1. WELCOME TO THE COURSE LEGAL ENGLISH I Module one – Introduction to Law
The course book
L. Sočanac, M. Matijašević, M. Javornik Čubrić, S. Husinec, I. H. Bilić – ENGLISH FOR THE LEGAL
PROFESSION, NN, Zagreb, 2017
(can be bought in Narodne Novine, Jurišićeva 1a, Trg žrtava fašizma 15, Ilica 73, Ul. Grada Vukovara 60)

2. Students’ obligations
Attendance (3 unexcused missed classes)
EXAMS: written + oral part
PRESENTATIONS in the summer term
optional for the students, who show special interest
TUTORIALS – on Fridays, – , Gundulićeva 10, room 2A

3. OUR COOPERATION What is recommendable:
- contact your teacher per mail or in tutorials
whenever you have a question
- connect the content of other lectures with
the units in the English course
- read newspapers and listen to news
reports
- don’t learn by heart, think and speak
- start working on your general language
weaknesses today

4. OUR COOPERATION What is not recommendable:
- do not come to the class without your textbook, notebook
or an electronic device to make notes!!!
(vocabulary lists are „a entrance ticket” for the oral exam)
- do not think that you high proficiency in general
language is a guarantee to passing the exam in
LLP
- don’t ask your teacher to solve a problem you
should have taken care of in due time
- don’t think that you can prepare for your English
exams over a cup of coffee or a day before the
exam term

5. Your personal understanding of LSP – language for specific purposes?
GLP – general language proficiency
LLP –language for legal purposes

6. What do think are the main features of LSP ?
LSP / LLP

7. What do think are the main features of LSP ?
Terminology,
(specific
vocabulary)
LSP / LLP
Sentence
structures
Text types/
genres
Can you think of an examples for the given features?

8. Can you think of an examples for the given features?
Terminology – consideration, damages,…
Sentence structure – phrasal verbs: to take
an action, to bring charges,…
Modal verbs –
The right to life shall be guaranteed.
Text genres – legal acts, court decisions, …

9. Languages for specific purposes?
Read the text and make notes about:
development of LSP
features
legal language as LSP compared to other LSPs – main differences: 1. 2. 3.

10. Legal English
PART I Read and underline key information in the text on legal English. PART II Do the exercise number III, p.5

11. Authentic texts, p
Work in pairs and find examples for the characteristics of legal English in the texts:
Act of Settlement (1700)
The Succession to the Crown Act 2013

12. Part Three
Study the text History of English Write a short text (500 words) to sum up the text. You can use additional sources mentioned on the page 9. The deadline for the text is 31. October