- •Государственное образовательное учреждение
- •Courts and trials (topical vocabulary)
- •Set Work
- •I. Study the above given lexical units.
- •II. Give words for the following definitions.
- •III. Translate into English:
- •Crime and punishment
- •Set Work
- •Set Work
- •Set Work
- •I. What would you have done?
- •II. Look at these statements. What do you think about them?
- •III. Look at this list of ‘crimes’. Try and rate each crime on a scale from 1-10. (1 is a minor misdemeanor, 10 is a very serious crime.) They are in no order.
- •IV. Compare your list with another student’s. Which of you would be the harsher judge? Which would be the kinder?
- •Thief challenges dose of shame as punishment
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- •Women behind bars
- •Set Work
- •VI. State the idea behind the lines below and enlarge on it.
- •VII. Sum up the key points of the article.
- •VIII. Points for discussion.
- •Justice in los angeles
- •Set Work
- •V. Points for discussion.
- •VI. Sum up the article and single out its main points. Черное плюс белое равняется красному?
- •Set Work
- •I. Think of the best English equivalents of:
- •II. Say what you know about:
- •III. Points for discussion.
- •IV. Comment on the choice of the headline.
- •Set Work
- •VIII. Enlarge on the idea.
- •IX. Points for discussion.
- •X. Role play.
- •Set Work
- •Set Work
- •VI. Give the gist of the article.
- •VII. Points for discussion.
- •Век бы свободы не видать!
- •Set Work
- •Set Work
- •I. Say what is meant by the following words and word combinations. Reproduce the situations in which they were used.
- •II. Find in the article the English for:
- •III. Interpret the lines below.
- •IV. Comment on the author’s choice of the headline and formulate the key idea running through the article.
- •V. Points for discussion.
- •How british burglars pick their victims
- •Set Work
- •I. Master the pronunciation of the words below. Learn and translate them.
- •II. Explain what is meant by:
- •III. Look through the article for the following English equivalents of:
- •IV. State the difference between the words below. Give examples to illustrate their usage.
- •V. Translate the following sentences.
- •VI. Pete (the burglar described in the article) says he is ten stone. How many kilos is it? How many stones do you weigh?
- •VII. Interpret the idea expressed in the lines below.
- •VIII. Points for discussion.
- •A life inside
- •I. Define the following words and word combinations. Reproduce the situations in which they occur.
- •II. Scan the article for the English equivalents of:
- •III. State the difference between the words below. Give examples to illustrate their usage.
- •IV. Explain what is meant by:
- •V. Say whether you agree or disagree with the lines below.
- •Set Work
- •I. Explain the meaning of the words below. Say how they were used in the article.
- •II. Give the English equivalents of the following word combinations:
- •III. Comment on the statements below.
- •IV. Translate the following sentences.
- •V. Points for discussion.
- •VI. Speak about your stand on capital punishment as “the only way to deter criminals”. To back up either of your viewpoints use the key statements.
- •«Палач является в застенок со всеми инструментами» так добивались правды
- •Set Work
- •III. Practise the pronunciation of the words below:
- •IV. Explain what is meant by:
- •V. State the difference between the following words, give examples to illustrate their usage.
- •VI. What other arguments for and against capital punishment can you add to the list?
- •40 Тезисов в осуждение убийцы
- •Set Work
- •Set Work
- •I. Choose the correct meaning according to the passage.
- •II. Give the Russian equivalents of the following vocabulary units:
- •III. Say if the problem of capital punishment has always been vital. Back up your opinion. Как, где и за что казнят
- •Set Work
- •Set Work
- •Set Work
- •Set Work
- •Set Work
- •II. Find in the article the Russian for:
- •III. Say if you share the idea expressed in the sentences below:
- •IV. Explain the difference between:
- •V. Points for discussion.
- •VI. Render the article into English, trying to use as many words under study as you can.
- •VII. Comment on the headline and formulate the author’s message.
- •Inside the new alcatraz
- •Set Work
- •IX. Points for discussion.
- •X. Comment on the headline.
- •XI. Describe a prison for hard-core criminals, as you see it. Смертникам жизнь хуже расстрела
- •Set Work
- •Set Work
- •I. Think of the best English equivalents of:
- •II. Say what you know about:
- •State power and crime
- •Set Work
- •I. Say what is meant by the words and word combinations below:
- •II. Find in the article the English for:
- •III. Say how you understand the lines below and enlarge on the idea.
- •IV. Is it possible to oppose the demoralization of the very fundaments of the life of the nation? What is the general path of the sanitation of public life and the state itself?
