This course focuses on the unique writing requirements demanded of lawyers. In this course, participants will reinforce key grammatical structures (modal verbs, all verb tenses, articles, subjunctive mood, negative adverbials), analyze their usage in various forms of legal documents, as well as write their own legal documents.
The course length is 10 x 60-min (individual) or 10 x 90-min (group), one time per week.
Participants should have already achieved B2 English to participate.
Key Learning Benefits
– improved knowledge of the grammar used in legal documents
– language tools to emphasize, deemphasize, and be neutral
– 50 new legal terms and phrases
– analyze legal texts to be able to learn independently
Learning Plan
| Class | Class Topic |
| 1 | Tense Review: Active & Passive |
| 2 | Article (a, an, the, –) usage |
| 3 | Punctuation |
| 4 | Conditional Sentences & Inversion |
| 5 | Text analysis of a contract |
| 6 | Text analysis of a legal opinion |
| 7 | Giving weak, neutral, strong opinions |
| 8 | Using legal linking terms to improve coherence & cohesion |
| 9 | Text production: legal opinions |
| 10 | Text production: contract writing |
