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Review & Fluency

​Learning Objectives

  • Build the transition from Level 1 (Beginners) to Level 2 (Intermediate) by reviewing foundational legal concepts.

  • ​Increase oral fluency through structured legal discussions and simulated professional meetings.

  • ​Express professional opinions regarding past case simulations and lawyer-client interactions.

  • ​Apply more complex grammar structures to enhance the detail and professional tone of legal conversations.

Grammar Focus

  • ​Review of Past Tenses: Using Past Simple and Past Continuous to describe previous legal cases or life experiences.

  • ​Relative Clauses (Defining): Adding essential information to define legal figures and documents (e.g., “The attorney who handled the case…”).

  • ​Conjunctions of Reason and Result: Connecting ideas fluently using because, due to, as a result, and consequently.

Core Vocabulary

​1. Professional Legal Collocations

  • ​To take legal action

  • ​To reach a settlement

  • ​To file a lawsuit

  • ​To provide legal counsel

  • ​To draft a contract

  • ​To comply with regulations

  • ​To sign a non-disclosure agreement

  • ​To breach a contract

  • ​To issue a summons

​2. Reviewing & Expanding Level 1 Terms

  • ​Plaintiff vs. Defendant

  • ​Litigation

  • ​Jurisdiction

  • ​Evidence

  • ​Witness

  • ​Verdict

  • ​Judge & Jury

  • ​Attorney and Client

  • ​Court hearing

  • ​Legal documents