence for a relatively minor fraud. Write a letter to the presiding judge in the Tsutsumi case and tell him what you think of the suspended sentence. Show what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all write about similar things?
Unit 12. Krispy kreme in donut war over recipe
BEFORE LISTENING
Practice the pronunciation of the following words taken from the text which you are going to listen to.
Krispy Kreme, donut company, biggest cookie company, Arnott, biscuit company, Krispy Kreme Iced Dough-Vo donut, Iced Vo-Vo biscuit, lawyers, identical, icing, coconut sprinkling, recipe, sue, confuse, doughnut, accusation, request, withdraw, allegedly, in breach, advice.
Give Russian equivalents to the following English words and word combinations.
To be in trouble; war of words; a cookie company (a biscuit company); to take to court; legal team; icing; coconut sprinkling; to take legal action; to sue; a spokesman for the company; to confuse; to look into an accusation; to be in breach; tribute to.
WHILE LISTENING
Listen to the text “Krispy Kreme in donut was over recipe”. Make notes about the proper and personal names you might hear.
Agree or disagree to the following statements.
Krispy Kreme donut company employees fired guns at a rival company.
A rival company wants to sue Krispy Kreme in a court of law.
A Krispy Kreme donut looks and tastes the same as a rival's cookie.
A rival company asked Krispy Kreme to make more of its new donut.
A Krispy Kreme spokesman said donuts and cookies are different.
The spokesman suggested Krispy Kreme customers were not stupid.
Krispy Kreme lawyers believe the company broke trademark laws.
The spokesman said the new donut name was in honour of the biscuit.
Listen to the text again and fill in the gaps using the following words.
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legal team, best-loved, sue, war of words, identical, in trouble, to take to court, withdraw, different, copy, take legal action, confuse, accusation, tribute |