British Council English Courses at the LUISS 13/3

Tuesday 13th March 2012 
11:30 am


GPIV Group 1


Class
Legal Research & Case Briefs
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/24661613/Dealing%20With%20Case%20Law
Court structure & abbreviations
Listening - The "shrink wrap" contract

Useful Sites
To find British and Irish cases
http://www.bailii.org/
To get help with legal abbreviations
http://www.legalabbrevs.cardiff.ac.uk/

Homework
Next week you will have your first assessment - writing a case brief. Please bring with you your notes from today, a good dictionary (or have mobile access to an online dictionary such as http://www.law-dictionary.org/ ) and a case you want to summarise. Go to http://www.bailii.org and print off a case that interests you.

Tuesday 13th March 2012
4pm


GPI Group 10 B2+2
Class


Legal Systems
Civil v. Common Law - Debate Assessed Speaking Task
For a copy of today's materials go to http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/11442642/Legal%20English and click on the link called Introduction to Legal English  to download a copy.

Reporting nouns & verbs p. 94 - 95, 150 - 151 G2

Homework

1. Finish the exercises on page 95 q. 7, 8(a), 8(b)
2. The exercises set on My Language Leader Lab http://www.myenglishlab.com/courses-lang-leader.html
3. Participate in the discussions on My Language Leader Lab. 

N.B. Next week you will have another speaking assessment about amending a law. Please be punctual.