Topic Activities

1. Learn the following words:

friction	трение
competitor	конкурент
employer	работодатель
employee	служащий
to apply	применять
to avoid	избегать
to resolve	разрешать
fair	справедливый
essential	существенный
well-being	благополучие, благосостояние
to counsel	консультировать, советовать
matter	дело
to draw	готовить, составлять
will	завещание
deed	документ, акт, свидетельство и т.д.
orderly	организованный, упорядоченный
conduct	поведение
to provide	обеспечить
to establish	устанавливать
charge	обвинение
to prove	доказать
to license	лицензировать
protection	защита
to convict	осудить
to impose	налагать
to employ	употреблять применять
steadily	постоянно
to grow	расти
affair	дело
solution	решение
sense	смысл
glue	клей
to lie	лгать, обманывать

2. Guess the meaning of the following international words:

function, businessman, situation, complete, problem, special, operation, document, contract, to adopt, real, control, organized, civilized, to conduct, civil, legal, representation, criminal, program, political, economic.

3. Translate these words. Pay attention to the word-building elements:

difficult – difficulties, business – man – businessman, to compete – competitor – competition, to employ – employer – employee – employment – unemployment, fair – fairly, to adopt – adoption, to solve – solution, civil – to civilize – civilization – uncivilized, to establish – establishment, to train – training – trainee, to convict – conviction – convicted, to violate – violator – violation, to represent – representation – representative, to govern – government, to protect – protection – protective, to increase – increase – increasingly, law – lawless – lawlessness.

4. Translate the following phrases:

without rules, to apply the rules, to avoid trouble, to counsel people on something, to draw a document, to contribute to something, to solve the problems, to prevent somebody from something, to prove the charges, to violate laws, to be convicted of the offense, to assert one's rights, civil rights, to be entitled to legal advice, legal representation, the demand for good lawyers.

5. Read the text and answer the following questions:

1. Can a society function without rules? Why?

2. Why is it essential to have trained lawyers?

3. What is the role of lawyers in the control of crime?

4. Is the demand for lawyers steadily increasing?

5. What is the lawyer's duty in asserting your civil rights?

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