The gravity of the crime, as reflected in the punishment, depends on

· How many people are affected,

· Is it the individual who is affected by the crime or is it society as whole

· The seriousness of the individual case

· The law in different countries (trespassing)

· The circumstances and motives of the offender

· Extenuating / mitigating circumstances

Harrassment affects people personally therefore it’s a more serious crime, is harmful to the individual

Money laundering is a from an ethical point of view you cheat the inland revenue (drug trafficking, prostitution, gambling, protection racket).

Organized crime which has network of people involved in it

Blackmail can be both very serious and less so

· a bad crowd – bad company

· I got done for assault (sentences)

· a doss (a chore)

· to hit it off with sb – get on / along with

Perjury depends on the circumstances, the situation in the country (dictatorship versus democracy)

VI Forms of punishment

· prison, jail, gaol, the nick (slang)

· probation (on probation)

· psychiatric treatment (diminished responsibility)

· detention centre (borstal) for juvenile offenders (rehabilitate)

· counselling

· a suspended (jail) sentence

· the death sentence

· penal colony

· community service

· parole

III Listening:

A – reading: two juvenile offenders and their situations

B – listening for specific points (made either by one or the other speaker, or both speakers)

C Colloquial language in conversation between two juvenile offenders

· to be in the nick

· to get away with

· to make sb change their tune

· to take the soft option

· a bad lad / record

· to come down to London

· to have it in for somebody (did not like him, could not stand him)

· a slave-driver

· to be more canny

· to be half-dead

· to have words / a word with sb

· to get put away – go to prison

· to get in with somebody (a bad crowd)

11.12.2014 (10/11)

I Test

II Describing places

A beautiful place / a place of great natural beauty you have been to and which affected you in various ways.

· The mountains: valley, slopes covered with a forest, peak

· The seaside: a long stretch of the beach; more dramatic cliffs, hills

· River with hills

· The Rhine Waterfall – teacher’s choice of a beautiful place visited last summer

III Literature group’s choices of breath-taking scenery

· What did the place look like? What features of landscape/seascape did you most admire there?

· How did the place affect you emotionally – what feelings did it evoke in you?

· How did it affect you intellectually – what did you think there? What were your reflections on things?

1 the Bieszczady Mountains

2 CzarnyStaw in the Tatra Mountains

3 the Baltic Sea beaches and the whole coast

4 New Zealand