- •Предисловие
- •Unit I State Structure of the Republic of Belarus
- •Vocabulary
- •The Constitution of the Republic of Belarus
- •Vocabulary Practice
- •Discussion
- •Grammar Practice The Adjective. Degrees of Comparison
- •Articles
- •The Verb. Types of Questions
- •Tenses in the Active Voice
- •Modal Verbs
- •The President
- •The Leguslative and Executive Branches
- •Legal System of Belarus
- •Judicial Power
- •External Policy of the Republic of Belarus
- •Revision Translation
- •Unit II State Structure of the United Kingdom
- •Vocabulary
- •The Constitutional Monarchy
- •Legislature
- •Parliament
- •Vocabulary Practice
- •Verb noun(agent) noun(concept)
- •English Laws
- •Discussion
- •Grammar Practice Tenses in the Active Voice
- •Types of questions. Degrees of comparison. Articles.
- •Limitations on the Lords
- •The Queen
- •Electoral System
- •Political Party System
- •Revision translation
- •Unit III State Structure of the usa
- •Vocabulary
- •The Constitution of the usa
- •Vocabulary Practice
- •Discussion
- •1. The Declaration of Independence:
- •2. The Bill of Rights:
- •The Constitution:
- •Grammar Practice Articles
- •The Passive Voice
- •Modal Verbs
- •The Sequence of Tenses
- •Congress
- •The Senate
- •The House of Representatives
- •Department of Justice
- •Political Parties
- •Revision translation Правовая система сша
- •Unit IV Legal Profession
- •Vocabulary
- •Legal Profession in Great Britain
- •Word Practice
- •Verb noun (agent) noun (concept)
- •Discussion
- •Grammar practice The Infinitive
- •The Infinitive Constructions
- •Prepositions
- •Modal Verbs
- •Legal Profession in the United States
- •Judges Nomination
- •Judicial Independence
- •The United States Sheriffs’ Work
- •Revision translation Профессия юриста в Великобритании
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •You should Know Law
- •Vocabulary Practice
- •Verb noun (agent) noun (concept)
- •Discussion
- •1. Law is the highest achievement of civilization:
- •2. Functions of law:
- •3. The spheres of law:
- •Grammar Practice
- •Tenses in the Active and Passive Voice (Revision)
- •The Participle
- •The Participle Constructions
- •Sources of Law
- •Legal System of Great Britain
- •Ancient Laws
- •The Middle Ages Legislation
- •The Center of Government and Justice
- •Revision translation
- •Англо-саксонская правовая семья или семья общего права
- •Законодательство на территории Беларуси в Средние Века
- •Unit VI Crime
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary Practice
- •Discussion
- •Tom's Life of Crime
- •Inspector’s Investigation
- •Grammar Practice Prepositions
- •The Gerund
- •Defences
- •Juvenile Delinquency
- •Crime Prevention
- •Measures to Combat Terrorism
- •Computer Crime
- •Revision Translation
- •Unit VII Police Force
- •Vocabulary
- •The Work of the Police in Great Britain
- •Vocabulary Practice
- •Duties and functions of the police force:
- •Members of the police:
- •Grammar Practice Subjunctive Mood
- •The Police Mission
- •Points for Discussion:
- •The Metropolitan Police Force
- •Scotland Yard
- •Interpol
- •Police Force in the u.S.A.
- •Inspection Division
- •Revision Translation
- •Revision test (Units 1 – 3)
- •Inns of Court
- •Scottish Parliament
- •Vocation to Defend Man
- •Revision test (Units 4 – 7)
- •A Famous Russian Jurist
- •Supplement
- •1. English Alphabet and Sounds. Алфавит и звуки
- •2. Rules of reading. Произношение и чтение
- •3.Word Formation. Словообразование. Suffixes. Суффиксы
- •4.The Noun. The Category of number. Множественное число существительных
- •5. The Noun. The Category of Case. Притяжательный падеж
- •6. The indefinite Article
- •7. The Definite Article (with Common Nouns)
- •8. Omission of the Article. Отсутствие артикля
- •9. The Degrees of Comparison (the adjective and the adverb). Степени сравнения прилагательных и наречий
- •10.The Pronoun. Местоимения
- •11. The Cardinal and the Ordinal numerals. Количественные и порядковые числительные
- •12. The Structure of the Sentence. Порядок слов в английском повествовательном предложении
- •13. To be and to Have (Indefinite Tenses). Глаголы to be и to have во временах группы Indefinite
- •15. Types of Questions. Типы вопросительных предложений
- •16. A) The Tenses in the Active Voice Времена действительного залога
- •16. B) The Future–in–the Past. Будущее в прошедшем
- •17. The Constitution It is/was… that. Усилительная конструкция
- •18. The Passive Voice. Страдательный залог.
