Роздатковий матеріал до заняття 12
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Listen to the story and put the pictures in the correct order:
These words will help you to understand the text better:
Landlady -домовласниця, to enjoy - насолоджуватися, seaside - узбережжя, beach – пляж
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Who are the people from the first column? Match the names with the appropriate expressions:
1Yoshiko Miyamatsu a) The director of the school
2 Alan White b) Yoshiko's landlady
3 Mrs King c) A student from Germany
4 Peter Lieb d) A friend of Peter's
5 Carlos Sanchez e) A student from Japan
3 Who says these words?
Yoshiko Carlos Peter
1 I'm from Germany
2 Do you like it in England
3 The school is very good.
4 Do you want to come?
5 She wants me home at six o'clock tonight.
6 Just say you are busy here at the school.
7 She is a very nice lady.
8 Come on, Peter. Let's go to the beach.
9 I am sorry I can't come with you.
10 Bye, Yoshiko. See you in school tomorrow.
4. Study the new words. Learn the words, which are in bold type, by heart.
infamous ['ɪnfəməs] – безчесний;
vigilante [vɪdӡɪ'læntɪ] – самодіяльний наглядач за законом, який вважає, що дій поліції не достатньо;
rural area – сільська місцевість;
to encourage – заохочувати;
fallow citizen – співгромадянин;
desist [dɪ'zɪst] – утримуватися;
to inflict corporal punishment on – піддати когось тілесному покаранню;
to sustain damage – понести ушкодження;
death penalty – смертна кара;
to exact – вимагати;
to ascertain [æsə'teɪn] – встановлювати;
a condemned man - засуджена людина;
to string snugly – прив’язати туго;
noosу – (сильце) петля;
whim – примха;
to choke – душити.
5. Read and translate the text: Charles Lynch
Captain Charles Lynch, of Virginia, author of the infamous lynch law, will forever be linked with “vigilante justice”. Lynch decided that he and his neighbours were too far from lawmakers and sheriffs to punish properly the vandals and robbers terrorizing the rural area. Не encouraged the fellow citizens to sign a declaration he drafted, announcing the intention to “to take matters in their own hands”. “If they (criminals) do not desist from their evil practices, we will inflict such corporal punishment on them, as to us shall seem adequate to the crime committed or the damage sustained.”
Although the death penalty was not always exacted, in most cases the punishment turned out to be hanging. In addition to the fact that many innocent victims suffered lynching, a certain amount of guilt among the lynchers can be ascertain by the very technique for hanging criminals.
Lynch and his cohorts practiced a form of passive hanging. A rope was tied around a tree and the condemned man placed on a horse with the other side of the rope strung snugly around his neck. So the criminal was killed not by the captors tightening the noose, but the whim of the horse. When the horse moved far enough away from the tree, the rope choked the horseman.