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.