- •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
Text 1 Fighting Crime in Maritime London
Smuggling (the crime of importing or exporting goods without paying the required Customs duties) and corruption had been a problem since the Middle Ages. The word ‘smuggle’ originated primarily from the Scandinavian languages – the Danish smugle which literally means ‘smuggle’ and the Swedish smuga means ‘a lurking hole’ (потаенное место, убежище) – the Anglo-Saxon smugan, ‘to creep’, is probably cognate (родственный, близкий) with the Icelandic prefix smug which stems from smjuga, and means ‘to creep’ or ‘to creep through a hole’.
Smuggling usually took place through the ports: vessels and individuals arriving at ports often attempted to conceal dutiable goods, sometimes by disguising (маскируя) them as other items.
To detect concealed goods, teams of officers searched vessels and people using the port. Ships bound for London could be searched. The people and their luggage had to be checked at Customs posts at the place of arrival.
When Customs duties were very high, some smugglers avoided the ports altogether, and tried to land their goods in places out of sight of the authorities. These smugglers brought in light, high-value goods such as tea, tobacco and silks.
Smuggling reached its peak during the 18th century, when duties were very high, and when many imports were banned altogether during the frequent wars with France.
The smugglers have often been romanticized in literature but in reality, it was a brutal business on both sides. Many smugglers were hanged, and most were prepared to use force against the revenue men – as the Customs officials were known – to avoid capture (избежать ареста). While the authorities used informants to break the gangs, smugglers used the threat of violence – and even murder (убийство) – to ensure silence from the local community.
Contraband goods were often destroyed in public, in order to demonstrate that smuggling would not be tolerated.
The presence of ruthless villains (жестокие негодяи) in the gangs led, in turn, to violent clashes (стычки, столкновения) between smugglers and revenue men and turned the cliffs and coasts of England into a blood-soaked battleground comparable with the Wild West of pre-industrial America.
The smuggling traders came very often in gangs of sixty to one hundred men to the shore in disguise armed with swords, pistols, blunderbusses (мушкетоны), carbines (карабины), and not only carry off the goods they land in defiance of (вопреки) officers, but beat, knock down and abuse whoever they meet in their way.
Women were useful to the smugglers as signallers and carriers of messages from members of the gang to each other, but they actually brought goods in from the shore for them.
The skirt was a particularly useful fashion, for the women wound silk (шелк) and lace (шнурок, тесьма) round their bodies and reached home as a rule quite peacefully with their contraband.
There have been cases, however, when women have, on inspection, been found to have had their petticoats (нижние юбки) puffed out by bladders (надувая их [юбки] пузырями) filled with spirits (спиртные напитки).
Although there were more potential smugglers around, there were also more soldiers, sailors and preventive men to combat them. A whole series of measures were taken to increase the numbers of those employed in the prevention of smuggling and to improve co-operation between them.
Inspecting officers, riding officers were appointed to carry out combined operations. Naval vessels and troops of soldiers were also drafted in to aid the struggle.
Exercise 7. Complete these phrases from the text using prepositions, if necessary.
to originate _____ the language;
to arrive _____ ports;
to be banned ______ the frequent wars;
to be destroyed _____ public;
to use force _____ the revenue men;
to be a brutal business _____ both sides;
to land goods ____ places ____ ____ sight of the authorities;
to be checked _____ Customs posts;
to come ____ gangs _____ sixty;
to improve co-operation _____ them;
to knock _____ people on the way;
to land _____ defiance _____ officers;
to be useful _____ the smugglers;
to be filled ____ spirits;
to reach _____ home _____ the contraband.
Exercise 8. Make up your own sentences with:
attempts to conceal; to detect concealed good; to search ships; armed with swords; high-value goods; contraband goods; women-signallers; series of measures; members of the gangs; preventive men; clashes between smugglers; blood-soaked battlegrounds.
Exercise 9. Answer the following questions:
Why did the smugglers disguise goods as other items?
When did the smugglers avoid the ports?
When did smuggling reach its peak?
How were the smugglers punished?
Why did women become smugglers?
Who caught them?
How were the Customs officials called at that time?
Exercise 10. Translate Text 2 into Russian.
Text 2