- •V. Sum up the main points of the article. Какие законы нам не указ Почему россияне не верят в законы
- •Set Work
- •I. Think of the best English equivalents of:
- •II. What’s the English for?
- •The holocaust in the dock
- •Set Work
- •VII. Give the gist of the article.
- •VIII. Describe the Swiss-Nazi case and formulate the author’s vision of the problem.
- •IX. How is the Swiss-Nazi case likely to end? What’s the rub? Will justice be done at long last? the making of a suicide bomber
- •Set Work
- •I. Master the pronunciation of the words below. Learn and translate them.
- •II. Explain the meaning of the words below. Say how they were used in the article.
- •III. Look through the article for the English equivalents of:
- •IV. Say what you know about:
- •V. Write out expressions with the word “suicide” and explain what they mean.
- •VI. Say whether you agree or disagree with the following statements and enlarge on them.
- •VII. Points for discussion.
- •VIII. Do a library research on some terrorist organisation and make a short report in class. Terrorist infiltrations
- •Set Work
- •VI. Comment on the author’s choice of the headline and formulate the message.
- •VII. Points for discussion.
- •VIII. Say if you’ve read any of the books mentioned in the article. Do such kinds of books appeal to you? hacking for dollars
- •Set Work
- •I. Learn and practise the pronunciation of the words below. Translate them into Russian.
- •II. Define the computer-related word combinations used in the article. Reproduce the context in which they were used.
- •III. Find in the article the English for:
- •IV. Say what is meant by the words and word combinations below. How were they used in the article?
- •V. State the difference between the words below. Give examples to illustrate their usage.
- •VI. Clarify the idea behind the following lines.
- •VII. Outline the main points of the article and dwell upon each of them.
- •VIII. Points for discussion.
- •IX. Make up a dialogue between two cybercops. Use the words from the article.
- •Set Work
- •I. Learn the pronunciation of the words below. Translate them into Russian.
- •II. Define the words and word combinations below. Say how they were used in the article.
- •III. Scan the article for the English equivalents of:
- •IV. Look through the article for the word combinations with the word “online.” Write them out and explain what they mean.
- •V. Explain what is meant by:
- •VI. Fill in the correct preposition. Check against the text.
- •VII. Say how you understand the following lines.
- •VIII. Points for discussion.
- •Internet как инструмент совершения киберпреступлений
- •Set Work
- •I. Render the above given article into English.
- •II. Points for discussion.
- •Spyware hits business
- •Set Work
- •I. Master the pronunciation of the words below. Learn and translate them.
- •II. Explain what is meant by:
- •III. Look through the article for the English equivalents of:
- •IV. What do the following abbreviations stand for:
- •V. State the difference between the words below. Give examples to illustrate their usage.
- •VI. Add some more words to the given string.
- •VII. Fill in the correct prepositions. Check against the text.
- •VIII. Interpret the lines below.
- •IX. Points for discussion.
- •Mobile phone crime blitz launched
- •Set Work
- •Set Work
- •VI. Sum up the key points of the article.
- •VII. Points for discussion.
- •The gentleman thief
- •Set Work
- •Drugs and crime
- •Set Work
- •I. Transcribe and learn the following words:
- •II. Find out and say what is meant by:
- •III. Say what you know about the units of weight mentioned in the article. In what connections were they used?
- •IV. Reveal the difference between:
- •V. Say how you understand:
- •VI. Learn the pronunciation of the following deadly drugs.
- •VII. Give English equivalents for:
- •VIII. Answer the following questions.
- •IX. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Наркотикам – бой…и герл
- •Set Work
- •Set Work
- •I. Define the words and word combinations below. Reproduce situations in which they occur in the article.
- •II. Look through the article for the following English equivalents:
- •III. Specify the meaning of the prefix over-. Write out the examples with this prefix from the article and explain their meaning. Think of some other examples and dwell upon them.
- •IV. Say how you understand the given lines.
- •V. Points for discussion.
- •Тяга к наркотикам ничуть не ослабла
- •Set Work
- •Set Work
- •I. Say what is meant by the following vocabulary units and in what connection they are used in the article.
- •Вам марихуаны? пожалуйста!
- •Set Work
- •Set Work
- •V. What addictive substances are mentioned in the article? In what ways are they consumed by addicts?
- •VI. Explain how you understand the following phrases:
- •VII. State the difference between the words below. Give examples to illustrate their usage.
- •VIII. Interpret the idea expressed in the given lines.
