1. Purpose of the discipline.

The general purpose of the course is to prepare students for effective communication in an academic and professional environment. Teaching English is carried out on an interdisciplinary integrative basis. The educational process is built on professionally significant content material of special disciplines that form the basis of training future lawyers.

2. Learning outcomes and competences.

According to the requirements of the educational and professional program, students must:

know:

– linguistic and regional realities of the country whose language is being studied: professional terms and

concepts;

– stable word combinations that occur in texts;

– the main meanings of some official words and their ambiguity;

– the principles and doctrines of public international law, as well as the content of the main

international legal institutions;

– the foundations of European Union law.

be able to:

- communicate in a foreign language both orally and in writing, including in the

professional sphere;

- read and understand original texts in the specialty;

- work with various types of dictionaries;

- read about oneself in order to obtain basic information from new texts

of special and general topics;

- conduct discussions on topics provided for by the program;

- correctly apply the vocabulary of topics in real situations, conduct conversations on

professional topics;

- analyze information from national and international sources, evaluate its

reliability;

- use modern information technologies and databases;

- give clear, systematically developed descriptions of a wide range of subjects

related to the circle of professional interests,

- present information and prepare public speeches on a wide range

of issues in the professional sphere;

– write detailed professional texts and documents within the framework of industry issues and

their professional interests, summarizing and evaluating information and

providing arguments;

– understand the content of professional speech (live or recorded).

competencies formed during the study of the academic discipline:

 Ability to apply knowledge in practical situations;

 Ability to communicate in a foreign language;

 Ability to work in a team;

 Ability to communicate orally and in writing in Ukrainian and foreign languages ​​in the field of legal activity.

 

3. Scope of implementation of acquired competencies.

Lexical competence

 

Lexical competence consists of lexical and grammatical elements. The choice of lexical elements is influenced by academic and/or professional spheres and situations in which they are to be used.

Students must:

− be able to correctly use lexical units of the active minimum in speaking and writing in accordance with communication situations and communication goals;

− recognize and understand lexical units of the active and passive minimum when reading or listening;

− analyze English-language sources of information to obtain data necessary for performing professional tasks and making professional decisions;

− be able to use different types of dictionaries (bilingual, monolingual, phraseological, thematic, country studies).

 

Grammatical competence

 

Grammatical competence as the ability to use grammatical resources of the language is considered as an integral mechanism for performing communicative tasks within a given situation.

Students must:

− be able to correctly use the form-tense forms and categories of verb states; the main categories of noun, adjective, adverb; articles and effectively use them in communication;

– use modal verbs and understand the nuances of their meanings;

– correctly and appropriately use verbal constructions with modal verbs in communication at different levels and in different situations;

– demonstrate knowledge of the syntactic organization of the English language in communication;

– compose different sentences (narrative, interrogative, imperative) depending on the purpose of communication and the nature of the speech act.

 

4. Content of the academic discipline by topics.

Tense Review. Present and Past Tenses. Type of Questions.

Tense review. Future Tenses (Plans and Predictions). Ways of Expressing the Future. Zero and First Conditionals.

Second and Third Conditionals/Wishes/Unreal Past. Mixed Conditionals.

Indirect Speech. The Sequence of Tenses. Verb Patterns

Gerund and Infinitive. Complex Object/Subject.

Defining and Non-defining Relative Clauses.

Participles. Active vs. Passive

Modal Auxiliary Verbs (Present, Future and Past)

Revision. Question Tags. Polite Request

 

5. Recommended information sources.

• Frances E. Speakout Second Edition / E. Frances, A. Clare., 2016. – 176 p.

• Foley M. MyGrammarLab / Foley M, Hall D., 2012.

• Catherine Mason, Rosemary Atkins. "The Lawyer's English Language Coursebook". Cambridge, 2007.

• Rawdon Wyatt. "Check your English Vocabulary for Law". A&C Black. London, 2006.

• Nick Brieger. "Professional English. Law." Pearson, 2003.