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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: FOR AND AGAINST

Read the text and translate it in writing:

The ultimate penalty is death (capital punishment). It is carried out by hanging (Kenya, for example); electrocution, gassing or lethal injection (U.S.); beheading (Saudi Arabia); or shooting (China).

/. Read the text again and decide which sentences are true and which ones are false.

1. Many European countries support the idea of capital punishment abolition.

2. 18 countries of the world have abolished capital punishment.

3. Every year a lot of criminals are executed in Japan.

. //. Read the article again and complete the sentences

1. In . capital punishment is carried out by hanging.

a) The USA;

b) China;

c) Kenya

2. The UN supported .

a) the abolition of capital punishment;

b) the death penalty;

c) execution by lethal injection

Exercise 2. Give the English equivalents for the following

• смертная казнь через повешение

• отменить казнь на электрическом стуле

• лишение свободы сроком на 2 года

Exercise 3. Sentences 1—5 below are incomplete. Choose one of the words in brackets, that best completes the sentence.

1. How would you (punish / punishment) somebody for stealing?

2. The support the idea of capital punishment (abolish / abolition) in their country.

Text II. Read and translate in writing the newspaper article devoted to family violence.

It is impossible to calculate how much of the crime and imprisonment in this country is caused, directly or indirectly, by family violence.

About 80 per cent of women in prison have been victims of child abuse, sexual abuse, or domestic violence.

/. Choose the best title for this newspaper article.

a) Family Courts.

b) How to Start Divorce Proceedings.

c) When Cops and Courts Step in.

//. Tick off the true statements.

1. Family violence is the course of various crimes.

2. Policemen don't consider this crimes to be serious.

///. Circle a), b) or c) to complete the sentences.

1. A woman begins taking action when

a) her own financial resources improve

b) she wants to divorce her husband

c) her relatives insist on it

2. Cops detest domestic calls because

Exercise 1. Match the words marked with figures with their definitions.

I) abuser a) person given or left as a pledge that demands will

2) hide be satisfied

3) bruise b) freedom from danger

4) resources c) husband or wife

Exercise 2. Give the English equivalents for the following words and expressions

перелом в ходе истории

стать взрослым

прятать синяки

Exercise 3. Agree or disagree with the statements

- When woman's financial resources improve, she will want the violence to stop and divorce the family abuser.