(B2.2 Unit 5) The Law

Overall aims for the week: Increase awareness of style and terminology in legal language.  Practice presenting and responding to views and opinions in a formal debate or essay. Follow a complex debate and isolate key points and argument forms used.  Use a variety of legal terms and relevant grammatical forms (passive voice, pronominal adverbs). Project: Write an essay about a legal issue. Read  about court cases involving social media. Listen  to various pieces about different legal systems, drug laws, discrimination and more. Grammar Impersonal passive Inversions Vocabulary ACCOMPLICE ACCUSE ACQUIT ADJOURN ALLEGATION ARREST ATTORNEY BRIBE CASE CONTRACT COURT CUSTODY DEFENCE DEFENDANT EVIDENCE JUDGE JURISDICTION JUROR LITIGATE PROBATION PROSECUTE SENTENCE SUSPECT TESTIFY TESTIMONY TRIAL VERDICT WITNESS Some language used in this week's reading (p 54) 1. Match these: 1. a small sign of something much wider 2. exactly what was just said 3. be extremely helpful 4. legally ambiguous question 5. emerged 6. previously mentioned A. go a long way B. come to light C. grey area D. above E. just that F. the tip of the iceberg Now put A-E in the spaces below: Recently, a number of cases have _______________ involving tweets. It was felt that the ________________ cases were serious enough to bring to court. However, this is just _________________ . Our personal sites are supposed to be ________________ , personal and private. This is a very ________________ because... A little more restraint in the the information that we make public would __________ towards protecting us.

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ACCOMPLICE	ACCUSE	ACQUIT
ADJOURN	ALLEGATION	ARREST
ATTORNEY	BRIBE	CASE
CONTRACT	COURT	CUSTODY
DEFENCE	DEFENDANT	EVIDENCE
JUDGE	JURISDICTION	JUROR
LITIGATE	PROBATION	PROSECUTE
SENTENCE	SUSPECT	TESTIFY
TESTIMONY	TRIAL	VERDICT
WITNESS