Today we have a Business English News story on a company that’s been in the news quite a bit recently – YouTube. In particular, we refresh and discuss some of the key vocabulary we covered in our Video Vocab series on the law and legal vocabulary:
Video Vocab 04 – Basic Legal Terms
Video Vocab 05 – Court Cases
Video Vocab 06 – Commercial Law
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This video podcast introduces definitions and collocations related to commercial law, including: contract law; copyright; intellectual property rights, arbitration, lawsuit; to sue; to litigate; plaintiff; defendant; damages; settlement; injunction & to appeal.
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This is the second in our 3-part Video Vocab series on the law. Today we focus on the vocabulary used to describe the actions and people involved in a court case.
Key Vocabulary:
Court case, trial, judge, jury, witness, defendant, innocent, guilty, plea, testify, deliberate, verdict, convict, sentence, fine & prison sentence.
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In this episode of Video Vocab we’re going to look at basic vocabulary related to the law. This is the first in a three-part series: part 1 covers basic legal terms, part 2 will look at words related to a court case and part 3 will look at the vocabulary related to commercial law.
Key Vocabulary:
1. Law (civil, criminal, contract, property, trust, tort, constitutional, administrative & international)
2. Lawyer (AmE = Attorney, BrE = Solicitor)
3. Defense
4. Prosecution
5. Case
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This is an enhanced version of the first intermediate Business English News podcast on Reebok’s new marketing campaign. Now you can view pictures and text related to the article on your computer or video iPod (you should also be able to see the images on most video MP3 players and phones).
To download a set of study notes for this podcast ‘right-click’ on this link, select save target and then choose which folder on your computer to save the file to.
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