- •Предисловие
- •Структура пособия
- •Структура урока
- •Методическая записка
- •1.1. Sound right
- •1.2. Word-building
- •1.3. Full understanding
- •1.4. Practice in communication
- •1.5. General understanding
- •The man who escaped
- •1.6. Scanning practice
- •1.7. Listening practice
- •1.8. Time for fun
- •2.1. Sound right
- •2.2. Word-building (-ist)
- •2.3. Full understanding
- •Work and studies
- •2.4. Practice in communication
- •2.5. General understanding
- •The man who escaped
- •2.6. Scanning practice
- •Not a robber
- •2.7. Listening practice
- •2.8. Time for fun
- •1. Distrust in Lawyers
- •2. Court Talk
- •3.1. Sound right
- •3.2. Word-building:
- •3.3. Full understanding
- •Where do they live?
- •3.4. Practice in communication
- •3.5. General understanding
- •The man who escaped
- •3.6. Scanning practice
- •His name and address was on the wheel
- •3.7. Listening practice
- •3.8. Time for fun
- •4.1. Sound right
- •4.3.3. Прочитайте и переведите: Pete is preparing for the seminar
- •4.4. Practice in communication
- •4.5. General understanding
- •The man who escaped
- •4.6. Scanning practice
- •Caught in his own trap
- •4.7. Listening practice
- •4.8. Time for fun
- •5.1. Sound right
- •5.2. Word-building: -ing, -ism, -an
- •5.3. Full understanding
- •At the Meetings
- •5.4. Practice in communication
- •5.5. General understanding
- •The man who escaped
- •5.6. Scanning practice
- •The monkey detective
- •5.7. Listening practice
- •5.8. Time for fun
- •6.1. Sound right
- •6.2. Word-building:
- •6.3. Full understanding
- •John's composition
- •6.4. Practice in communication
- •6.5. General understanding
- •The man who escaped
- •6.6. Scanning practice
- •Crime Will Be Out Sooner of Later
- •6.7. Listening practice
- •6.8. Time for fun
- •7.1. Sound right
- •7.2. Word-building: -ary, -ory, -ous
- •7.3. Full understanding
- •Steve's story
- •7.4. Practice in communication
- •7.5. General understanding
- •The man who escaped
- •7.6. Scanning practice
- •7.7. Listening practice
- •7.8. Time for fun
- •8.1. Sound right
- •8.2. Word-building: -ify, -ate, -en
- •8.3. Full understanding
- •Elections
- •8.4. Practice in communication
- •8.5. General understanding
- •The man who escaped
- •8.6. Scanning practice
- •How I lost my lighter
- •8.7. Listening practice
- •8.8. Time for fun
- •9.1. Sound right
- •9.2. Word-building: -ly
- •9.3. Full understanding
- •Pete's travel to London
- •9.4. Practice in communication
- •9.5. General understanding
- •The man who escaped
- •9.6. Scanning practice
- •9.7. Listening practice
- •9.8. Time for fun
- •Unit 10
- •10.1. Sound right
- •10.2. Word-building
- •10.3. Full understanding
- •Pete's travel to London (continued)
- •10.4. Practice in communication
- •10.5. General understanding
- •10.6. Scanning practice
- •10.7. Listening practice
- •10.8. Time for fun
- •Unit 11
- •11.1. Sound right
- •11.2. Word-building
- •11.3. Full understanding
- •11.4. Practice in communication
- •11.5. General understanding
- •11.6. Scanning practice
- •11.7. Listening practice
- •11.8. Time for fun
- •Unit 12
- •12.1. Sound right
- •12.2. Word-building
- •12.3. Full understanding
- •Jane's letter
- •12.4. Practice in communication
- •12.5. General understanding
- •12.6. Scanning practice
- •12.7. Listening practice
- •12.8. Time for fun
- •Unit 13
- •13.1. Sound right
- •13.2. Word-building
- •13.3. Full understanding
- •Jane's letter (cont.)
