Unit 16. To Be.

Exercise 1. Fill in the gaps with am/is/are. Make sentences negative and interrogative.

Example: Queen Elizabeth II … above law. – Queen Elizabeth II is above law. Is Queen Elizabeth II above law? Queen Elizabeth II isn’t above law.

1. I … so tired! I’ve been working the whole night. 2. The European Union … a supranational polity. 3. I … a student. My sister … a barrister. 4. All MPs … equal. 5. Constitutions with a high degree of separation of powers … found worldwide. 6. The Commonwealth … a voluntary organization of 54 independent countries. 7. The building of court in our city … very old. 8. All men … by nature equally free and independent. 9. The examination … not difficult 10. The Prime Minister … the leader of the Government. 11. The International Court of Justice… the main judicial organ of the UN. 12. NATO and UN … the international organizations.

Exercise 2. Use am / is / are. Translate the sentences from English into Russian.

Example: Britain … also the only country in the EU without a Freedom of Information Act. – Britain is also the only country in the EU without a Freedom of Information Act. Итак, Британия единственная страна в Евросоюзе без Закона о свободе информации.

1. Although the Queen … officially head of all three branches, she has little direct power. 2. “The separation of powers” … a model for the governance of democratic states. 3. Among many titles of the Princess Royal … Chancellor of the University of London. 4. British Commonwealth of Nations … a union of Great Britain and its former colonies. 5. Bills of rights … in their origin, stipulations between kings and their subjects. 6. Impeachment … a formal process in which an official is accused of unlawful activity. 7. Natural rights … rights which … not contingent upon the laws, customs, or beliefs of a particular society or polity. 8. The four independent branches of power in Hungary …: the parliament (legislative), the government (executive), the court system (judiciary) and the office of the public accuser (i.e. attorney general). 9. The courts in Britain … undoubtedly among the most independent in the world. 10. The judicial branch implications … that no part of the executive branch can sue another part. 11. Legal rights … culturally and politically relative. 12. The United Nations … an organization of sovereign nations representing almost all of humanity.

Exercise 3. Use am / am not / is / isn’t / are / aren’t. Write true sentences.

Example: My father-in-law … a judge. He … a prosecutor. – My father-in-law is isn’t a judge. He is a prosecutor

1. I … a post-graduate student of law department. 2. I … afraid of robbers. 3. We … interested in at-trial procedure. 4. Motor-racing … a dangerous sport. 5. Britain … one of the few European countries whose people do not have identity cards. 6. People … really shocked when the government is caught lying. 7. Now only 91 out of about 700 peers … hereditary: the rest are “life peers” who cannot pass on their titles, senior judges (Law Lords) and Church of England Archbishops and Bishops (Lords Spiritual). 8. On the one hand the Queen … certainly one of the richest women in the world, while on the other hand her power … limited by the fact that so many of her expenses … paid for by government money. 9. In reality, it … the Prime Minister who decides who the government ministers … going to be. 10. The Royal Family’s money comes from two sources: government funds and their own personal wealth, which … considerable. 11. The Russian Federation … hereditary monarchy. 12. As soon as it … clear that one party has a majority of seats in the House of Commons, its leader … formally invited by the Sovereign to form a government.

Exercise 4. Write questions with the following words. Use am / is / are.

Example: All party politics/top dressing? – Is all party politics top dressing?

1. The United States/interested in its internal affairs? 2. Everyone in the courtroom/to keep silence? 3. The police/all over the place? 4. The Labour Party/the oldest party in the UK? 5. The jury/ready to bring in the verdict? 6. The governmental policy/strong nowadays? 7. To denote all his life to his country and to work hard/the main task of any President? 8. The exams in civil law/difficult? You serious? 9. Neither I nor my friend/to blame? 10. About 4,000 park workers/on a strike? 11. “Great Expectations”/a favourite book of my scientific supervisor? 12. Everybody/eager to prove that he is innocent?

Exercise 5. Ask the questions. (Read the answers to the questions first).

Example: The professor’s name? – Mr. Johnson. – What’s the professor’s name?

1. Your dean married or single? – He’s married. 2. Where/the witness from? – From Scotland. 3. How old/the prosecutor? – He’s 30. 4. What/the latest news? – Terrible. 5. What colour/the suspect’s hair? – Black. 6. Who/absent at the lecture today? – 10 students. 7. What exam/the most difficult? – Law. 8. Who/the British Prime Minister now? – I don’t know. 9. You a freshman? – No, I’m a sophomore. 11. The Smith’s/engaged in the arson? – Yes. 12. Anybody at home? – No.

Exercise 6. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.

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