UNIT 4
Read and translate the text:
You are going to read a text about some opportunities to get married abroad.
Love in a strange climate
Bride and Groom have just got married on a Mauritian beach. The congregation was a group of complete strangers - hotel guests in their swimsuits who laid their detective novels on their sun beds and strolled over to listen to the pastor brief the couple on their new responsibilities.
Each year about 12,000 Britons go abroad to get married, as well as to honeymoon. This has as much to do with economics as romance and sunshine. With the average wedding at home costing about 18, 000 a ceremony in paradise will bring significant savings.
Fly to the Dominican Republic, for example, and a couple can have a two-week honeymoon at a luxury hotel for 1,799 for two, including all wedding arrangements, while a three-day package to Gibraltar costs just 600.
An important consideration is the legal requirement concerning residency - the time you have to stay in the country before you can get married. EC countries are among the most difficult. In Italy, for example, you have to be there for six weeks. In the Caribbean, the most popular place for overseas weddings, the rules vary from island to island. In Barbados, you can marry the day you arrive; in Jamaica, weddings usually take a minimum of three days; in Grenada, a week.
Ball is the most popular destination in the Far East, despite
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the additional complication of a seven-day stay and the need to spend a day in Jakarta to deal with the paperwork.
Australia is another possibility. On the island of Hamilton, they have even built a church, not for westerners but for Japanese who like to follow up their traditional wedding with a white church wedding. You need to apply at least six weeks ahead of your trip. The Australian Tourist Commission publishes a useful free fact sheet.
America leads the way in terms of speed. In Las Vegas, a wedding licence is easier to acquire than a television. All you need is your passport and US $45. Then you find a chapel, such as the Elvis Experience, one of several open 24 hours a day, or one in the hotel where you are staying. In Florida, you can also arrive, obtain the licence and marry, all on the same day.
There are several slightly crazy wedding possibilities available in Florida. You can get married aboard the Riverside Romance while cruising on the St. John's River, for example, or in the basket of a hot-air balloon, with the pilot performing the ceremony just before lift-off, followed by breakfast. Underwater marriages are also conducted in Key Largo, Florida, where the engaged couple are taken on a one-day diving course before undertaking the ceremony.
Many travel companies employ wedding co-coordinators who are well informed about the legal requirements in different countries. There is a rule in Barbados, for example, that forbids marriages after 6 p.m., and in the Seychelles, marriages have to take place in a permanent building, never a temporary building or tent in the hotel grounds. On St. Lucia, you cannot marry on the beach but the hotel grass is perfectly fine.
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Vocabulary
To laid-полагаться
To stroll-прогуливаться
Requirement-требование
To deal with-иметь дело с
Licence-лицензия
To acquire-приобретать
1. To answer the questions below, choose from the countries or states (A-G). You may need to choose some of the countries or states more than once.
A Australia |
E Bali |
B Barbados |
F Florida |
C Italy |
G Grenada |
D St Lucia |
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2. Use your head:
In which country or state are the following statements true?
It is forbidden to get married in the evening.
You have to stay there for more than a month before your wedding.
You have to apply several weeks before the wedding.
You can have an unusual wedding but you have to learn to dive first.
You have to stay there for one week before the wedding. You can get married on the day you arrive.
A special church has been built for some visitors' weddings.
It is forbidden to get married on the sand.
You can get married just before going up in the air. You can get a free information sheet about weddings.
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UNIT 5
Read and translate the text:
The first laws:
The Birth of Law
Rules and laws — and the conventions or customs from which they are descended — have been a part of human life ever since our ancestors first began to live in large and settled groups. But our knowledge is vague of laws that were in effect before the invention of writing in about 3500 B.C. The earliest known legal text was written by Ur-Nammu, a king of the Mesopotamian city of Ur, in about 2100 B.C. It dealt largely with compensation for bodily injuries, and with the penalties for witchcraft and runaway slaves.
Vocabulary
Ancestor-предок
To vague-определять
1.Find in the text the words that mean the following: the use of magic power, especially with the aid of evil spirits a punishment imposed for a violation of law or rule
an accepted social custom or practice
not clearly or explicitly stated or expressed payment for damage or loss, restitution one from whom a person is descended harm or damage done or suffered
2.Answer the following questions:
1.Why is it difficult to judge about the earliest laws?
2.Where and why did the first laws appear?
3.What issues did the early laws emphasize? Why?
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3. Translate the following English expressions
1)legal activities
2)legal address
3)legal advice
4)legal age
5)legal costs
6)legal decision
7)legal document
8)legal entity
9)legal ethics 10)legal expert
11)legal history
12)legal language
13)legal owner
14)legal procedure
15)legal protection
16)legal rights
17)legal status
18)of legal force
19)to enjoy one's legal rights
20)to enter the legal profession
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