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• Overall rate in England and Wales remains stable
• Burglary, fraud and shoplifting all rise
Alan Travis
The murder rate in England and Wales has fallen to its lowest level in 20 years, with 648 homicides recorded in 2008-09 – 136 fewer than the year before. Home Office statisticians said the drop was “not a blip”. Annual crime figures published yesterday show the number of murders and manslaughters and infanticides fell to a level not seen since 1989. Attempted murders also fell by 7 % last year.
The crime figures also show that the recession has so far had a less than expected impact on the underlying crime rate, although domestic burglary has risen by 1 % in the past year, fraud has risen by 5 % and shoplifting has increased by 10 %.
But the overall crime rate in England and Wales in the 12 months to March 2009 is officially declared to have remained stable with an estimated 10.7m offences as measured by the British Crime Survey (BCS). Crime in England and Wales actually fell by 5 % according to the less reliable police-recorded crime figures.
Some individual categories of crime, such as credit card and online fraud are showing increases. But an apparent 25 % surge in personal thefts, including pickpocketing and “stealth” theft.
Overall violent crime was reported to have remained stable by the BCS. Violence against the person involving injury fell by 7 %.
There was a significant further fall in gun crime with the number of incidents involving a firearm down by 17 %. The number of fatal shootings also fell.
The Home Office chief statistician, David Blunt, said there was little change, however recorded, in overall levels of knife crime. This is despite recent government claims to have made progress in the most-affected areas. The number of fatal stabbings has fallen in the past but attempted murders involving a knife were up. Robberies involving knives were down 2 %.
Credit card fraud, particularly involving online shopping transactions, continues to rise. The annual crime figures also show sex offences fell, but within that figure rapes of women increased.
Public confidence in the police and local councils to tackle antisocial behaviour appears to have increased.
This is the last annual set of crime figures to be published before the general election.
The Guardian, July 16, 2009
Task 2. Find infinitive constructions in the article, write them down. Translate the sentences into Russian.
Task 3. Listen to Audio Track 15.1 and Audio Track 15.2 and transcribe them. What genre are they? Identify culturally marked words in them.
Task 4. What offences that are mentioned in the audio tracks are not listed in the article above?
Task 5. Watch Video 15.1 and get its idea.
What is a rogue trader and a hedge fund?
Write down the legal terms that you came across in the material.
Task 6. Watch Video 15.1 again, restore its transcript. Below goes its grid.
The lead:
1. He’s been … of collapse.
2. A court in Paris … be punished.
3. He’s always … was doing.
4. Prosecutors are …
The report:
1. Four … of the rules.
2. Accused of … faked hedge transactions.
3. But his … was not unusual.
4. According to the … madder bets.
5. As long as … cared.
6. For some, … modern banking.
7. Jérôme Kerviel …
Task 7. What grammatical construction did you came across while working with the material? What financial terms are there in the piece?
Task 8. Study the italicised terms, read the article below and get its essence.
What new information does the article carry compared with Video 15.1?
Rogue Trader at Société Générale Gets Jail Term
Nicola Clark
Jérôme Kerviel, the former Société Générale trader whose rogue dealings almost brought about the French bank’s demise, was convicted of breach of trust and other crimes Tuesday and sentenced to at least three years in prison in Paris. Mr Kerviel, 33, was also ordered to pay a huge restitution, equal to the entire amount the bank lost in unwinding his trades in early 2008.
Mr Kerviel was sentenced to five years, with two suspended, and barred for life from working in financial services. Wearing a dark suit, black tie and starched white shirt, he stood impassively while the verdict was read, betraying no emotion. Mr Kerviel’s lawyer said he would appeal immediately.
The prosecutors had requested that Mr Kerviel spend at least four years behind bars. The maximum penalty possible on the charges faced by the former trader – breach of trust, forgery and unauthorised use of the bank’s computers – was five years.
Mr Kerviel acknowledged at his trial that he had falsified documents and entered fake trades to hide his activities, but he maintained that his bosses had deliberately turned a blind eye to what he was doing and had tacitly encouraged him as long as it was profitable.
Daniel Bouton, the former chief executive and chairman of the bank, has described Mr Kerviel as “a crook, a fraudster and a terrorist” who acted alone and nearly destroyed the bank.
