4. Give English equivalents for…

закон, юриспруденция, адвокат (юрист), суд, судья, мировой судья (магистрат), юрисконсульт (солиситор), барристер, коронер, председательствовать на суде, представлять ч-л интересы в суде, магистратский суд (мировой суд), случай из судебной практики, неестественная (насильственная) смерть, назначать наказание, обвиняемый, виновен, невиновен, присяжные, гражданское/уголовное дело, драма в зале суда, обсуждать дело, готовить дело, выступать в прениях сторон.

My opposite number

1. Read the text and try to understand it. Consult a dictionary if you need.

Vocabulary Notes: (be one’s) opposite number Phillip has the same position/does the same job as me; (have) working relationship how we communicate and work together; (establish) rapport [ræp’ō] communication/relationship; (socialize with); workmates colleagues, especially in nonprofessional jobs; talk shop talk about work; hierarchical [haia’ākikal] has a structure with powerful and less powerful people (there’s) pecking-order a system where some people have the right to get benefits/promotions before others; do a job-share we each have a 50% contract for the same job.

Well, Phillip is my opposite number in the company’s New York office. He and I have good working relationship. Last month we got a new boss, who quickly established a good rapport with everyone in the office. I do socialize with my workmates but we try not to talk shop. The company is generally very hierarchical; there’s pecking-order for everything. I do a job-share with a woman called Rosemary. It suits us both as we each have children to look after.

2. What do you do? Write and say about yourself.

What do you do? Where do you work? What do you do there?

Who is your opposite number?

Do you have a good relationship?

Do you socialize with your workmates? Do you talk shop?

3. Read the texts and try to understand them. Do the exercises below.

Text One: Daily Work Routines

Nancy gets up to work at about 8.45. She has to clock in and clock out [use an electronic card to record the time she arrives and leaves each day]. She works fixed hours; she has a nine-to-five job. Brett can come in at any time from eight o’clock till ten in the morning; he works flexi-time [he’s on flexi-time], but his core hours are 10.00 to 12.00 and 2.00 to 4.00. Archie doesn’t go to the office at all. He works from home with his computer; he’s teleworker. Bert works different times each week; every third week he works nights; he does shift work [he’s a shift worker]. Mick has his own company; he’s self-employed and works from home. His wife works for different companies at different times; she’s freelance [she works freelance].

Text Two: during the day (Different Work-Patterns)

Vocabulary notes: meet a deadline have something finished by a fixed day or time, workload (heavy and light) amount of work I have to do, mechanical you don’t have to think about what you are doing, repetitive the same thing every day, knocking off (informal) finishing work, monotonous boring because it never changes, glamorous very exciting, which everyone admires, irregular and antisocial do not enable one to have a normal social life, stuck behind a desk (informal) sitting in an office all day, stuck in a rut stuck in a job they can’t escape from, dead-end jobs jobs with no prospects of promotion.

MARY: Most of the day I do routine tasks, but occasionally there’s a crisis or I have to meet a deadline. At certain times of the year I have a very heavy workload but at other times it can be quite light.

MARK: I start work at my machine at seven o’clock when I’m on the day shift. The job is very mechanical and repetitive. All I ever think about is knocking off at three. The shift I hate most is the night shift. I start at ten and work all night till six in the morning. The job’s a bit monotonous.

JOHN: I have a glamorous job. I’m a pilot. The hours are irregular and antisocial, but I’m not stuck behind a desk and there’s a lot of variety. The stress levels can be quite high when you know people’s lives depend on you. I feel sorry for people who stuck in a rut or working in dead-end jobs.

4. Complete the sentences.

1. I would get bored if I had a nine …

2. When I arrive in the morning and leave the office in the evening I use this card to …

3. I’m very tired; recently I had a very heavy …

4. I don’t want an office job. I don’t want to spend all day stuck …

5. I can clock in any time between eight and ten and clock out between four and six; I’m on …

6. I’d hate to feel trapped in my job and to be stuck in …

7. He’s not here this evening, he’s working nights; you see, he does …

8. I work for different companies at different times as it suits me. I’m …

9. I used to work for someone else, but now I’m my own boss; I’m …

10. I stopped working in the hamburger restaurant. It was just a dead-…

11. When I was working in the factory, all I could think of all day was the moment when I could knock …

12. Being a nurse is a good job, but you can’t go out with friends. The hours are a bit …

POLICE

1. Read the text and try to understand it.

Vocabulary notes: (1) Offence is a formal word for an illegal action. (2) Fixed sum payable for a particular offence. (3) Fine payable at the time and place that you commit the offence. (4) Papers placed on driver’s windscreens fining them for illegal parking. (5) An instrument which you blow into that shows if you have consumed alcohol recently. (6) Say what happened and sign a copy of it. (7) Power to stop people and search them in the street. (8) Cameras that record everything that happens.

(9) Official permission from a judge or magistrate to search your house.

For some traffic offences (1) you have to pay a fixed penalty (2), and this may be an on-the-spot fine (3). Parking tickets (4) for illegal parking are issued by police and/or traffic wardens. If there has been an accident, the police may ask drivers to take breathalyzer (5) test and to make a statement (6) at a police station. Police have limited stop-and-search (7) powers. Surveillance cameras (8) operate in many public areas. A police officer cannot normally enter your home against your wishes without a search warrant (9).

2. Find English equivalents to …

правонарушение …, заплатить штраф …, штраф на месте совершения правонарушения …, квитанция на оплату штрафа за паркирование в неустановленном месте …, паркирование с нарушением установленных правил …, инспектор ГИБДД …, дорожно-транспортное происшествие …, проходить тест на выявления алкоголя (у водителя автомашины) …, давать показания …, ограниченные права останавливать и обыскивать …, камеры наблюдения …, общественные места …, ордер на обыск … .

3. Give possible reasons for the circumstances in which the police might do the following (based on your own experience).

1. Carry out spot checks on trucks [проводить досмотр грузового транспорта].

2. Charge someone with drink-driving [обвинять к-л в нахождении за рулем в нетрезвом виде].

3. Tap someone’s telephone [прослушивать ч-л телефон].

4. Use their powers of stop and search [воспользоваться правом останавливать и обыскивать].

5. Carry out a surveillance operation on someone’s house.

6. Set up a roadblock [блокировать дорогу].

7. Ask you to make a statement.