- •IX. Give the gist of the article and formulate its key idea.
- •X. Comment on the headline.
- •XI. Points for discussion.
- •A shot of sanity
- •Set Work
- •VIII. Give the gist of the article and say what you think of the idea put forward by the author.
- •IX. Points for discussion.
- •Cocaine cartel smashed
- •Set Work
- •I. Think of the best English variant to say:
- •Set Work
- •Set Work
- •I. Supply the English equivalents for the following words and word combinations:
- •Set Work
- •Set Work
- •I. What answers to the above questions does the article offer?
- •II. Scan the article for the English equivalents of the Russian words below and learn them.
- •III. Explain what is meant by:
- •IV. Make up a dialogue (based on the words from task II) between two criminologists.
- •V. Points for discussion.
- •I. Render the below article into English.
- •II. Say whether you share the author’s thesis. How it all starts inside your brain
- •Set Work
- •I. Master the pronunciation of the words below. Learn and translate them.
- •II. Define the following words and word combinations below. Reproduce the situations in which they occur.
- •III. Scan the article for the English equivalents of:
- •IV. Explain what the following abbreviations stand for.
- •V. State the difference between the words below. Give examples to illustrate their usage.
- •VI. Explain how you understand:
- •VII. Say what you know about:
- •VIII. Find in the article the evidence to support the following statements.
- •IX. Points for discussion.
- •Агрессивное поведение запрограммировано еще при рождении преступник разрушает сам себя
- •Set Work
- •VI. Sum up the main points of the article and say if you share the journalist’s stand.
- •VII. Points for discussion.
- •1. Is society or are people to blame for different misdemeanors and felonies? 2. How can people be made less aggressive? of criminals and ceos
- •Set Work
- •V. Interpret the lines below.
- •VI. Say what you know about:
- •VII. Sum up the key points of the article and formulate the author’s thesis.
- •VIII. Comment on the choice of the headline.
- •IX. Points for discussion.
- •Set Work
- •VI. Do you agree that:
- •VII. Sum up the key points of the article.
- •VIII. Points for discussion.
- •Death penalty
- •Убийство должно караться смертью!
- •Cops and robbers (and drug pushers and murderers…)
- •I. Read the following article to find out:
- •Computer hacking – high-tech crime
- •II. Find words or phrases in the text which mean the same as:
- •III. Now complete these statements by choosing the answer which you think fits best.
- •Vocabulary Tests
- •I. Crime. Put each of the following words and phrases into its correct place in the passage below.
- •II. Law breakers. Give the name of the defined law breaker.
- •III. Law breakers. Match the criminal with the definition.
- •IV. Law breakers. Choose the right answer.
- •V. Law breakers. Choose the correct answer.
- •VI. Law breakers. By moving vertically or horizontally (forwards or backwards) find twelve kinds of criminal.
- •VII. Police. Choose the right answer.
- •VIII. Trial. If you commit a crime you may be:
- •IX. Trial. Choose the right answer.
- •X. Trial. Choose the right answer.
- •XI. Punishment. Match each punishment with its description.
- •XII. Punishment. Choose the right answer.
- •XIII. Punishment. Put each of the following words and phrases into its correct place in the passage below.
- •Trial by Jury
- •XIV. Crime and punishment. Choose the right answer.
- •XV. Crime and punishment. Choose the word or phrase that best keeps the meaning of the original sentence if it is substituted for the capitalized word.
- •Vocabulary Test
- •Фантастический процесc
- •Set Work
- •Твое имя в грязи
- •Methods and measures
- •Третье место за воровство
- •Is a crime crackdown a challenge of the time?
- •Государственное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования «Липецкий государственный педагогический университет»
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Death penalty
The death penalty is the subject of wide speculation. Many writers have paid attention to such a theme. For example, in Dostoyevsky’s book Crime and Punishment the theory of Raskolnikov allows one to murder people. Is it right to kill a person, even a terrible and unpleasant, one to make others happy? Is it right to decide another’s fate in place of God? This question has been always discussed. I don’t support murders. Nevertheless, it’s just my point of view and judging from it, I believe that criminals must be punished.
Crimes are committed every day. They can be minor or very serious, even monstrous. Imagine a maniac? For example, a sex fiend, who is guilty of having murdered several tens of victims. He is usually sent to a prison or to a mental hospital to spend some years there. It happens in many countries. A maniac “vindicates” himself in a jail or n a clinic, spends several years, and then gets freedom. I don’t think that some years in a mental hospital or a prison can correct the condition of a maniac. When he is free, he will kill or hurt people again. Being cruel and ruthless, he wills his own way through his crowd of victims.