- •13.4. Practice in communication
- •13.5. General understanding
- •The man who escaped
- •13.6. Scanning practice
- •13.7. Listening practice
- •13.8. Time for fun
- •1. Swallowed watch “Not returned”
- •2. Stole bottle of wine — gets seven years
- •3. Twelve old ladies arrested for gambling
- •Unit 14
- •14.1. Sound right
- •14.2. Word-building
- •14.3. Full understanding
- •14.4. Practice in communication
- •14.5. General understanding
- •The man who escaped
- •14.6. Scanning practice
- •14.7. Listening practice
- •14.8. Time for fun
- •Unit 15
- •15.1. Sound right
- •15.2. Word-building
- •15.3. Full understanding
- •15.4. Practice in communication
- •15.5. General understanding
- •The man who escaped
- •15.6. Scanning practice
- •15.7. Listening practice
- •15.8. Time for fun
- •Unit 16
- •16.1. Sound right
- •16.2. Word-building
- •16.3. Full understanding
- •Steve asks questions
- •1. The Monster
- •2. Over again
- •16.4. Practice in communication
- •16.5. General understanding
- •The man who escaped
- •16.6. Scanning practice
- •16.7. Listening practice
- •16.8. Time for fun
- •Unit 17
- •17.1. Sound right
- •17.2. Word-building
- •17.3. Full understanding
- •Pete and Nell go to the pictures
- •Scene I
- •Scene II
- •17.4. Practice in communication
- •17.5. General understanding
- •The man who escaped
- •17.6. Scanning practice
- •17.7. Listening practice
- •17.8. Time for fun
- •Unit 18
- •18.1. Sound right
- •18.2. Word-building
- •18.3. Full understanding
- •Pete and Nell go to the pictures (cont.) Scene III
- •Scene IV
- •Scene V
- •Indefinite Continuous Perfect Perfect
- •18.4. Practice in communication
- •18.5. General understanding
- •The man who escaped
- •18.6. Scanning practice
- •Dna prints
- •18.7. Listening practice
- •18.8. Time for fun
- •Краткий справочник: словообразование, грамматика unit 1
- •§ 1. Притяжательный падеж существительного
- •§ 2. Побудительные предложения
- •§ 3. Числительные
- •§ 4. Множественное число существительных
- •§ 5. Спряжение глагола to be в настоящем времени группы Indefinite (Simple)
- •§ 6. Порядок слов а английском предложении
- •§ 1. Указательные местоимения
- •§ 2. Притяжательные местоимения
- •§ 3. Предложения, начинающиеся с местоимения it
- •§ 4. Как ответить на вопрос What time is it? What is the time? — Который час?
- •§ 5. Разговорный глагольный оборот have (has) got
- •§ 6. Местоимения some, any, no
- •1. Неопределенные местоимения some, any
- •2. Отрицательное местоимение по
- •§ 7. Место наречий неопределенного времени в предложении
- •§ 8. Употребление much, many, few, little
- •§ 9. Разделительные вопросы
- •§ 1. Настоящее время группы Indefinite (Simple)
- •§ 2. Альтернативный вопрос (вопрос выбора)
- •§ 4. Производные неопределенных местоимений
- •§ 5. Возвратные и усилительные местоимения
- •1. Суффиксы существительных -went, -ion
- •2. Суффикс прилагательного -ic
- •§ 1. Причастие I (Participle I)
- •§ 2. Настоящее время группы Continuous (Present Continuous)
- •§ 3. Причастие II (Participle II)
- •§ 1. Герундий (Gerund)
- •§ 2. Модальные глаголы can, may, must, needn't
- •§ 3. Инфинитивная конструкция It is too... To do smth.
- •§ 1. Past Indefinite (Simple)
- •§ 2. Present Perfect
- •§ 1. Present Perfect Continuous
- •§ 2. Сводная таблица настоящих времен
- •§ 3. Степени сравнения прилагательных
- •§ 1. Future Indefinite (Simple)
- •§ 2. Сравнительные конструкции
- •§ 1. Past Continuous
- •§ 2. Past Perfect Continuous
- •Unit 10
- •§ 1. Past Perfect
- •§ 2. Сводная таблица прошедших времен
- •Unit 11
- •§ 1. Future Continuous
- •§ 2. Future Perfect
- •Unit 13
- •§ 1. Времена группы Perfect в страдательном залоге
- •§ 2. Времена группы Continuous в страдательном залоге
- •Unit 14
- •§ 1. Эмфатическое выделение членов предложения
- •§ 2. Сравнительная конструкция с парным союзом
- •§ 1. Согласование времен
- •§ 2. Перевод прямой речи в косвенную
- •§ 1. Бессоюзные придаточные предложения
- •§ 2. Группа существительного
- •Unit 17
- •§ 1. Перевод глагольных форм с суффиксом -ed
- •§ 2. Функции строевьк слов it, one Местоимение it
- •Unit 18
- •§ 1. Придаточные подлежащие
- •§ 2. Придаточное сказуемое
- •Литература
- •Оглавление
17.6. Scanning practice
17.6.1. Read the questions. Be sure you've got them in mind.
1. What is a barrister according to Mr Staughton?
2. What does the phrase «With respect» really mean?
3. What does the judge want?
4. What does the judge say about some words?
17.6.2. Start scanning the text. Don't fail to note your time.
Judge's «respectful» plea for plainer English
A barrister is a man born with a silver spoon in his mouth in place of a tongue. Or so it would appear to Mr Justice Staughton, a judge in the Commercial Court.