- •19. Modal Verbs. Модальные глаголы и их эквиваленты.
- •20. The Sequence of Tenses. Согласование времен.
- •22. The word One
- •23. The Participle. Причастие.
- •24. The Participial Constructions. Причастные обороты
- •25. The Gerund. Герундий.
- •26. The Gerundial. Герундиальный оборот
- •27. The Infinitive. Инфинитив
- •28. The Infinitive Constructions. Инфинитивные обороты
- •29. Subjunctive Mood. Сослагательное наклонение.
- •List of Irregular Verbs
- •List of Reference Books
Grammar Practice The Adjective. Degrees of Comparison
Ex. 1. Give the comparative and superlative degrees of the following adjectives and adverbs
great long rich poor old |
early easy high rainy sunny |
famous peaceful difficult beautiful tragic |
good well bad quickly happily |
near hard soon far often |
Ex. 2. Use the proper degree of comparison in the following sentences.
One of (important) Skaryna’s achievements was the translation and pubication of the Bible into the Belarusian language, first in Prague in 1517 – 1519, and later in Vilnya.
There were (many/much) noble families in the history of Belarus; however there was no (famous) one than the Radzivills.
Barbara Radzivill (1520 – 1551), the Queen of Poland and Duchy of Lithuania, was one of (beautiful) women of her time.
The laws of the famous Statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were the (perfect) legislation documents in Europe at that time.
The third version of the 1588 Statute was considered to be (perfect). It was compiled by (outstanding) politicians of the Middle Ages, Chancellor of the GDL Astafe Valovich and Leu Sapieha.
The (good) known Belarusian magnate families were the Radzivills, the Sapiehas, the Halshanskis, etc.
Lake Naroch, (big) in the Republic of Belarus, belongs to the Naroch Group, which includes lakes Miastro, second (big), and Botorino.
The Belovezhskaya Pushcha is the (large) national park on the territory of Belarus with an area of about 90 thousand hectares.
(Important) rivers in Belarus are the Pripuat, the Dnieper, the Nieman, the Berezina and Zapadnaya Dvina as well as the Dniepre-Bug canal.
(Considerable) person of the last third of the 19th century was Frantishek Bogushevich, in essence the first people’s and national writer of Belarus.
Being funny is much (difficult) than being clever.
(Bright) representative of the first half of the 19th century was the Great Polish and Belarusian poet Adam Mitskevich born in the vicinity of Novogrudock.
One of (significant) Mitskevich’s literary works oriented to the living language was “Pan Tadeysh”.
Articles
Ex. 3. Use the articles: a/an, the, or nothing.
The scientists have not yet exactly defined … origin of … name Belarus.
All sorts of … aggressors attacked and occupied Belarus many … time.
Francisk Skaryna started … book-printing business in Belarus in … 16th century.
… fascists cut down and burnt many Belarusian woods during … years of … World War II.
… Belarusian people restored … economy of … republic with … help of all peoples of … former Soviet Union.
… Belarusian people celebrated … Independence Day on … 27th of July for some years. Now … holiday is celebrated on … 3d of July.
… Belarusian industry produces …tractors and automobiles, … refrigerators and TV sets, … computers and other goods.
The Belarusian farmers cultivate … grain, … vegetables, … herbs and … flax.
In 1870 I. Nosovic published … first dictionary of … Belarusian language.
… Russian and Polish languages have greatly influenced … Belarusian language.
A.Lukashenko and B.Yeltsin signed … agreement on all-round integration between Belarus and Russia on April … 2, 1996.