Перечень вопросов для подготовки зачетам и вопросы для построения монологического высказывания

1 Семестр

Self-Identification

1. What is your name?

2. How old are you?

3. Where do you come from?

4. Where do you live?

5. How long have you been living (staying) in Nizhny Novgorod?

6. How many are you in the family?

7. What does your father (mother, husband, wife) do?

8. Do you have hobbies?

9. Do you go in for sports?

10. Where did you go to school?

11. What were your favorite subjects at school?

12. Why did you make up your mind to enter the academy?

13. What department are you with?

14. What is your major?

15. Do you enjoy studying in the academy?

Native Place

1. What is your hometown?

2. Is your hometown a nice place?

3.When was it founded?

4.What is it famous for?

5.What places of interest are there in it?

6. What is the weather like in your hometown?

7. Is it expensive there?

8. What kind of place do you live in (for example, a house, an apartment)?

9. How big is it?

10. What is the neighborhood like?

11. Is it close to public transportation?

12. What do you like about it?

13. Is there anything you dislike about it?

Studying in the Academy

1. Do you think that rote-learning is sufficient for most subjects?

2. Do you often use mnemonics?

3. Do you think that the best idea in learning is bury yourself in your books until you know the subject inside out?

4. Do you think that leadership and learning are indispensable to each other?

5. Do you agree that self-development is the best motivation in learning?

6. Does decent education make people socially mobile?

7. Do you think that people should always get jobs according to their qualifications?

8. Do you think that Nizhny Novgorod Branch of Russian Academy of Justice meets the requirements of the labor market?

9. Describe the staff required mostly in the information-based society?

10. Do you believe that it is easy to launch a successful career right off graduation?

Future Profession

1. What kind of work are you going to get?

2. Is it going to be a monotonous or glamorous work?

3. Are the hours going to be irregular and antisocial, or are you going just to be stuck behind a desk?

4. Is the stress level going to be high?

5. Are you afraid of getting a dead-end job?

6. Are you going to be freelance?

7. Would you like being self-employed?

8. Are you ready to take on responsibility that other people’s lives may depend on you?

9. What are lawyers responsible for?

2 Семестр

International Communication. Internet. E-mail

1. What are advantages and disadvantages of the Internet?

2. Do you often use e-mail and chat rooms to get in touch with your friends?

3. Do you often surf the Web?

4. Do you subscribe to newsgroups?

5. Does your ISP screen out unwanted mail and annoying spams?

6. Do you have a good anti-virus software?

7. What do you do when you get garbled files?

8. What do you do when your e-mail is bounced?

9. Do you think that e-learning may become more common as an alternative to traditional learning?

10. Do you think that e-books are beginning to seriously compete with traditional books?

Traveling. The Customs. Hotel

1. Do you enjoy traveling?

2. Have you traveled far?

3. What is the best way of traveling from your point of view?

4. When do travelers have to go through the Customs?

5. Why must travelers fill in a declaration form?

6. What do you show at the Passport Control?

7. Do you enjoy staying at a hotel?

Great Britain and the USA

1. Where is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland situated?

2. What is the capital of Great Britain?

3. What places of interest do you know in Great Britain?

4. Where is the USA situated?

5. What is the capital of the USA?

6. Does it belong to any state?

7. What places of interest do you know in the USA?

Law Enforcement

1. What is the basic police mission?

2. How did the police as a law enforcement organization arise and develop?

3. Is there any police force, organized by central government?

4. What is Scotland Yard and what does it do?

5. Why is the development of the British police system especially significant?

6. When can the police use their powers to stop and search?

7. What document is necessary to carry out an arrest?

8. What rights does an arrested person have?

9. How long can a person be kept in custody before being charged?

10. What are the provisions of the Habeas Corpus Act?

Arrest. Witnesses and Their Testimony

1. Who is called a suspect?

2. When can a person be held in custody by the police?

3. What are allegations?

4. What are the usual types of witness?

Trial and Reaching a Verdict

1. What are the steps of a trial?

2. Who is a jury?

3. How are the jurors selected?

4. Who is the first to make an opening statement?

5. When do the lawyers make objections?

6. What is the purpose of the judge’s instructions?

7. What kind of verdict may the jury return?

8. Who delivers a verdict?