- •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 5 a Major World Problem
Nobody doubts that the world faces a major problem with the illicit use of drugs. It touches all our lives and few can claim to have been unaffected by it. We have learned of drug abuse among our friends and (1) ________, within our own families and in our own neighbourhoods. Most of us have personal knowledge of individuals who have died through (2) ________, and we all know people who have suffered because of it.
Three approaches
There are basically three (3) _______ to dealing with the drug problem: “try harder”, “get tough”, and “get soft”. The first proposes continuing with more-or-less the present system of restricting the use of “controlled substances” by a confusing combination of (4) ________, medical provision, miscellaneous taxation, and occasional criminal sanctions for unauthorized distribution and use. Despite repeated failures, it is believed that (5) ________ in the system can yet be made and the problem solved.
The second proposes “cracking down” on drugs, eliminating the problem “once and for all”. The rhetoric (though not the practice) of the so-called “war on drugs” falls in this camp. Greater police powers and tougher sentencing, it is claimed, will put all the (6) _________ behind bars and save our children from the menace of illicit drugs.
The third proposes legalizing the sale of drugs across the board, in the belief that this will make the problem (7) _________. It’s not the drug that’s the menace; it’s the laws against them. If we didn’t have the laws, we wouldn’t have a problem.
The (8) ________ reader will already have detected a degree of cynicism in my description of these three approaches. Their apologists (or so it seems to me) seldom attempt any honest evaluation of the situation, or of the merits of other options, or of the demerits of their own position. Instead they (9) _______as dogmatists, emotionally tied to a single point of view: “liberal democracy good”, so carry on regardless; “drugs bad”, so declare a moral war; “freedom good”, so legalize everything.
Today’s drug dealing is probably the world’s most (10) ________crime. The Colombian international drug (11) ______, “Kali”, which monopolizes the trade in Los Angeles and Miami, is estimated (12) _________ over 80% of the world’s cocaine and a third of its heroin.
Illegal drug syndicates are estimated to take in about $25 billion a year in the United States alone. In 1998, 59 tons of cocaine and 770 pounds of heroin were confiscated by American police (13) __________.
(Paul Birch “Analysis of the Drug Problem”)
Talking Points
Exercise 25. Get ready to speak on the major problem connected with the illicit use of drugs:
three approaches to dealing with the drug problem;
world illegal drug syndicates.
Exercise 26. Express your opinion on the problem of smuggling. Use the expressions:
I don’t care much for …
I am not very fond of…
I’d rather …
Exercise 27. Role-play.
Your country has recently seen a big increase in drug use amongst the young. The government after looking at the different approaches of Holland and New York – has called on your committee to produce a range of ideas to lead the fight against the drugs menace.
In groups of four or five, you need to think about:
- new laws, whether to penalize drug use/the drug trade or to legalize certain aspects of it (give details about these laws);
- actions to educate the public against the dangers posed by drugs;
- other measures you think might be effective in the war against drugs.