In the aftermath of the scandal, Mr Kerviel spent five weeks in pretrial detention and became something of a French folk hero. Much was made of the fact that someone from such a modest background – his mother was a hairdresser, his late father a metal-shop teacher – could dupe so many of his bosses, many of them well-bred graduates of France’s best schools.
The Guardian, October 5, 2010
Task 9. Find special terms in the second half of the material (they are not marked). Read the piece again, find clichés and idioms in it.
Task 10. Define the syntactical structure of the headline, translate it into Russian.
Task 11. Watch Video 15.2 lead, transcribe it and get its major idea. You would need the following proper names: Colin Howl Castlerock, and a special term exhaust fumes.
Task 12. Watch Video 15.2 to the end, concentrate on its details to close the information gaps.
1) the crime was committed …
2) the two murdered were believed to be victims of …
3) actually, they were … with …
4) the motive behind Colin Howl’s action was …
5) Colin acted not alone but with …
Task 13. What accent do you hear in the clip?
Task 14. Now, concentrate on the lexical and morphological analysis of Video 15.2 First close the gaps below.
1. … he hid the …1-2… from this coastal community.
2. (they) died in a …1-2…
3. Neighbours believed they had …1-4…
4. Her husband had staged …1-3… before escaping.
5. Few people questioned the …1-2… until Colin Howel’s …3-8…
6. then he …1-3… in a financial …4…
7. He felt it …1-4…, contacted a Christian friend, and …5-8…
8. Howel was a cosmetic dentist of …1-2…
9. His …1-3… has gripped Northern Ireland.
10. Trevor’s Bukanan’s friends were …1… when his …2-3… became …4-6…
Task 15. Watch Video 15.3, get its idea.
What criminal offence is in the media spotlight? Who is the perpetrator?
Name all the realia in the brief.
Task 16. Watch Video 15.4 and say whether it is linked with Video 15.3.
Task 17. Fill in the gaps with special terms and idioms, analyse the syntactical structure of the sentences below (Video 15.3).
1. The former …1… …2… has become the first politician to …3… …4… and …5-8… of …9-11…
2. Lord Taylor of Warwick …1… 11,000 pounds by …2-4… between Westminster and a home in Oxford he said he owned, but in fact, never …5-6…
3. But today it was he who felt …1-5….
4. No apology, in fact, no apology at all from the first parliamentarian …1-2… …3-7… over the expenses scandal.
5. As the … said, those were journeys that didn’t happen from a home that wasn’t his.
6. As a layer and a member of the House of Lords, …1-2… would and should have been …3-6…
7. …1-2… claimed he was encouraged to …3-6… by other peers but the …7-9… said …10-11… had …12… …13-15…
8. He’s been …1-3… and will …4-5… at a later date.
Task 18. What grammatical constructions can you identify in Video 15.3? Name them.
Task 19. Identify at least five descriptive adjectives in the report and put them down.
Task 20. Watch Video 15.5. Unravel itsidea with 5W and H pattern.
Task 21. Watch Video 15.5 again and find English equivalents of the terms and group of words.
полицейский участок задушить жертву
появиться в суде следователь
расследование улики
обвинение отпущен под залог
обвиняться в убийстве наручники (надеть наручники)
предварительное судебное разбирательство / слушание
находиться на скамье подсудимых
В суде он подтвердил свое имя и фамилию.
Task 22. Watch Video 15.5 again and put the terms above into the context.
Task 23. Find four lexical nominative constructions in the report.
Task 24. Watch Video 15.6, transcribe it and make syntactical analysis of the piece. You may need to know the term propofol.
Task 25. Study the following word list.
to set out (plans) proof dog fouling
a sliding scale of … injunction “community trigger”
to rebrand to breach asset seizure
at the discretion of somebody
Task 26. Listen to Audio Track 15.3 and transcribe it. Check the transcript in class.
Task 27. Answer the questions.
1. What are ASBOs and what do they tackle with?
2. What are they to be replaced with? Why?
3. What are community protection orders? How are they known otherwise?
Task 28. What are grammatical features of the sentences below?
1. Sentence No 2 in the interview (We think…).
2. Sentence beginning with There’ll also be… (the report).
3. Sentence beginning with The government also… (the report).
Task 29. Listen to Audio Track 15.4, transcribe its lead. What is the idea of the report in general?
