I am a student of law Department

Unit 1.

LEGAL EDUCATION

Task 1. Read and render the following text.

I AM A STUDENT OF LAW DEPARTMENT

So, I am a student now. I’m a first-year student of the Law day-time department. I’ve entered the University after finish­ing a secondary school. Ternopil National Economic University – that’s the name of the higher establishment I study at. You know, that was my dream to enter this University. No wonder, as all the membersof our family are in legal profession.

My father used to work as a prosecutor, and now he is a judge in the Appellate Court. He taught me to understand and love the essence of the legal profession. Every time he told that a law-governed state needs highly qualified lawyers to put the legal reforms into effect, and I thought I would be able to contribute to it. My mother is a private notary. She likes her specialty very much. As you see, I took my parents’ way. I worked hard to pass the tests at school well and to enter the University according those results. And now I’ve become a happy member of the great, young family of students.

Many new things and notions came to my life with it. At first, I didn’t know what they meant. Now I became fami­liar with such words as “a freshman”,“a sophomore”, “an undergraduate” and such terms as “a session”, “a semi­nar”, “a credit”. I know what it means “to make notes”, “to pass a modulus”, etc.

I’m still to know more, and first of all how to save time to be able to not only study well, but to take an active part in the students’ life — to join some students’ scientific society and to visit interes­ting gay students’ evening-parties, meetings of our discus­sion clubs and a lot more.

It is very interesting to learn such new subjects as Criminal Law, Criminal procedure, Criminology, Civil law, Civil procedure, International Law and others. The students of our department attend lectures, seminars and tutorials on Theory of State and Law, Administrative Law, Legal history, Constitutional Law, Commercial Law, Labor Law, Financial Law, Family Law and others. I’m fond of everything at the University. I like its great beautiful build­ings, sports complex, its lecture halls, laboratories and stu­dies.

I’m a freshman, as they call the first-year students. It’ll take time to know everything about our Faculty of Law and I shall tell you more about it later.

Task 2. Find in the text the English equivalents for the words below.

Студент денного відділення, Тернопільський національний економічний університет, не дивно, всі члени сім`ї, закінчувати школу, поступати в університет, прокурор, юридичні професії, приватний нотаріус, слідувати чиїмось шляхом, спочатку, студент першого курсу, студентські вечори.

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