- •Учебно-методическое пособие
- •Supplementary Reading
- •Great britain (I)
- •1. What do you know about Great Britain? Here is a short test. Choose the correct answer.
- •2. There are a lot of international words, which are used in the text below. Look through the words and put them into the correct boxes: nouns and adjectives. Try to guess their meaning.
- •3. Read the text about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and explain the words and word combinations in bold. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1)
- •4. Complete this chart with information from the text in Ex.3. Then speak about the country.
- •5. Read the text below, translate it, using a dictionary and try to remember the words and word combinations in bold. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (2)
- •6. Read the two texts again and circle the correct answer.
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •7. Find the English equivalents of the following words and phrases in the text above, then make sentences using them.
- •8. Fill in the correct word(s) from the list.
- •9.A) Answer the following questions.
- •9.B) Speak about the parts of the uk, the history of their unification and the difficulties of their peaceful co-existence.
- •10. Look through the information about Great Britain in Ex. 4. Make another chart like this and fill it with the details of your own country. Write a simple introduction to your country.
- •Britain and the British
- •Great britain (II)
- •2. Some fragments of the sentences have been removed from the text. Choose from the fragments the one, which fits each gap.
- •The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (3)
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •9. Look through the text above, then close your books and try to complete the following sentences.
- •9. Answer the questions and speak about the diversity of theory and practice concerning English constitutional law.
- •10. Write a short commentary concerning Russian constitutional law.
- •Great Britain Quiz
- •The usa (I)
- •1. In this unit you’re going to learn about a turning point in American history, but there are lots of famous dates in the history of the usa. Match the date to the important event.
- •2. Read a short article about the United States of America. Then match the words in bold to the definitions.
- •3. Match the opposites.
- •4. Copy the chart in Ex.4, p.4 and complete it with information from the text. Then speak about the usa.
- •5. Read the article about the United States of America and translate it, using a dictionary. Then try to remember the words in bold.
- •6. Mark the sentences as t (true), f (false) or d (don’t know).
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •The usa (II)
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •3. Fill in the appropriate word(s) from the list, then make sentences using the completed phrases.
- •4. A) Match the English and Russian equivalents.
- •4. B) Fill in the correct word(s) from the list.
- •5. Read the text again, then make notes under these headings. Use your notes to talk about the Constitution of the United States of America.
- •6. You are going to read a text about us Congress. Five sentences have been removed from the text. Choose the sentence (a - e), which fits each gap.
- •Congress
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •7.A) Find the English equivalents of the following words and phrases in the text, then make sentences using them.
- •7.B). Underline the correct words in bold.
- •8. Match a) the synonyms b) the antonyms.
- •9. Close your books and try to complete the following sentences.
- •10. Analyse the main differences between the English and American Constitutions in written form.
- •America the beautiful
- •The usa (III)
- •3. Read the text again and circle the correct answer.
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •4. Fill in the correct word(s) from the list.
- •5. Find the words in the text above that mean:
- •6. Find the different word in each line and explain why it is the odd one out as in the example.
- •7. Read the text again, then make notes under these headings. Use your notes to talk about the President of the United States.
- •8. Read a short paragraph about the elections and some functions of the Russian President. Are there any differences between those of American President?
- •9. Fill in the correct prepositions, then make sentences using the completed phrases.
- •10. Compare and contrast the elections and some functions of the Russian and American Presidents in written form. Use the following useful expressions. Start like this:
- •20. A system of government or organization in which the citizens or members choose leaders or make other important decisions by voting.
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •3. Fill in the correct word(s) from the list.
- •Speaking
- •4. Read the text again and explain the functions of different types of courts in England and Wales.
- •5. Read the text and decide which answer a, b, c or d best fits each space. There is an example at the beginning (0). The Federal Judiciary in the u.S.
- •6. Work in pairs. Make 10 questions to the text. Let your group mates answer them.
- •9. Read the following text and explain the word(s) in bold. Then check your answers in Ex.1. And speak about the people in the court, their duties and functions.
- •In the Court
- •10. You’re a reporter for the local newspaper. Write an article with full names, ages, addresses and details of the case you’ve heard in the court.
- •Justice and law (I) Warm up Activities
- •1. Read the following sayings. Are they logical? What do you think of them?
- •Justice and Law in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •3. Match the Russian to the English equivalents.
- •4. Fill in the appropriate word(s) from the list, then make sentences using the completed phrases.
- •5. Read the text again and circle the correct answer.
- •6. Make notes under these headings. Use your notes to talk about justice and law in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
- •7. Read the text and translate it into Russian, using a dictionary. Then try to remember the words in bold. Kinds of Cases
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •8. Give English equivalents for the following words and word combinations, then make sentences using them.
- •9.A) Fill in the gaps with the appropriate word(s) from the list below:
- •9.B) Fill in the gaps with the prepositions:
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •2. Find the English equivalents in the text and remember them.
- •3. Give the Russian equivalents.
- •4. Match the synonyms.
- •5. Fill in the appropriate word(s) from the list, then make sentences using the completed phrases.