Task 30. Listen to the whole of Audio Track 15.4 and get its essence.
Task 31. Listen to the report, write down all the terms you came across while listening to the piece.
What do the following numbers stand for: 28 – 14 – 6?
Task 32. Listen to Audio Track 15.5,get its idea. You may need to know the meaning of the word stalker / night stalker.
Task 33. Transcribe the lead. Analyse the syntactical structure of sentence No 2. Answer the questions below.
1. What is the man convicted of?
2. What are his name and age? How long has he been on the loose?
Task 34. Listen to the rest of Audio Track 15.5. Put the following words into the context of the report. Translate the sentences you have got.
1) awful and disturbing crimes;
2) frail elderly people;
3) consistent methods;
4) undercover surveillance;
5) to be frightened, confused or ashamed.
Task 35. Name all realia in Audio Track 15.5. Write them down. What class do they belong to?
Task 36. Close the gaps in the sentences below (Audio Track 15.5).
What grammatical structures are used in the script?
What are syntactical features of the sentences in question?
Translate the sentences into Russian.
1. In …1-2… she described how a man …3-5… her home and raped her.
2. His methods …1-2…: during the night he …3-5… the homes of old people …6-8…, …9-11… and …12-14… before …15… the victim and …16… …17-18… on their face, demanding cash and sometimes – sex.
3. Police …1… they can …2… Grant to …3… 203 other offences on their files but they admit that …4-5… of his elderly victims …6-7…, …8-10… to even report their attacks, …11-12… may have been far higher.
Task 37. Watch Video 15.7. What new information does it carry compared with Audio Track 15.5? Put it in separate sentences below.
1. …
2. …
N. …
Task 38. Read the article below and say what crime is reflected in it. What are its underlying reasons?
What gente is the piece? Make its linguistic analysis. Identify all realia in it.
Sham marriages on “unprecedented scale”
Tom Pugh
The scale of the sham marriages was on an unprecedented scale involving “classic exploitation” of foreign nationals desperate to stay in the UK, investigators said.
Cash-strapped Eastern Europeans were promised sums of up to £3,000 to marry Africans to help them gain residency in the UK and a chance of a better life.
Through gaining indefinite leave to stay in the UK, the Africans, mainly from Nigeria, would be able to enjoy Britain’s education, healthcare and social benefits systems. A large proportion of the Africans who went through with the sham marriages had arrived lawfully in the UK, either through the asylum process or by gaining a student visa.
Investigators said it was when they had “reached the end of the line” in their legal applications and appeals to stay in the UK permanently that they went through the sham marriage process. Files recovered as part of the inquiry showed that, in some cases, Africans were already married and had children in their homeland.
Detective Inspector Andy Cummins, of the UK Border Agency’s (UKBA) South East region immigration crime team, said: “In the majority of the cases, the reason that most went through with the marriage process was not for love, it was to assist in their application to residency into the UK.”
Both sets of participants were equally vulnerable. The Eastern Europeans tended to be poor migrant workers who found their dreams of making good money gave way to hardship.
Ken Goss, of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said: “It’s classic exploitation. People come into this country expecting jobs, a good life and all that brings with it, then they find themselves in difficult positions and they become vulnerable.”
Officers working on Operation Gomozia arrested the Rev Alex Brown on June 30 last year, along with Buchak, an illegal immigrant and gambler who used the alias Kaido Maesalu.
Further investigations identified pastor and solicitor Michael Adelasoye, who had worked as an immigration adviser at several firms of solicitors.
Before going on trial, Brown pleaded guilty to a charge of solemnising a marriage according to the rites of the Church of England without banns of matrimony being duly published.
The Independent, July 29, 2010
Task 39. Watch Video 15.8 to see how the sham mariage scheme works. You may need the words and expressions listed below.
to cheat an imigration adviser
a spouse visa to expose
a permament residency a fake marriage a fake bride / groom
non-resident law an illegal marriage
a fixer legal advice
scam lucrative honeymoon
Border Agency inspectors an undercover journalist
to overturn the reulations
the Home Office certificate of approval
Task 40. Watch the Video again and restore the context in which the lexical units above are mentioned. Find more special terms in the piece.
Why are sham marriages on the rise in the UK?
Task 41. Revise the active vocabulary of the Unit, get prepared to write a quiz.
FINAL TEST
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