C1 Topic 7 Social Relations

Nina Dearle

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Topic 7 Doing Time, Doing Tenses

Vocabulary in Use (Upper Intermediate)

38 Describing people: character39 Relationships60 Politics and public institutions61 Crime

Vocabulary in Use (Advanced)

13 Talking about yourself14 Relationships : positive aspects15 Relationships: problems 16 Passions: reactions and emotions17 Feelings: antipathies and aversions19 Observing others: character traits24 Socialising and networking 40 Authorities: customs and police41 World views; ways of thinking42 Festivals in their cultural context44 History46 British politics47 The language of law48 War and peace

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.Jean-Francois Lyotard (French philospher)

No road is long with good company.Turkish proverb

TOPIC 5: SOCIAL RELATIONS

to do time

The man: essentially the window frame was unsafe and however hard he banged, it shouldn’t have fallen out.The company: the man shouldn’t have banged on the window so hard. The company can’t be responsible for its passengers.The judge: (this is in fact true) the bus was roadworthy and by law must be regularly maintained. Therefore, although the bus company is responsible, they would not reasonably have known about the frame being unsafe and so didn’t have to pay damages.

nouns verbs adjectives

Legal Jargon

State Punishmentnouns verbs adjectives

What are they talking about?

clink

Should prison sentences be for punishment or rehabilitation?

Establish the function of the future in the following sentences:

1. I’ll carry one of your cases for you.

2. Man will colonise the moon in the near future.

3. Shall we dance?4. I’ll kill you.5. I’ll always love you.6. He’s in poor health but he will

smoke.7. I shall go no matter what you say.

Murder and Capital Punishment (possible answers)

1. have been taught

2. is defined 3. becomes 4. have been taken

5. is

6. to be proven 7. are sentenced

8. was supposed 9. (have been) executed

10. have abolished

11. is favoured 12. revealed 13. was intended

14. favour 15. is lost

16. will bring relief

17. have founded

18. have taken 19. involved 20. comes

Law and Order (in court)

accused acquitted barristers Crown Court defence

dock evidence fine guilty guilty

imprisonment judge judge jury Justice of the Peace

Magistrates Court

oath prosecution put on probation sentence

testimony trial verdict witness box witnesses

1 bench (law)2 bench (law)

approach the bench

bench

Listen to the conversation and answer the questions:

1. What does the police officer “find” in the car?

2. What information does the police officer want?

In 2000 the British Government proposed that smacking should remain legal. However, it said it would consider jailing people who use slippers or the cane on children.

Smacking stays legalParents could be jailed

for using slippers or the cane

The Government was able to win an important vote because it had a majority in Parliament.

A minister who might have had to resign from the cabinet lost their seat at a parliamentary election.

A senior member of the opposition tells the media the party is sacrificing one of its key policies.

The largest party in a local council have been surprised by the success of an opposition councillor in a local election.

The Government have denied that the country is becoming a police state under their rule.

What would happen in your country if you:

were caught speeding? accidently killed someone? were caught smoking marijuana? attacked and injured someone? were caught writing graffiti on a public building? were caught shoplifting? murdered someone?

Newspaper Headlines

a) It is likely that the two countries will begin imposing taxes on imports from the other or stop exporting important commodities to the other.

b) Emeria is saying that the Darda government has tortured people or taken political prisoners etc.

c) The Ambassador of Emeria walked out of the UN during a session in protest at what was being said.

d) The situation is becoming very delicate with people anxious about an invasion.

e) There are no indications that the war is coming to an end.f) Emeria has invaded Darda

Dictation:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10318236

The news that moves are underway to ban the sale of e-cigarettes to under 18s in England has been welcomed by health campaigners and one manufacturer of the product.

A 16-year old boy arrested on suspicion of murdering a 17-year-old girl in Surrey has been sectioned under the mental health act.

The Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, has insisted Labour is not anti-business, after criticism of the party’s plans to increase the top rate of income tax to 50p.

The Foreign Secretary, William Hague, has said that the Government is working on plans for Britain to take in some particularly vulnerable Syrian refugees.

In the Ukraine there are reports that several thousand protesters are trying to storm an administrative building in the south east of the country.

Questionnaire analysis

85-100: You are on the extreme liberal end of the social scale. Your strong ideals probably make you an active supporter of human rights movements and lead you to defend the underdog. However your view of society may lean a little too far towards the permissive and libertarian to be practicable.

40-85: Your ideals are still showing, but your feet are firmly on the ground. You have a realistic attitude to the actual workings of the social machine without wanting to interfere too much with individual freedom. You maintain the balance between the radical and conservative tendencies that are present in all of us.

Less than 40: You are likely to be extremely right-wing and have a strong authoritarian streak. You are a great believer in law and order, something of a traditionalist and not prepared to changer your attitudes very easily.

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