Card # 24

LISTENING (7 minutes)

Task 1. Listen to the text [T. 24] American juvenile justice system and complete the test

(listening- 2 minutes, time for fulfillment – 1 min., for checking – 1min.)

#		true	false
1	Risk evaluation means determination the chances of a youth to commit a crime
2	The first area of research is the risk evaluation
3	The third area of research is susceptibility
4	The second area of research is accountability

Task 2. Retell the main idea of the listened text (time for preparation - 2 min., time for answering - 1 min.).

SPEAKING (10 minutes)

Task 1. Discuss on the given situation. (time for preparation - 2 min., time for answering - 2 min.)

You have built a country house. Ask your partner for an advice on how to improve the country house.

Task 2. Speak on the given topic (time for preparation- 5 min., time for answering - 1 min.)

“How does money, or the lack of it, affects some areas of our lives? In which one money can have the most positive and negative effect?”

READING (9 minutes)

Task 1. Read the text (silent reading – 1 min., reading aloud – 2 min.)

Make a plan to the text (time for preparation- 1 min., time for answering- 1 min.).

Crime and punishment

If we look into history we shall find that laws are conventions between men in a state of freedom. By justice we understand nothing more than that bond which is necessary to keep the interest of individuals united, without which men would return to their original state of barbarity. All punishments which exceed the necessity of preserving this bond are in their nature unjust.

The end of punishment is no other than to prevent the criminal from doing further injury to society, and to prevent others from committing the like offence. Such punishments, therefore, and such a mode of inflicting them, ought to be chosen, as will make the strongest and most lasting impressions on the minds of others, with the least torment to the body of the criminal. It is used with an intent either to make him confess his crime, or to explain some contradiction into which he had been led during his examination, or discover his accomplices, or for some kind of metaphysical and incomprehensible purgation of infamy, or, finally, in order to discover other crimes of which he is not accused, but of which he may be guilty.

No man can be judged a criminal until he be found guilty; nor can society take from him the public protection until it have been proved that he has violated the conditions on which it was granted. In the eye of the law, every man is innocent whose crime has not been proved. Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment. In proportion as punishments become more cruel,  grow hardened and insensible.  The death penalty is pernicious to society, from the example of barbarity it affords. If the passions, or the necessity of war, have taught men to shed the blood of their fellow creatures, the laws, which are intended to moderate the ferocity of mankind, should not increase it by examples of barbarity, the more horrible as this punishment is usually attended with formal pageantry. It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them. This is the fundamental principle of good legislation

Task 2. Translate the 2-nd paragraph of the text (time for preparation- 3 min., time for answering - 1 min.).

WRITING (14 minutes)

Write essay to the given situation: Is progress always good? Prove your reason by examples. (100 words).

(time for preparation- 13 min., time for answering- 1min.).