- •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
Introduction to Smuggling
There are two schools of thought on the rights and wrongs of smuggling, and two strikingly different definitions of a smuggler. Samuel Johnson described him as a wretch who, in defiance of justice and the laws, imports or exports goods either contraband or without payment of the Customs.
Whereas Adam Smith, the eighteenth century economist and advocate of free trade, was more generous: “The smuggler”, he wrote, “is a person who, though no doubt blamable for violating the laws of his country, is frequently incapable of violating those of natural justice, and would have been in every respect an excellent citizen had not the laws of his country made that a crime which nature never meant to be so.”
(From the book “Dorset Smugglers” by Roger Guttridge)
Exercise 11. Render the text below.
Text 3 Smugglers in Cornwall
It is difficult to separate the myth from the reality with smugglers. Were they free traders, organized crime, villains or local heroes?
Cornwall was suitable for smuggling because it had a long rocky, uninhabited coast, with few revenue men to patrol it. The goods smuggled included tea, brandy, gin, rum and tobacco. Following numerous increases in tea tax, tea could be bought in Europe for 1/6th of the price in Britain, while French brandy was only 1/5th of the price.
Initially, smuggling took place fairly openly with cargoes landed directly on the shore.
Smuggling boomed until the end of the 18th century. However from around 1800 the revenue men became more organized and proactive. Smuggled goods had to be dropped off in remote coves, and picked up again when the coast was clear. Tunnels and passages were dug out of the rocks to expedite movement.
The risks involved in smuggling were high.
Exercise 12. Read Text 4 and say what bizarre goods (странные, необычные товары) are the objects of smuggling these days. Compare these cases with the ones above.
Text 4 Drug Smuggling Submarines
1. It seems drug smugglers are always coming up with new and innovative ways to get their drugs onto U.S streets. Well, here’s the latest, it’s a drug smuggling submarine.
2. In 2006 and 2007 a new method of smuggling emerged, surface skimming, semi-submersible, home-made submarines were captured from Thailand to Spain and further to Colombia. In 2008 the number detected has already reached the 2007 count. This craft often had sophisticated electronics for evading capture.
3. Security at an airport in Stockholm watched a woman continually adjusting her top until they decided to investigate. As it happens, she had filled her bra with 65 snakes and also managed to find room for 7 lizards under her shirt as well. Officials claim they noticed “something unusual” about her chest.
4. Surprisingly, next to drugs, animal smuggling is one of the biggest draws for people trying to pull one over on airport security. Some people are just hardcore nature lovers or hard up for cash.
A 23-year-old Australian was stopped coming into the country from Dubai when it was found he had a package of eggs on him, which was a little odd and certainly against the rules. A further search revealed a money belt around his waist full of seeds. Likely at this point someone raised an eyebrow and decided to investigate further. What they found was that, under his pants, he was wearing tights with a pigeon jammed in each leg.
5. Some smugglers are really dedicated to what they do and go that extra mile to commit their crimes.
A Chilean man on his way to Barcelona aroused some suspicion from security personnel who took a keen interest in the cast on his broken leg. As it turned out, some silly doctor had forgotten to use plaster and actually made the cast out of cocaine instead. The man actually did have a broken leg, one that officials are fairly certain he broke on purpose, just to have the cocaine cast put on. The man has true love for the game.
Exercise 13. Give the English equivalents to the following:
новый способ контрабанды; самодельные подводные лодки; плавное движение (скольжение); погруженный в воду наполовину; судно; сложное электронное оборудование; поправлять топ; контрабанда животных; приманка, соблазн; ‘протащить’ через систему безопасности аэропорта; ‘любители’ природы; нуждаться, не иметь средств (наличных); брюки; обыск (досмотр); пояс с деньгами (монетами) вокруг талии; поднять бровь от изумления; продолжить обыск (расследование); совершить преступление; возбудить подозрение; креативный / творческий; сломанная нога в гипсе; использовать кокаин вместо гипса.