Sometimes criminals are sentenced to life imprisonment. It’s not enough for a person who tortured tens of bodies by cutting off their extremities or putting out somebody’s eyes, for example. Of course, many people think that the death sentence is not the best way of punishing criminals. They say that execution is the same as “an eye for an eye”; that it’s a sin to kill any man. However, they forget how many innocent victims the maniac has butchered.
I think that only people who committed grave or serious crimes with perversions must be executed. The others should remain alive. I object that they are sentenced to be killed by firing squad, by hanging, by using the guillotine or the gas chamber.
I think that the most acceptable way of executing is electrocution or using fast acting poison. No doubt, to discuss the methods of putting someone to death is awful. Some people think that it’s easier to discuss the problem instead of solving it. I don’t think so. I vote for the use of the death penalty, but not for teenagers and women. Maybe I think so because of the recent events of acts of terrorism, when we saw so many innocent people die.
By Yulia Gorshkova
/from English, 24/2004/
Убийство должно караться смертью!
«Должна ли применяться в России смертная казнь?» «КП» от 26 июня 2001 г.
В вашей газете обсуждался этот вопрос. Результат оказался фифти-фифти. Спасибо газете за объективность опроса. В большинстве же случаев пресса и ТВ предоставляют возможность выступления на эту тему лицам, которые являются сторонниками отмены смертной казни. В своем письме хочу коснуться наказаний, связанных лишь с преднамеренным убийством людей, за которое раньше предусматривалась смертная казнь.
Убийство человека – это тягчайшее преступление, которое в большинстве случаев совершается с особой жестокостью. И оно не только отбирает у человека самое дорогое – жизнь, но и обрекает на сердечные муки близких ему людей. И если преступник, осужденный на пожизненное заключение, испытывает мучения из-за отсутствия свободы, то родители, например, убитой девочки, которую перед смертью истязал преступник, оказываются несчастными на всю жизнь. Они будут до конца своих дней носить на кладбище цветы и зажигать в церкви свечу. Что поразительно, мне ни разу не пришлось слышать в дискуссиях об отмене смертной казни о сочувствии к этим душевно покалеченным людям, которых больше, чем убийц.
Я уверен, что все голосующие за отмену смертной казни – это благополучные люди, гуманисты-теоретики. Всем известно, что в свое время существовала вендетта. С развитием государства процедура наказания была возложена на него. Но наказание должно быть адекватным преступлению. За умышленное убийство возмездием может быть только смерть. Мне кажется, что Парламентская ассамблея Совета Европы в основном состоит из благополучных лиц, которые могут легко абстрагироваться от действительности. И что поразительно – страны находятся под прессингом этого совета. Так случилось и с Россией.
П.А. Пшеничнкин,
пенсионер и жертва убийц сына
вот уже 19 лет.
Московская область.
BEWARE – PENSIONERS AHEAD!
When people think about criminals, they rarely imagine old pensioners. Well, in Britain this may be changing. According to Prudential, Britain’s biggest pension company, over 100,000 pensioners have turned or are thinking of turning to crime. Charges include fraud, shoplifting, drug-dealing and even bank robbery.
That’s why Kingston prison in Portsmouth has recently become the first British prison to have a separate prison wing for elderly prisoners. It now houses fifty people. The ‘pensioners’ unit has special lifts and equipment to help elderly prisoners get to the upper floors. The staff have been trained to provide medical care. The cost of keeping elderly offenders is three times more than that of younger prisoners.
So who are those pensioners and why do they do it?
The majority of elderly people who commit crime have no previous crime record. They often use their image of helpless people to commit their offences. Interestingly, they are not the poorest pensioners, as you might expect, but mainly middle class people. They have worked hard all their life and got used to a relatively high standard of living which is very difficult to maintain as a pensioner. For example, one pensioner sold drugs to get £1000 to buy his granddaughter a present. How often do you get presents worth £1000? Also, people in Britain have got used to spending more than they can afford by taking out numerous bank loans and running credit card bills. Whereas before, people always tried to save as much money as they can for retirement, now more and more people decide to spend most of their money on nice things and expensive holidays while they are young.
So, what is the solution?
Unfortunately, there seems to be no easy solution. With people living longer but saving less money, the problem is likely to get worse. So, if you hear about an old British pensioner committing the greatest bank robbery in history – don’t get too surprised.