- •Государственное образовательное учреждение
- •Ростов-на-Дону
- •Государственное образовательное учреждение
- •Working for customs
- •Ростов-на-Дону
- •Starting Up
- •Word Study
- •Reading and Speaking
- •Text 1 Training
- •Talking Points
- •Starting Up
- •Word Study
- •Reading and Speaking
- •Text 1 Customs Officer Career
- •Text 2 October 25 – Day of the Customs Officer of the Russian Federation
- •Text 3 The Customs Officer
- •Talking Points
- •Text 4 Российский таможенный мундир
- •Starting Up
- •Word Study
- •Reading and Speaking
- •Text 2 Working as an Anti-Smuggling Officer
- •Typical work at the Customs includes:
- •Text 4 The Virtual Customs Office
- •Text 5 Customs Officer Jobs
- •Talking Points
- •Starting Up
- •Word Study
- •Reading and Speaking
- •Text 1 Part I
- •Part II
- •Part III
- •Text 2 The Customs in London
- •Text 3 The Revenue Problem
- •Talking Points
- •Focus on Grammar
- •Starting Up
- •Word Study
- •Reading and Speaking
- •Text 1 Travelling on Business
- •Text 2 At the Airport
- •Text 3 Air Rage
- •Nightmare Journeys
- •Talking Points
- •Focus on Grammar
- •Starting Up
- •Vocabulary – Airport
- •Hand luggage (a carry-on bag)
- •T rolley
- •Plane check
- •Word Study
- •Reading and Speaking
- •Text 1 Modern Airport
- •The Future Lies in Schoenefeld
- •Aeroflot Changes its Image
- •Pulkovo Airport Terminal One
- •Pulkovo Airport Terminal Two
- •Sheremetievo-3 Terminal
- •Jfk Airport, New York
- •The Heathrow Airport Terminal 5
- •Аэропорт Ростова-на-Дону
- •Talking Points
- •Dialogue 1
- •Dialogue 2
- •Focus on Grammar
- •Starting Up
- •Word Study
- •Reading and Speaking
- •Text 1 Red and Green Channel
- •Text 2 Passport and Customs Control
- •Talking Points
- •Focus on Grammar
- •Starting Up
- •Word Study
- •Reading and Speaking
- •Text 1 Customs Declaration
- •Text 2* Electronic Customs Declaration
- •Talking Points
- •Focus on Grammar
- •Starting Up
- •Word Study
- •Reading and Speaking
- •Text 1 Customs Restrictions
- •Text 2 Russian Customs Regulations
- •Text 3 British Customs Regulations
- •Text 4 Abolition of Duty-free Goods within the eu countries
- •Hand Luggage Restrictions: Liquids, Gels
- •Talking Points
- •Focus on Grammar
- •Starting Up
- •Word Study
- •Reading and Speaking
- •Text 1 Governments Impose sps Measures
- •Text 2 The World Trade Organization Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (sps Agreement)
- •Text 3 Russia’s sps standards
- •Veterinary Control
- •Text 5 Cooperation with the Customs
- •Фтс России борется с контрабандой объектов фауны и флоры
- •Talking Points
- •Focus on Grammar
- •Starting Up
- •Word Study
- •Reading and Speaking
- •Text 1 Southern Customs Administration
- •Rostov Customs
- •Text 3 Canine Enforcement at Rostov Customs
- •Text 4 Rostov Airport Customs
- •Talking Points
- •Focus on Grammar
- •Starting Up
- •Word Study
- •Reading and Speaking
- •Text 1 Protecting Our Borders
- •Border Technologies
- •Text 2 Naked Airport Security Scanning
- •Text 3 Biometric Facial Recognition Security Trial at uk Airports
- •Text 4 Baggage X-ray Scanner
- •New Rules at the International airport
- •People Screening
- •Мобильные досмотровые комплексы
- •Talking Points
- •Focus on Grammar
- •Starting Up
- •Word Study
- •Text 1 At the Customs
- •Text 3 Arrival
- •What is an Immigration Card?
