Lombardi Segni & Associati - Legal English - Leson 7

12:00pm Level B1

Class

• Podcast resources for self study
• Discourse markers in telephone conversations - jigsaw exercise
• Using the phonemic chart - hidden names

Going further

Telephone language: http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/32872816/Using%20The%20Telephone

Pronunciation: http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/11442648/Pronunciation

Homework

Spend some time exploring the phonemic chart. Which sounds are the most difficult to distinguish? Which sounds are the most difficult to reproduce?

1:30pm Level C1/C2

Class

• Discussion and reading - the pros and cons of DPAs
• Listening for structure - the third conditional

See last week's listening at 13:40

"So if they hadn't given you information voluntarily, you might have found out what you needed and you might have prosecuted them and then they would have been convicted, perhaps."

Note the use of multiple result clauses with the same condition clause and how perhaps is used to soften would to suggest a possible outcome as opposed to a certain one. 

Vocabulary

To raise (your) eyebrows - to show surprise or disapproval

To shut the barn door after the horse has bolted

To flag up

To put right

To go some/a long way to doing something

To tackle (something difficult or negative e.g.a problem)
To make a mockery of something 

To rig something - to manipulate fraudulently

To go easy on someone/something

For a pittance

To kick off

Softball, toothless, declawed - lenient, ineffective

Homework

Read your partner's article on DPAs - use the links below:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/13/us-justice-department-criminals-juvenile-offenders
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=ad04ae0c-845d-4690-98f4-faea033fe971