- •Методичні вказівки
- •Unit 1 Crimes and criminals
- •1.Work in pairs. Read the comment below and then discuss how far you agree or disagree with it. Explain why.
- •2. Answer the following questions, justify your point of view.
- •3. Study the vocabulary, look up unknown words in the dictionary.
- •Vocabulary activities
- •4. Match the criminals with the definition.
- •5. By moving vertically or horizontally (forwards or backwards) find twelve kinds of criminals.
- •6. Say what punishments you, as a judge, would give for the following crimes. Support your position.
- •8. Give the name of the defined law breaker.
- •9. Study the vocabulary, look up unknown words in the dictionary.
- •Vocabulary activities
- •10. Comment on the meanings of the words written in italics.
- •11. A. Say which of the crimes and offences could involve the following:
- •13. A. Cut 5-6 short articles out of an English /American / Ukrainian newspaper which deal with some crime and offences. Take the clippings (cuttings) to the University.
- •15. Put each of the following words and phrases into its correct place in the passage below.
- •16. A. Study the table
- •18. Work with idioms. A. Read the newspaper articles below and discuss them with your partner. Then try to work out the meaning of the multi-word verbs in italics.
- •19. Read about some people's actions and identify the type of their offence.
- •Do you live in a burglar-friendly house?
- •21. Match the headlines with the crimes:
- •23.Translate the following texts from Ukrainian into English.
- •Unit 2 Courts. Legal Procedure
- •Vocabulary activities
- •1. Answer the following questions:
- •2. Comment on the meanings of the words written in italics.
- •3. Comment on the duties of the following people:
- •4. Match each punishment with its description.
- •5. Choose the word or phrase that best keeps the meaning of the original sentence if it is substituted for the capitalized word.
- •7. Trial. If you commit a crime you may be:
- •8. A. There are a number of gaps in these stories. Use the words below to complete them.
- •Trial by Jury
- •10. Choose the right answer.
- •12. Read the stories and answer the questions below.
- •13. Fill in the missing word(s).
- •14. Match the words with their definitions.
- •18. Fill in the blanks with the words that best fit the meaning of each sentence.
- •19. Juvenile delinquency is an issue about which people all over the world are concerned.
- •Juvenile delinquency
- •20. In a students' debating club the motion is "goths, punks, heavy metal fans, rockers, green hippies and others should be prosecuted by law."
- •22. Do some library research and write an essay on one of the given topics:
- •23. Translate the following text from Ukrainian into English.
- •Topical vocabulary
18. Fill in the blanks with the words that best fit the meaning of each sentence.
1. A panic-stricken woman phoned up the ... . 2. The man was ... for impersonating a police officer. 3. Police showed the witness a photo line-up of possible ... . 4. The man had an ... alibi. 5. The criminal has been ... with robbery. 6. The unspeakable crime was ... by a fifteen-year-old girl. 7. The offender was found ... . 8. The man was on ... for murder. He was ... to life in prison. 9. The police ... the woman of shoplifting. 10. The criminal made a full ... . 11. ... doesn't pay. 12. Drug addicts often ... to crime. 13. Is shoplifting a serious crime or a ... one? 14. The witness gave ... for the defence. 15. The man is under ... for fraud. 16. The old man was ... to appear in court. 17. Armed with a search ... , the detective went to the suspect's house. 18. The man paid a heavy ... for driving drunk. 19. The judge made the man pay ... to his victim. 20. The judge ... Mr Brown from driving.
19. Juvenile delinquency is an issue about which people all over the world are concerned.
a) Read the text given below which presents information on the gravity of the problem:
Juvenile delinquency
Junenile delinquency is lawbreaking by non-adult persons. It includes such crimes as murder, robbery as well as offences, such as truancy or sexual acts. The term "juvenile" most commonly refers to some under 18 years of age. Delinquency is a major social problem. Delinquency is likely to come from a background of poverty, from broken homes, from the families of drinkers and drug addicts. Criminologists who study juvenile delinquency attempt to explain it in several ways:
1) One theory is that delinquency is learned behavior, acquired by associating with people who have little respect
for the law
2) Another explanation is that juveniles who are caught and labelled delinquent by the authorities are likely to continue to break the law because that label makes it harder for them to be law obeying.
3) Other explanations stress biological or psychological causes.
Have you ever asked yourself why the problem of juvenile delinquency became so widely discussed nowadays? We have never seen such boom of crimes committed by juveniles before or may be we were not allowed to see them or simply closed our eyes at them. We used to say that we had neither drugs addiction nor prostitution. It seems that these problems as well as alcohol abuse appeared from nowhere. But they are no longer in their arising stage. They are progressing with all their strength and this is because all these problems were hidden from people. This is because we lost our time, we failed to make some actions when it was possible.
Now we look around and we are terrified at the sight of consequences. The percent of crimes committed by juveniles rises with every year. The list of crimes starts with petty offences, goes through housebreaking, shoplifting, mugging to be topped by murder. People are terrorized by mobsters and thugs, many of them are quite problem teenagers, including those who run away from their homes. Only few people realize that the words “drug addicts”, “neglected children”, “glue snuffers” can be said not about other boys and girls but sometimes about their own childre. But why do teenagers run away from homes, from their loving mother and fathers? And why do they choose to look and act aggressive and tough? If they want to express themselves in such a way - its their own business, but why at other people's expense? It is no longer safe to walk in the street at night because you may be hit and robbed by young gangs who disturb and horrify people by their actions. Sometimes they hurt people just for pleasure, sometimes they need money so they decide to take them form others by robbing.
One more factor of worsening the situation is that people prefer to stay away from everything until it touches them. They simply watch and wait to see the results. As I have already said the juvenile problem is the result of the policy of silence which disguised many of our problems including this one. To wind everything up I should say if people were not so indifferent this problem would not become so essential.
b) Pair work. Team up with another student, work out the reasons for juvenile delinquency as they are presented in the text and discuss them in pairs.
c) Speak about the social background of juvenile delinquency and its role in contributing to the crime rate. Consider the following:
1. Are juvenile offenders usually found among children from broken homes or large unhappy poor families?
2. Is being unemployed an important enough reason to push somebody onto the path of crime?
3. What would you say about disillusionment, loss of faith in the surrounding grown-up world as a possible reason for juvenile delinquency?
4. Speak on the vital role of drug addiction and alcohol consumption in the growing crime rate in general and in juvenile delinquency in particular.