- •Talking Points
- •At Passport Control
- •Focus on Grammar
- •Starting Up
- •Word Study
- •Reading and Speaking
- •Text 1 Fighting Crime in Maritime London
- •Introduction to Smuggling
- •Text 3 Smugglers in Cornwall
- •Text 4 Drug Smuggling Submarines
- •Talking Points
- •Focus on Grammar
- •Starting Up
- •Word Study
- •Text 1 Customs Offences
- •Text 2 Customs Violations
- •Text 3 Russian Currency and Currency Regulations for Travellers to Russia
- •Talking Points
- •Focus on Grammar
- •Starting Up
- •Word Study
- •Reading and Speaking
- •Text 1 Types of Concealment
- •Text 2 Top Eight Methods of Smuggling Drugs
- •Text 3 How to Spot a Drug Mule
- •Text 4
- •Text 5 Balloon Swallower
- •Talking Points
- •Focus on Grammar
- •Starting Up
- •Word Study
- •How to become a Customs Detector Dog handler
- •Text 2 Word Study
- •What Does a k9 Officer Do?
- •Talking Points
- •Focus on Grammar
- •Starting Up
- •Word Study
- •Reading and Speaking
- •Text 1 Drug Addiction
- •Text 2 Tackling the Drugs That Cause the Greatest Harm
- •Text 3 Почему наркотики это плохо?
- •Text 4 Drug Abuse: Problems and Solutions
- •Talking Points
- •Focus on Grammar
- •Starting Up
- •Word Study
- •Reading and Speaking
- •Text 1 Drugs and the Law Part I
- •Part II
- •Part III
- •Part IV
- •Text 2
- •Individual Drug Links
- •Drug Use and Abuse
- •Talking Points
- •Focus on Grammar
- •Word Study
- •Reading and Speaking
- •Haitian Smugglers Raise the Stakes on Miami River
- •Text 4 Word Study
- •Text 5 a Major World Problem
- •Talking Points
- •Focus on Grammar
- •Starting Up
- •Word Study
- •Reading and Speaking
- •Text 1 Russia’s War on Drugs
- •Reviewing the Article Word Study
- •Heroin Addiction Is Still Shooting Up
- •Text 3 The us Law Enforcement Activities in the Struggle against Drugs
- •Talking Points
- •Listening and Speaking Activities
- •At the Customs
- •Role Plays
- •Reading for Information Part 1 The Family Pattern
- •Generation Gap
- •Part 2 Native City
- •Text 1 The History of Rostov- on-Don
- •The Sights of Rostov-on-Don
- •Text 3 Taganrog
- •Text 4 Azov
- •Text 5 Winter Day in Town
- •Topical Vocabulary
- •Text 2 State System of Russia
- •Topical Vocabulary
- •Part 4 Science and Technology Text
- •Text 2 London
- •Text 3 Scotland
- •Text 2 us Customs
- •Text 3 Canine Enforcement Programme
- •Text 4 u.S. Customs and Border Protection Inspection Technology and Equipment
- •Text 5 Australian Customs
- •Text 6 How Has Customs Changed?
- •Smuggling Tropical Fish
- •Smuggling Snakes
- •Cocaine Bananas
- •Useful Vocabulary Signs at the Airport
- •At the Airport
- •Documents
- •Штатные должности (Established Posts)
- •Отделы (Departments)
- •Fight against illicit traffic of narcotics
- •Grammar reference Краткий грамматический справочник Имя существительное (The Noun)
- •Артикль (The Article)
- •Имя прилагательное (The Adjective)
- •Порядковые числительные
- •Местоимение (The Pronoun)
- •Указательные местоимения this / these, that / those
- •Наречие (The Adverb)
- •Глагол (The Verb)
- •Пассивный залог (The Passive Voice)
- •Модальные глаголы (Modal Verbs)
- •Простое предложение (The Simple Sentence)
- •Косвенная речь (Reported Speech)
- •Sequence of Tenses (Согласование времен)
- •Irregular verbs (таблица неправильных глаголов)
- •Keys (grammar tests)
- •References
Reading and Speaking
Exercise 3. Read Text 1 to speak on the problem of drug-trafficking in Russia.
