You are going to listen to a lecture by an outstanding British linguist, David Crystal. • The lecture is called ‘Death

“Death sentence’’ can be translated as “смертный притвор\"’ and “предложение смерти”. So it can be interpreted two ways: one is punishment by death and the other refers to “sentence” as a language feature. So, it is possible to suppose that the lecture will be about languages and will probably be connected with dying languages.