Inglés Jurídico Introductorio - Nivel Intermedio
Docente: Trad. Públ. Cecilia Andrea Irrazábal
El curso tiene como objetivo introducir a los asistentes en el vocabulario del inglés para abogados, a la vez de reforzar estructuras gramaticales y habilidades del idioma propias del inglés general. Para ello, se combinarán los aportes de los libros Summit 1A, y Career Paths, Law. Lograda esta combinación, se practicarán las cuatro habilidades del idioma: habla, lecto comprensión, redacción y comprensión auditiva.
Programa:
SUMMIT 1 A - UNIT 8.
-Transforming verbs and adjectives into nouns.
-Making comparisons
-Other uses of comparatives and superlatives
CAREER PATHWAYS - LAW
-Unit 1: Basic Legal Terms: people in the legal system. Conversation skills: an update on a civil case.
-Unit 2: Basic Legal Concepts: legal action, due process, lawsuit, damages, settle, money compensation
-Unit 3: Legal Resources: digests, legal opinions, annotations, computerized databases
SUMMIT 1A - Unit 9
-Ways to say I don?t know
-Suffixes with able
-Indirect speech
-Perfect Modals for speculating in the past
CAREER PATHWAYS - LAW
-Unit 4: Sources of Law: legislation, statute, precedent
-Unit 5: Preliminary documents: memo, demand package, fee agreement, retainer agreement
-Unit 6: Court Structure: district court, court of appeals, state court, supreme court.
SUMMIT 1A - UNIT 10
-Adverbs of manners
-Intensifiers
CAREER PATHWAYS - LAW
-Unit 7: In the courtroom - rules and expectations of jury duty
-Unit 8 Court process - plea bargain, hung jury, acquittal
-Unit 11: Criminal Law - the objective of criminal law and vocabulary
-Unit 12 Civil Law - tort law, monetary damages, negligence
Bibliografía:
-Career Paths Law publicado por EXPRESS PUBLISHING
-Summit 1A- Second Edition, publicado por PEARSON.