All the letters are pronounced as a sequence. o FAQ, BBC, UN, MC (emcee), PR, CPR, DUI, FBI, CIA, WHO. 9 Acronyms are pronounced according to grapheme-phoneme conversion rules. They function as regular words and can take plurals. o AWOL – absent without official leave, TWOC – taken without owners consent, AIDS, NATO, Scuba – self-contained underwater breathing apparatus,, SIM – subscriber identification module 24. Clippings, fore clippings, back clippings, ambiclippings Clipping is a word-formation process during which a word is reduced to a certain part of it while retaining the original meaning. Also known as shortening or truncation
10 nädalat aint. One of the ESP courses. What we are going to do, what is needed: · What we do - 1 test, on words. · 2 Essays, that means that we have to look into academic writing · Homereading we read a case from European Court of Justice thingy. · Oral thing. · 90% you have to attend · Have to prepare for class and take part of it etc What we learn: Terms Expressions / collocations (nt obey/abide by the law) Explaining AWOL absence without a leave Legal English can be divided into 3 levels. We learn the first one, which is needed for the other two! You have to know the vocabulary etc. Second level has to do with legal contracts... The third level both 1 and 2 and explaining... We learn the vocabulary + explaining. Process of law-making draft law/bill (seaduseelnõu) is developed draft is sent to the parliament readings(amendments made to the law