How about last Friday's field trip, eh?
Before going on our field trip tomorrow, let's think about business law.
How important is it to obey the law in Canada?
What can you do if you get in trouble with the law?
How could you get in trouble with the law?
Here are your tasks:
- Role play: Being Sued
- Note pronunciation and meaning of key words in bold.
- Practise by yourself and then with a partner.
- Write an email inviting a lawyer friend to play a round of golf.
Hi Hind.
How are you, I didn't heard about you for several weeks, I hope you good.
I know you are busy business and travel out of country in order to make deals.
so I invite you to play golf to spend some fun time away from the business next Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
I'm Wait you at this address.
Tam O'Shanter Golf Clup
2481 Birchmount Rd.
I hope to see you, Please call me or send me a message.
Thank you.
Sally..
- Use some of the key words you have learnt.
- Add pictures/videos.
- Have two partners check.
- being sued : Talk to the person or business you are thinking about suing. Try to work things out. If you owe the other person money, pay it or try to work out a payment plan before the court date.
- been served : someone who is the recipient of a subpoena (a legal summons to attend a court session) or other legal document ( Legal papers).
- counsel : a lawyer or Attorney someone how knowledge about the law.
- represent : be entitled or appointed to act or speak for (someone), especially in an official capacity.
- attorneys : a person appointed to act for another in business or legal matters.(a lawyer)
- rundown : he gave his teammates a rundown on the opposition or (especially of a building or area) in a poor or neglected state after having been prosperous.
- negligence : failure to take proper care in doing something.
- class action : a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group of people who are represented collectively by a member of that group.
- alleging : claim or assert that someone has done something illegal or wrong, typically without proof that this is the case.
- lawsuit : a claim or dispute brought to a court of law for adjudication.
- merit : the quality of being particularly good or worthy, especially so as to deserve praise or reward.
- frivolous : not having any serious purpose or value.
- loophole : an ambiguity or inadequacy in the law or a set of rules.
- settlement : a place, typically one that has hitherto been uninhabited, where people establish a community.
- lay off : away from the place in question to or at a distance.