Exercises

Ex.1. Ttranslate into Ukrainian:

crime, disruption, treason, felony, misdemeanour, to overthrow, sedition, forgery, guilty, punishment, court, summary offence, riot, robbery, rape, burglary, injury, bribery, extortion, abuse, nuisance, arrestable offence, a term of imprisonment

Ex.2. Fill in the table missing nouns, verbs and adjectives:

NOUN	VERB	ADJECTIVE
modernization	modernize	modern
	Extort
		felonious
	prevent
disruption
punishment
offender
		authoritative
	classify
		corruptible
	Injure
		abusive

Ex.3. Match the English and Ukrainian equivalents:

common law	зрада
to lead to the disruption	суд
treason riot	загальне право визнавати винним
to convict	призводити до руйнування
to lead to the disadvantage	шкодити
Offence	згвалтування
Rape	здійснити крадіжку
to commit a larceny	злочин
Court	бунт, заколот

Ex.4. Explain in Ukrainian the meaning of the following words and expressions:

crime, to commit a crime, to lead to, common law, disruption, to be classified, treason, abduction, stealing, forgery, robbery, perjury, to prevent, abuse, homicide

Ex.5. Put the following words and word-combinations into three logical groups:

extortion, stealing, high treason, assault, bribery, abduction, riot, forgery, homicide, sedition, perjury, rape, trademark pirating, burglary, libel, abuse, smuggling, robbery, pickpocketing, kidnapping, counterfeiting, money laundering, drug trafficking, housebreaking

сrimes against state

crimes against person

crimes against property

Ex.6. Match the following verbs and the nouns:

to commit	the power of the state
to kill	suicide
to destroy	the destruction of the society
to prevent	the monarch
to lead to	a crime
to overthrow	the law
to break	a person

Ex.7. Form words with negative meaning using various prefixes and translate them:

un-	in -	mis-	non-
undisciplined	Invalidity	mis-step	non –moral
………..	………….	…………..	…………….

1. statement, govern, handle, information, representation

2. resident, arrestable, indictable, stop, observance

3. validation, stability, operative, testate

4. intelligent, known, married, fair

Ex.8. Translate the following word-combinations with the word “crime” into Ukrainian:

to prevent
to charge with
to commit
to punish for	a crime
to detect
to deal with
to disclose
to investigate

Ex.9. Put the right form of either rob or steal in the sentences below.

1. Last night an armed gang________ the post office.

2. They ____________₤2,000.

3. My handbag _______________at the theatre yesterday.

4. Every year a large number of banks ____________.

5. Jane _____________ of the opportunity to stand for president.

Ex.10. Complete the following sentences with the words in the box. Translate them:

treasons, summary, offences, crimes, felony, theft,

indictable, shoplifters, law, gangster

1. Al Capone was a Chicago …

2. Indictable ... are those which are usually tried before a judge and jury.

3. A ... was again a serious crime.

4. All other ... were regarded as misdemeanours.

5. The English common ... classified crimes into treasons, felonies and misdemeanours.

6. ... offences are generally concerned with the regulation of behavior in a society and the maintenance of public order.

7. The old classification of crimes involves …, felonies and misdemeanours.

8. The two groups … and non-indictable offences now overlap to some extent.

9. …. steal for various reasons, some just for excitement, some out of necessity or greed, and others do it as a “profession”.

10. Have you told the police about the … of your bicycle?

Ex.11. Choose the correct answers to the following comprehension questions: