There are usually two lawyers or 11______ in the court-room. One is known as Counsel for the 12______ , who speaks for the defendant, and the other as Counsel for the 13______. This person has to try to prove that the person accused of the crime really committed it.
The 14______ sits in a large seat facing the defendant and wears a special gown and wig. He or she does not decide whether an accused person is guilty or not. This is left to the 15______ , made up of twelve members of the public, to decide. During the trial they sit in silence, listening carefully to all the 16______. Then, they are locked away until they can decide whether the person is 17______ or not 18______. This decision is called the 19______.
The 20______ now decides on the punishment or 21______ as it is called. If the person is innocent, he or she is 22______ which means that he or she is released immediately and is free to go home. If the person is guilty and the crime is serious, he or she could be given several years 23______. However, if it is a first offence, the person might be given a 24______ instead, for example 1000$, or 25______.
Reading Comprehension:
1. Answer the following questions.
1. Why did the author call this murder trial the strangest he had ever attended?
2. Was the murderer an attractive person?
3. Where did this murder happen?
4. Who was Mrs. Salmon? How did she become the witness of the murder?
5. Describe the rest of the witnesses: Henry MacDougall, old Mr. Wheeler.
6. How can you comment on the phrase: the murderer’s luck was badly out?
7. From the beginning of the story were there any chances for the defence to acquit Adams?
8. Why did Mrs. Salmon speak very firmly in the court?
9. Till what moment was Mrs. Salmon sure that the murderer was exactly the person in the dock?
10. Could she expect to see Mr. Adams’s twin-brother? What feelings could she experience at that moment?
11. Why was Mr. Adams acquitted?
12. What happened at the end of that extraordinary day?
13. Do you think that was a divine vengeance?
Discussion:
1. Do you think Adams’s acquittal was right, legally or morally?
2. What would you do if you were Mrs. Salmon after the trial and the death of one of the Adams brothers?
3. Do you think that the man who died was deliberately pushed in front of the bus? And if so, who do you think pushed him?
4. If the accused was found guilty, he would be definitely sentences to capital punishment. What is your attitude to death penalty? Try to think of at least three arguments against it.
A Glowing Future
Pre-reading task:
Before reading the story “A Glowing Future” try to predict what it might be about. What associations can the title of the story bring forth?
Reading:
Read the following story carefully and try to understand it in detail.
Vocabulary Focus:
1. Look up and learn the following words:
glowing fingertips to wince
grin flutter resident’s permit
efficient decency to shudder
lid peculiar astray
onyx detached to treasure
barrenness greedy faithful
explicit sealing to needle
padlock trunk to manhandle
spread-eagled absent-minded to accompany
self-preservation sorrow to regret
on the spur of the moment
2. Fill in with the necessary prepositions:
1. They were going to have to go … it all again.
2. It wouldn’t stop … he’d got the things … and himself …, away from London and her … good.
3. You’d got a resident’s permit to stay in Australia, you’d got a job all fixed … , you’d met a girl you wanted to marry.
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