- •6. Complete the sentences with one of the words given below.
- •7. Give your definition of the following people:
- •8. Answer the questions on the text.
- •9. Use the questions in Ex. 8 as a plan to talk about the criminal justice process in the usa.
- •10. Use the questions in Ex. 8 as a plan to write about the criminal justice process in Russia.
- •What are these?
- •Supplementary Reading Text 1. This is britain
- •Text 2. The suffragette movement
- •Text 3. This is the usa
- •Text 4. Us constitution
- •Text 5. The english and american constitutions
- •Text 6. English criminal law
- •Text 7. The garden city of asia
- •Text 8. A very beautiful story
- •Part 1.
- •Part 2.
Text 4. Us constitution
The US Constitution is the framework of the US government. It establishes the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. It is also the supreme law of the land, which all public officials are bound by oath to enforce. Moreover, the Constitution guarantees each American certain basic rights.
A «constitution» in American political language means the set of rules, laws, regulations and customs which together provide the political norms or standards regulating the work of the government. The document known as the Constitution of the United States, though a basic document, is only a part of the body of rules and customs which form the whole of the American Constitution. Supreme Court decisions, interpreting parts of the US Constitution, laws, regulations, customs are part of the basic law (the so-called *live constitution). Most historians regard the US Constitution as an essentially conservative document.
One remarkable feature of the US Constitution is its endurance. It is the oldest written national constitution in use in the world. Another remarkable feature of the Constitution is its ability to adapt itself to changing conditions.
The founding fathers knew that the Constitution might have to be changed. So they provided two methods of proposing amendments: by a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress or by a national convention called by Congress at the request of the legislatures in two-thirds of the states. Once proposed, an amendment does not take effect unless it is ratified either by the legislatures in three-fourths of the states or by special ratifying conventions in three-fourths of the states.
The US Constitution consists of the Preamble, seven articles and twenty six amendments, the first ten of them called collectively the Bill of Rights and adopted under the popular pressure in 1791. When the Constitution was first proposed in 1787, there was widespread dissatisfaction because it didn’t contain guarantees of certain basic freedoms and individual rights. The Constitution consolidated those gains of the revolution that were advantageous for the capitalist class. Significantly, nothing was said about the elementary bourgeois-democratic freedoms. In December, 1791, the Congress adopted ten amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, which contains most of the basic rights. The Bill also enumerated *what the government controlled by the oligarchy was not going to be allowed to do. It was, of course, an important democratic gain for the people at that time. But nowadays some of these ten amendments are relatively unimportant.
The First Amendment protects the freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition. The Second Amendment protects the right to bear arms. The Third Amendment protects against quartering of soldiers in private homes, and the Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
The Fifth Amendment provides a right to due process of law and gives rights to accused people, including protection against self-incrimination. The sixth Amendment provides the rights to a lawyer, an impartial jury, and a speedy trial in criminal cases.
The Seventh Amendment provides for jury trials in civil cases.
The Eighth Amendment bars cruel and unusual punishment and excessive bail or fines. The Ninth Amendment declares that the rights spelled out in the Constitution are not all the rights that people have. Finally, the Tenth Amendment reserves to the states and the people any powers not belonging to the federal government.
The Bill of Rights was designed to protect Americans against the power of the federal government. Nothing in the Constitution specifically requires state governments to abide by the Bill of Rights. But in interpreting the Fourteenth Amendment, passed after the Civil War, the Supreme Court has extended most Bill of Rights protections to the states.
In addition to the Bill of Rights, later amendments provide other important rights. The Thirteenth Amendment forbids slavery and outlaws involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime. The Fourteenth Amendment requires equal protection of the laws for all citizens. It also provides that no state can deprive any citizen of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
Several amendments protect and broaden the right to vote. The Fifteenth Amendment forbids denying the right to vote based on race or colour. The Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote. The Twenty-fourth Amendment gives citizens of Washington D.C. the right to vote in presidential elections, and the Twenty-sixth Amendments gives all people 18 years of age or older the right to vote.
*«live constitution» — «живая конституция»
*what the government controlled by the oligarchy was not going to be allowed to do. ... что правительству, которое контролировалось олигархией, не разрешалось делать.
Match the Russian to the English equivalents
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прочность, выносливость
regulations
рабство
bourgeois
существенно, в сущности
dissatisfaction
перечислять
to abide
упорядочение, правило
advantageous
буржуазный
to enumerate
распространенный
essentially
придерживаться
to extend
неудовлетворённость, недовольство
endurance
лишать
servitude
выгодный
wide-spread
расширять, распространять
to deprive
Work in pairs. Say the beginning of the word combinations and let your group mate complete them.
in American political ……………..; the set of ………………; Supreme Court …………….; to be aimed at …………………..; to regard as …………………; wide-spread ………………..; guarantees of basic …………………; to consolidate ………………….; to be advantageous………………; the elementary ………………..; ability to adapt …………………; the freedoms of religion, ……………….; to bar ………………; without …………….….; to forbid ………………..; the rights to a ………………..