Task II. Check if you remember

1. What is the official name of the country?

2. What four parts does it consist of?

3. What Houses does the Parliament consist of?

4. What are the responsibilities of the Parliament?

5. Where do local government sit?

6. What are their responsibilities?

7. What kind of Constitution does the country have?

8. What are the judges and lawyers guided in their state work?

Task III. Make up questions to the following sentences:

1. The British government comprises three powers. (What?)

2. All these things can be changed at any time by new Acts of Parliament. (When?)

3. The United Kingdom covers over 244,000 square kilometers. (How many?)

4. Yes, the United Kingdom has an unusual constitution which is partly unwritten.

5. The monarch can reign only with the support of Parliament. (Who?)

Task IV. Give the English equivalents:

королевство, конституционная монархия, означать, население, королева, палата, править, отвечать за, правительство, исполнительная, законодательная, судебная, власть, состоять из, судья, юрист.

Task V. Translate the passive constructions:

1. The facts are gathered for court presentation.

2. The identity of the criminal has been discovered.

3. The defendant will be cross-examined.

4. The proofs are being looked for.

Task VI. Change the following sentences into the Passive Voice, use the same tense:

1. The witnesses have identified the criminal.

2. The investigating officers are gathering important evidence.

3. The jury found the accused guilty.

4. The President appoints the Prime-minister.

Task VII. Compose sentences in the Passive using the following words:

1. To arrest, this, man, for murder.

2. An accused, yesterday, imprisonment, to sentence to.

3. This case, just, in the court, to deal with.

4. The investigator, now, to wait.

 

Task VIII. Translate into English:

1. Преступление было совершено вчера.

2. Штраф накладывается за превышение скорости.

3. Отпечатки пальцев были только что обнаружены.

4. Приговор объявляется (сейчас).

Task IX. Put the verb in the correct form:

I (not/love) my husband, he was a cold and selfish man. But I (not/murder) him, either. After dinner last night he said he (want) to check some business papers in his study. He (have) a meeting with Gerald, his business partner, the next morning. He (ask) for some tea. That was about 9 o'clock. I (watch) a rather exciting film on television, so I (tell) Lucy to take it to him. At quarter past nine Doctor Emerson (call). I (notice) the time because we (expect) him to come earlier. I (answer) the front door bell. Trevor (still/shout) in his study. He and Lucy (obviously/have) a serious row. So I (take) the doctor into the sitting-room for a moment. Then Trevor stopped shouting. I guessed Lucy (go) out by the back door. Doctor Emerson went to the study. I think he wanted to persuade Trevor (go) to the hospital for some tests, but Trevor (not/want) to go. I (hear) him shouting again several times over the next twenty minutes. He called him an ignorant country doctor, and later he said something like "There's nothing you can do!" I think Lucy (come) into the house while the doctor (still/talk) to Trevor. I (hear) the front door bang during a quiet few seconds when Trevor (not/shout). I was tired and fed up and went to my bedroom soon after that. My sister (phone) and we (talk) for ages. I (tell) her I (decide) to leave Trevor.

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