International Communication. Internet. E-mail
1. What are advantages and disadvantages of the Internet?
2. Do you often use e-mail and chat rooms to get in touch with your friends?
3. Do you often surf the Web?
4. Do you subscribe to newsgroups?
5. Does your ISP screen out unwanted mail and annoying spams?
6. Do you have a good anti-virus software?
7. What do you do when you get garbled files?
8. What do you do when your e-mail is bounced?
9. Do you think that e-learning may become more common as an alternative to traditional learning?
10. Do you think that e-books are beginning to seriously compete with traditional books?
Traveling. The Customs. Hotel
1. Do you enjoy traveling?
2. Have you traveled far?
3. What is the best way of traveling from your point of view?
4. When do travelers have to go through the Customs?
5. Why must travelers fill in a declaration form?
6. What do you show at the Passport Control?
7. Do you enjoy staying at a hotel?
Great Britain and the USA
1. Where is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland situated?
2. What is the capital of Great Britain?
3. What places of interest do you know in Great Britain?
4. Where is the USA situated?
5. What is the capital of the USA?
6. Does it belong to any state?
7. What places of interest do you know in the USA?
Law Enforcement
1. What is the basic police mission?
2. How did the police as a law enforcement organization arise and develop?
3. Is there any police force, organized by central government?
4. What is Scotland Yard and what does it do?
5. Why is the development of the British police system especially significant?
6. When can the police use their powers to stop and search?
7. What document is necessary to carry out an arrest?
8. What rights does an arrested person have?
9. How long can a person be kept in custody before being charged?
10. What are the provisions of the Habeas Corpus Act?
Arrest. Witnesses and Their Testimony
1. Who is called a suspect?
2. When can a person be held in custody by the police?
3. What are allegations?
4. What are the usual types of witness?
Trial and Reaching a Verdict
1. What are the steps of a trial?
2. Who is a jury?
3. How are the jurors selected?
4. Who is the first to make an opening statement?
5. When do the lawyers make objections?
6. What is the purpose of the judge’s instructions?
7. What kind of verdict may the jury return?
8. Who delivers a verdict?
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The History of Law and Society
1. Have laws changed since primeval times?
2. What spheres of human life were covered by Hammurabi’s code?
4. What does the ancient Greek concept of law comprise?
5. Why were the first law mainly attributed to divine powers?
6. What was Solomon’s contribution to ancient law?
7. What were the two basic principles of the English system of government at the beginning of the 13th century? How do you understand these principles?
9. What political situation necessitated the granting of the Magna Carta?
10. What events preceded the Bill of Rights?
11. What was remarkable about Napoleon’s new code?
12. What outstanding philosophers of law do you know?
13. What are Sir Thomas More’s major ideas?
14. What are John Locke’s major ideas?
15. What are Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu’s major ideas?
16. What are Voltaire’s major ideas?
17. What are Jeremy Bentham’s major ideas?
18. What are the earliest legal texts of Kievan Rus?
19. How was the legal procedure performed in Moscovy?
20. What were Peter’s reforms in the country’s administration?
22. What are the major features of the Russian legal development in the 9th century?
Criminology
1. What is criminology?
2. What steps can be observed in the development of criminology?
3. What were the earliest criminological theories?
4. What is the main idea of Biological Theory?
5. What is Cesare Lombroso famous for?
6. What are the latest views on the causes of crime?
The Purpose of Punishment
1. What is the main purpose of punishment?
2. What are the types of punishment?
3. What is the problem of capital punishment?
4. What are the arguments for death penalty?
5. What are the arguments against death penalty?
6. Do you believe that punishment can reform a criminal?
Rights and Liberties of the Citizens
1. What is a democratic society?
2. What are the basic human rights?
3. What are the main principles of the due process in a democracy ?
4. How do you understand democratic rights and responsibilities?
5. What is European Court of Human Rights?
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