Questão de Inglês — Tópicos Mesclados de Gramática (Inglês) — INSTITUTO AOCP 2025
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The case for foreign languages as an aspiring lawyer
If you want to work in the competitive legal profession, having foreign language skills can help to set you apart.
The relative lack of foreign language skills among the UK population is well-documented. A recent Guardian survey revealed that 39% of young native English speakers were put off learning a foreign language because “most people speak English”, and 14% by the idea that “most other languages are not useful”. But for students hoping to enter the legal profession – which is increasingly global in outlook – being able to speak a foreign language is useful, and ever more desirable to employers. In other words, students who speak more than one language are increasingly valued by employers. The globalisation of legal practice means that many international law firms will not hire lawyers without language skills, said Patricio Grané Labat, partner of public international law firm Volterra Fietta. “In our profession, language skills are critical because, as international lawyers, we apply our trade with words. It is certainly something I look for when I recruit. If a candidate is not fluent in other languages, I generally will not consider them – if I do, it’s usually for a discrete assignment,” he said.
Dr. Martina Künnecke, lecturer at the University of Hull, added: “Students need a global mindset, and language skills are a part of that. It’s absolutely crucial considering the competition in the jobs market today.” She encourages students to learn a new language in their spare time and to take up opportunities to study law abroad.
Knowing at least one foreign language can also enable you to broaden the scope of your work, said Gabriel Helou, legal officer at the Norwegian Refugee Council and former project manager in the rule of law and justice sector at the EU delegation in Jerusalem.
“It enables legal professionals to explore foreign legal systems or experiences through a comparative approach. Referring to the original sources of information can sometimes be more reliable and comprehensible,” said Gabriel Helou. According to him, foreign language skills give lawyers a global mindset which is increasingly useful and desired by employers – so it might be worth dusting off those old textbooks.
Adapted from: SUTCLIFFE, Matthew. The case for foreign languages as an aspiring lawyer. The Guardian, London, Aug. 19, 2014. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/aug/19 /foreign-language-skills-law-career. Accessed on: Apr. 27, 2025.
Use the following text to answer question.
Read the following excerpts from the text and evaluate the accuracy of the observations regarding the use and meaning of a given term extracted from it.
I. In “It is certainly something I look for when I recruit,” the term "look for" is a phrasal verb meaning to seek or search, and in this context it conveys the idea of actively prioritizing a specific skill during the hiring process.
II. In “She encourages students to learn a new language in their spare time [...]”, the term “their” is an object pronoun referring to “a new language”, indicating that it belongs to the students.
III. The sentence “[...] students who speak more than one language are increasingly valued by employers,” is in the passive voice, with "students" being the ones who suffer the action and "employers" the ones who exercise it.
IV. In “[...] language skills can also enable you to broaden the scope of your work”, the term “enable” is a verb meaning to prevent someone from performing an action or achieving something.
V. In “[...] foreign language skills give lawyers a global mindset which is increasingly useful and desired by employers,” the term "increasingly" is an adjective that reinforces the idea of growing relevance and demand for such skills in the professional context.
Mark the alternative in which the statements are correct.
- AI and II, only.
- BI and III, only.
- CI, III and IV, only.
- DI, III and V, only.
- E I, III, IV and V, only.