Talking Points

Exercise 20. Ask and answer with a partner.

1. What types of drugs fall into categories A/B/C?

2. How do you feel about drug addicts?

3. What are the ways to solve the drug addiction problem?

4. What patterns of drug smuggling are described in the texts?

5. What reasons make people use drugs?

Focus on Grammar

Exercise 21. Change Direct Speech into Indirect Speech.

Start with “The Customs officer asked…..”

1. “What is the purpose of your visit to this country?”

2. “How long do you intend to stay?”

3. “Any foreign money?”

4. “How many dollars have you got?”

5. “Have you anything to declare?”

6. “Have you any dutiable goods?”

Exercise 22. Change Direct Speech into Indirect Speech.

Start with “The passenger asked…..”

1. “I am in trouble. Can you help me?”

2. “Must I pay a duty on it?”

3. “May I bring this in?”

4. “May I go?”

5. “May I have another Customs form?”

6. “Must I open my suitcase?”

7. “May I close the bag?”

8. “Would you please stamp my passport?”

Exercise 23. Correct the mistakes.

1. He go to the cinema at weekends.

2. She don’t speak English well.

3. What do you do now?

4. Where does your uncles live?

5. He have just come home.

6. When have you finished your work?

7. What did you wrote to your friend?

8. Where did he went last Monday?

9. He knew me since childhood.

10. How long have you been known me?

11. They are reading this book for 2 weeks.

12. What do you do next summer?

13. He don’t go to the seaside next week.

14. He already came home.

Exercise 24. Choose the correct tense forms of the verbs in brackets.

My cousin’s name (be) Sylvie Dupont. She (live) in Paris and (work) in a café in the centre of the city. She (work) there for three years. At the moment her best friend from England (stay) with her. They (enjoy) her holiday very much. They (already/visit) many museums together and they (be) to the theatre three times. Last week they (see) a new film and then (have) dinner at a restaurant. Last Tuesday they (go) to a disco with some friends of theirs. They (not/come) home until late. Sylvie (be) very tired then.

Exercise 25. Open the brackets using Present Perfect or Past Simple.

1. I (meet) Mr. and Mrs. Shelley.

2. They (leave) the office early last night.

3. He (not see) the film yet.

4. (You read) this book before?

5. She (not see) him yesterday.

6. I never (go) anywhere by plane until now.

7. (You hear) their new record? It’s the best they’ve ever made.

For more information turn to Grammar reference section.

Unit 6.3 Fight against Illegal Drug Trafficking

Starting Up

Exercise 1. Use your knowledge to answer the following questions:

1. Why do all nations want to prevent the escalation of the drug abuse?

2. Why are the methods of smugglers becoming more and more sophisticated?

3. What are the consequences of drug abuse?

4. What are the most drug-related countries?

Word Study

Exercise 2. Match the verbs with their definitions:

to analyze to adapt to discover to remove to develop to demonstrate to pay to conceal to intercept to minimize

a) to find, see, or learn of smth no one knew before b) to show how smth works, its advantages c) to keep smth secret, esp. to trick smb d) to stop or catch smth e) to reduce smth to the limit, lessen f) to take smth away g) to change to function in a new way, to adjust h) to grow, progress, evolve i) to give money to smb in return for regular work j) to understand what it is and means, to study

Exercise 3. Arrange the following in pairs of synonyms.

information find deep sink adapt vessel seize accidental success 10) burden 11) drug

a) piece of luck b) adjust c) chance d) discover e) load f) narcotic g) submerge h) ship i) profound j) news k) clutch

Exercise 4. Match left and right.

1) concealment means	a) отвлекать чье-либо внимание
2) (the) Office of Investigations	b) приспосабливать приемы (методы) контрабанды
3) suspicious vessels	c) коммерческие водолазы
4) seizures of goods	d) чинить судно на скорую руку
5) to discover cocaine on freighters	e) места (средства) сокрытия
6) to divert smb’s attention	f) Бюро расследований
7) (the) outer skin of the vessel	g) подозрительные суда
8) commercial divers	h) захват, конфискация товаров
9) to patch the vessel	i) обшивка судна
10) to adapt smuggling techniques	j) обнаружить кокаин на грузовых судах