Text 1 Russia’s War on Drugs
Drug-trafficking is one of the most serious and socially dangerous challenges to the national security of Russia and its neighbours. The Federal Drug Control Service put the number of frequent drug users in the country at 5 million in 2009, up from 3 million in 2002.
Drugs are brought to Russia through several main directions. The main routes of drug-trafficking originate in Afghanistan (heroin and opium) and Tshu (Chu) valley area at Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan border land (cannabis), lesser routes are from Ukraine (poppy straw), and the EU countries (synthetic drugs and cocaine).
The Russia-Kazakhstan border is the other drug route. Lower volumes are smuggled through Russia’s borders with the Transcaucasian states, China, Ukraine, Byelorussia, and the Baltic countries.
After crossing the Russian border the most intensive flows of heroin, opium and cannabis are directed to the central (Moscow) and North-Western (St. Petersburg) parts of Russia, to the Volga and the Ural, Krasnodar and Stavropol regions; and further westwards to the EU states.
The Russian drugs industry thrives on corruption, with the police, border guards and Customs often turning a blind eye in return for offering protection to the criminal gangs who run the trade. Russia can hope to win the war on drugs only by stamping out such extortion.
The best protection against a drugs epidemic is something more basic – decent jobs and salaries for young people living in Russia, so they have a better future to look forward to.
Exercise 4. Comprehension questions.
What is one of the most serious challenges to the national security of Russia and its neighbours?
What are the main drug routes to Russia?
Where do the main routes of drug-trafficking originate?
What does the Russian drugs industry thrive on?
What actions can protect our society from a drugs epidemic?
Exercise 5. Fill in the gaps.
Drug-trafficking is one of the most serious challenges to _______.
The number of drug addicts in Russia is about _______.
Drugs are brought to Russia through _______.
The main _____ of drug-trafficking originate in _______.
Lower volumes are smuggled through Russia’s borders with _________.
After crossing Russian ________ the most intensive flows of heroin, opium and cannabis are directed to _________.
The police, border guards and Customs often turn a blind eye in return for _________.
The best protection against a drugs epidemic includes __________.
Exercise 6. Fill in the gaps using the words from the box.
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assistance; borders; increase; punishment; amount; income; salary
The (1) _______ of the bribes proposed (especially at the stage of border and Customs control) can be hundreds of times the (2) _______ of the officials. However, the risk of serious (3) ________, the possibilities for less risky illegal (4) ________ (assistance for smuggling of consumer goods) and informal rules (for example, (5) ________ to drug-dealers is censured (осуждать, порицать) even among corrupted Customs officials) has, to some extent, restrained the (6) ________ of “narco-corruption” within state structures controlling Russian (7) ________.
Exercise 7. Read Text 2 and translate the Russian words into English.
Choose from:
establishment; land boundaries; responsible officials; evident breaches; huge expenses; fully-fledged; Customs services; struggle; sufficient; the system of control; low salaries; drug-trafficking; decision-makers; vulnerability; border guard; smuggling; checkpoints; imperfection.
Text 2
Most контрабанда goes through the existing пункты пропуска (на границе) while the несовершенство of the inspection procedures and the низкая заработная плата of officials (working for охрана границы and таможенные органы, police of border regions and districts) make очевидные нарушения within система контроля at Russian borders.
Taking into account the special уязвимость of the enormous Russian наземные границы, the огромные расходы required for the установление of полностью укомплектованный border control with достаточный salaries for ответственные сотрудники, should lead Russian policy руководители to pay more attention to use the борьба against нелегальные перевозки и торговля наркотиками.
Exercise 8. Answer the following questions:
What are evident breaches within the system of control at Russian borders?
What problems do the enormous Russian land boundaries have?
How can policy decision-makers and the community solve these problems?