The learned judge has become irritated at the linguistic duplicity of counsel, and the way in which they use archaic words to camouflage what is at bottom, an insult.
Writing in the current edition of the quarterly legal journal «Counsel», a learned magazine read by upper echelons of the legal profession, the judge tells about barristers who preface a statement to him with the phrase «With respect». What that really means, says the judge, is «you are wrong».
A statement prefaced with the words «With great respect» means «you are utterly wrong». And if a barrister produces the ultimate weapon of «With utmost respect» he is really saying to the court, «Send for the men in white coats».
The judge wants more plain English used in courts, and less of the legal language of the obscure past, some of which he says has been «obsolete» in ordinary speech almost since the Bible.
Words like «humbly» and «respectfully» are not only unnecessary in written legal documents, they are generally untruthful in oral argument, says the judge with utmost respect.
Judges themselves are, of course, not entirely free of guilt in the matter of exchanges which are not very understandable.
As the courtroom clock moves towards 1 pm, counsel might say: «It might be of value to your Lordship if I were to inform you at this juncture that I have several more questions to ask of to this witness which would take some little while». The judge will reply: «This seems a useful time to adjourn». What they really mean is lunch.
17.6.3. Answer the questions in 17.6.1. (Books closed.)
17.7. Listening practice
17.7.1. Look at the following questions. You'll have to answer them after reading the text.
1. When did they have school?
2. When did Herbert Berk become politician?
3. What is James Steven?
4. Where is he now?
5. What did Charlie Philipps give to Mary Foot when they left school?
6. When did they get married?
7. Where did they move to?
17.7.2. Listen to the story.
17.7.3. Answer the questions in 17.7.1.
17.7.4. Look through the list of words. They will help you to understand the text. twin — близнец
diverge — отличаться adolescence — юность adulthood — взрослость strive — бороться compliment — дополнять clash — сталкивать sheer — простой deliberately — специально quirk — причуда
17.7.5. Listen to the story. Be ready to give the contents of it.
17.7.6. Tell the contents of the story as close to the text as possible.
17.8. Time for fun
17.8.1. Read and translate the following joke:
The excessive bill
Once a man received an exorbitant bill for legal services. He considered the amount excessive, so he went right to the lawyer's office. The conversation went like this:
Client: Is this really my bill?
Lawyer: Isn't this your name on the bill?
C.: Yes.
L.: Who handled it?
C.: One of your secretaries. The tall one with blonde hair and...
L.: Yes, yes. Miss Thompson. She's very accurate. There's no doubt that the bill is correct.
C.: But this is too much for the service I received from your office. I didn't even have the professional services of a real lawyer.
L.: That doesn't have anything to do with it. Here the charge is the same, whether I do the work personally or a secretary takes care of a routine matter such as yours.
C.: But... but it's too much!
L.: Sir, you take care of your business and I'll take care of mine!
C.: Obviously you don't know who I am!
L.: And who are you, sir?
C.: Now I understand this exorbitant bill.
L.: What do you mean?
C.: Simply that I belong to the same profession as you do.
L.: Oh, well! Then there was an oversight. My secretary didn't make a note of that fact. I'm very sorry
about the mistake.
C.: Oh, that's all right. It could happen to anyone.
L.: So you're a member of my profession, eh? Well, in that case, I'll give you a discount of seventy-five
percent.
C.: That's better! Now that bill is for a reasonable sum, I'll pay it right away. Here's the money.
L.: Thank you very much. I hope that you'll forgive this mistake.
C.: Naturally. After taking the money, the lawyer sees his client to the door with great respect and courtesy, and says:
L.: But tell me, friend, where is your office?
C.: Oh, I don't have an office.
L.: But you just told me that you had the same profession as I do.
C.: Yes, I did. I'm a thief too!
17.8.2. Can you complete each sentence in the first list with the appropriate phrase from the second?
1. The telephone operator A. lack of hard work
put through B. by their younger brothers
2. I have out by or sisters
3. She was dreadfully put C. his shoulder, playing
out Rugby
4. If it rains we shall D. enough money for a win-
have to put off ter holiday
5. How can you put up E. your address before I
with forget it
6. George has put out F. the barbecue in the gar-
7. I must put down den tonight
8. We would be happy to G. the noise and fumes of
put you up town life
9. We put his failure H. I shall stop smoking
down to I. by his unkind remarks
10. If cigarettes are put up J. if you would like to stay
11. Older children are the night
often put upon K. a warm jumper and hea-
12. When he began to vy coat
shiver he decided to L. the call from London
put on