Task 10. Read the text and discuss it in the form of the dialogue, using clichés, set expressions and phrases given below. Training

The training of solicitors is stringent. Most solicitors are law graduates, although some are qualified in other disciplines (which the Law Society considers equivalent in academic rigor). Those, who have graduated in other subjects, are obliged to take the Common Professional Examination (CPE), a one year course, which instructs them in the principles of law. At this point, a trainee lawyer can choose whether to become a solicitor or a barrister. In the latter case, the further period of training before qualification will be somewhat shorter.

Both law graduates and CPE students must complete a further course equivalent to a year’s full-time study, the Law Society’s Legal Practice Course. This further year of training balances substantive law, practice and procedure, with at least 25% of time spent acquiring skills like drafting, interviewing, negotiation, advocacy and legal research. Students are also instructed in the keeping of accounts and professional ethics, particularly important because solicitors generally handle large amounts of clients’ money. At the end of the course, students are examined in the four compulsory substantive law subjects (Conveyancing; Wills, Probate and Administration; Business Law and Practice; Litigation and Advocacy), together with the private client or business client options they have chosen.

As far as I understand… Наскільки я розумію...

I fully agree with you. Я повністю погоджуюсь з вами

I disagree with you. Я незгоден з вами.

That’s just what

I was going to say. Це як раз те, про що я хотів сказати.

You are mistaken. Ви помиляєтесь.

I am not sure but I believe… Я не впевнений, але мені

здається...

Task 11. Read and enjoy. We, the Jury

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A judge asked our group of potential jurors whether anyone should be excused, and one man raised his hand.

“I can’t hear out of my left ear,” the man told the judge.

“Can you hear out of your right ear?” the judge asked. The man nodded his head.

“You’ll be allowed to serve on the jury,” the judge declared. “ We only listen to one side of the case at a time”.

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My honest, hard-working father stood before the judge to explain why he wished to be excused from the jury duty.

“Your Honor, my small grocery store is the sole means of support for my wife and eight children. To serve as a juror would mean closing the store, and I can’t afford that.”

“Mr. Jones, what if everyone were like you?” asked the judge.

“Your Honor,” my father replied, “if everyone were like me, you wouldn’t be needing a jury.”

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Jury foreman addressing judge: ”Before announcing our verdict, we’d like to recommend that Harrison Ford play the defendant.”

Grammar exercise

I. Divide the verbs below into two groups: regular and irregular.

Write four forms of each verb

To arise, to try, to deal with, to train, to preside, to give up, to work, to draw, to hold, to administer, to be, to sit, to plead, to share, to consider, to serve, to choose, to hear, to read, to write, to bring, to break, to answer, to call, to hire.