Find in the text sentences with Passive Voice and rewrite them in Active Voice

2. Find in the text personal and possessive pronouns and decide instead of what nouns they are used.

V. SPEAKING

Imagine that you are a judge. Choose a court you work in and describe your job (types of cases, rights and duties, advantages and disadvantages, etc).

You are a specialist in judicial system of Ukraine. Describe it to your colleagues from the UK. Exercise 6 in Vocabulary Study will help you.

3. There is a joke, ‘A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer’. Do you agree with it? Do you think we should have jury trial? Prepare your arguments for and against it.

Unit 1 Judiciary in Ukraine Section 2 Status and Role of Judges in Legal Proceedings

I. LEAD-IN

1. Before you read the text answer the following questions:

1. What are the bases for judges’ independence in Ukraine?

2. What laws establish and guarantee their functions and independence?

3. What are the main responsibilities of a Ukrainian judge in a trial?

Divide the words into three groups according to the pronunciation of the underlined vowels. Three words do not belong to any of these groups.

C ou rt, r ea ch, appl y, w o rk, tr i al, l e gal, b i nding, r ea ch, imp o rtant, determ i ne, app ea l, l a w, proc e dure, rec o rder, h i gh, app e llate, prov i de, L o rd, pr i vate.

Read the text to check your answers in exercise 1.

TEXT 2