Английский язык. Цыбина Е.А - 27 стр.

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1 When someone kills someone else deliberately.
2 When someone offers you money to do something.
3 When someone steals something from your home.
4 When someone captures you and demands money for your release.
5 When someone attacks you in the street and takes your money.
6 When someone writes something false and offensive about someone.
Find out what the other words in the box mean.
32. Work in pairs. Decide on punishments for some of the crimes in the vocabulary
box.
prison sentence fine caution life sentence damages community
service disqualification
33. Read Rules of law. Now work in pairs and discuss which law you find most
amusing or strange.
Rules of law
♦ In Lancashire, it is against the law to hang male and female underwear on the
same line.
♦ In Saskatchewan, Canada, you must not drink water in a beer house.
♦ A transportation law in Texas, USA: when two trains approach each other at a
crossing, they should both stop, and neither shall start up until the other has gone.
♦ In Waterloo, Nebraska, USA, it is illegal for a barber to eat onions
between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
♦ The town council of Widries, Lancashire, England introduced a fine of for
those who made a habit of falling asleep in the reading rooms of libraries.
♦ Duelling in Paraguay is legal as long as both participants are registered
blood donors.
♦ In New York City there is still a law which makes it illegal for women to
smoke in public.
♦ The citizens of Kentucky, USA, are required by law to take a bath once a
year.
♦ In 1659 it became illegal to celebrate Christmas in Massachusetts.
♦ In New York State you are not allowed to shoot at a rabbit from a moving
trolley car. You have to get off the car, or wait for it to come to a complete stop,
then fire away.
♦ In Malaysia it is against the law to dance on the backs of turtles.
♦ In Madagascar it is illegal for pregnant women to wear hats or eat eels.
♦ In Alaska, USA, it is illegal to look at a moose from the window of an airplane
or any other flying vehicle.
♦ It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona, USA.

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