Describe your working day, use Present Simple.

Part I

Now you are a first year student of Law Department. So is the girl in the picture. Your life has changed greatly. Describe daily routine of a first year student. Use the following questions to help you.

 

1) What Department do you study at?

2) Who do you want to be?

3) What time do you wake up every day?

4) Do you have breakfast? What do you usually have for breakfast?

5) What time do you leave house?

6) How much time does it take you to get to the University?

7) What time do your classes begin?

8) How many classes do you have every day?

9) What types of classes do you have as a first year student? (lectures, seminars, workshops, etc…)

10) How do you usually prepare for seminars: go to the library, use the Internet…?

11) Do you miss classes?

12) How many days a week do you study?

13) What do you usually do after classes?

14) How do you spend your free time?

15) Do you like studying at Law Department?

Part II

In the same way describe lawyer’s (Picture A) and prisoner’s (Picture B) working day. You may use questions from Part I. Share your ideas with your classmates.

Picture A	Picture B

SELF-CHECK I

VOCABULARY

I. Choose the correct answer. (20 points)

1) The principle _____ of judges is to oversee legal proceedings and apply _____.

A) task

B) view

C) idea

A) cases

B) laws

C) accidents

2) When people take part in any activity they have to act according to certain _____.

A) norms

B) rules

C) delicts

3) When a person sees a crime he or she is called _____.

A) a detective

B) a witness

C) a suspect

4) Lawyer should present _____ in the court to support their client.

A) a witness

B) evidence

C) mortgage

5) _____ sentenced him to two years imprisonment.

A) The judge

B) The jury

C) The solicitor

6) Every year numerous _____ crimes occur in Mexico.

A) rude

B) violent

C) mild

7) The court can punishthe criminal if he _______ the law.

A) makes

B) breaks

C) abolishes

8) Laws govern behaviour between people in all _____.

A) companies

B) societies

C) ranks

9) Both litigators didn’t want to _____ the dispute. So they brought a court action.

A) settle

B) solve

C) resolute

 

GRAMMAR

II. Open the brackets and put the verbs in Present Simple, Past Simple or Future Simple. (30 points)

1) We (take part)________________ in a sport competition last Sunday.

2) As a rule he (have) _______________ seminars on Mondays.

3) I’m tired this morning. I (not sleep)_______________ very well last night.

4) They (to finish)_______________ their experiment in some days.

5) His mother-in-law (work)_______________ as a paralegal in the juvenile’s court.

6) The students (go) _______________ to the court to get some ideas of the work of a judge.

7) So, he (not follow) ______________ my advice and (leave)______________ the Law Department last year.

8) When I first (tell)______________ Tom the news, he (not believe)______________ me. He (think)_____________ that I was joking.

9) If you (finish)_______________ the University with Honors, you (get)____________ a good and well-paid job.

10) As a rule attorney (assist)______________ clients with litigation, wills, trusts and many other things.

11)  When he (witness)_______________ a robbery, he tried to prevent it and got some minor injuries.

 

2. Choose the correct word from the box and fill in the gaps. (20 points)

lawyer   not guilty  charged with stole  imprisonment burglary(2)     a verdict sentenced discharged

A strange sentence

 

A man was brought up before a judge and (1)______________ burglary. He cut a hole in the side of a tent, put his head, his right arm and his right shoulder through the hole and (2)______________ several things belonging to the people sleeping in the tent.

The (3)______________ of the defendant said that as the man had not entered the tent, he couldn't be convicted of a (4) _______________ and ought to be set free. The judge however said that while the man as a whole had not committed (5)_____________, his head, his right arm and his right shoulder had.

The jury brought in (6) _______________ of guilty against these parts, which were (7) _________________ to two years (8) ______________ with hard labour in the state prison. All the rest of the man was found (9) ______________ and (10)_______________.

 

III.  READING COMPREHENSION (30 points)