Working on the text. Task 5. Write out all geographical names and explain the use of articles, if any

Task 5. Write out all geographical names and explain the use of articles, if any.

Task 6. Write out the names of all drugs mentioned in the text.

Task 7. How are drugs usually carried? Why?

Task 8. The noun “traffic” is polysemantic. Dictionaries provide several meanings of this word in various context. Here they are:

a) the vehicles moving along a road or street: (We were stuck in heavy traffic);

b) the movement of aircraft, ships, or trains from one place to another (air traffic control, the problems of air traffic congestion in Europe);

c) the secret buying and selling of illegal goods (drugs traffic, traffic in firearms);

d) the movement of people or goods by aircraft, ships, or trains (Most long – distance traffic of heavy goods is done by ships.).

Translate all illustrative examples and choose the meaning of the word used in the text.

Task 9. Match the words in the left column with the proper definition in the right column.

1. trafficker a) someone who takes dangerous drugs and is dependent on them

2. dealer b) something that causes a lot of suffering

3. scrutiny c) when people are made to obey a rule, law

4. coup d) dishonest, illegal behavior, especially from someone with power

5. hub e) someone who buys and sells a particular product

6. scourge f) careful and thorough examination

7. graft (Am.E.) g) someone who buys and sells illegal goods, especially drugs

8. enforcement h) the central and most important part of an area, system, activity

9. junky (junkie) i) the practice of obtaining money by the dishonest use of power

10. corruption j) a sudden and sometimes violent attempt by citizens or the army to take control of the government

Task 10. We can use several verbs when describing the function of Customs officers to control passengers and their luggage.

They are: to control, to examine, …

Continue the line with the verbs you already know.

Task 11. Translate the definition of “money laundering” into Russian.

Money laundering is a process of putting money which has been obtained illegally into legal business and bank accounts in order to hide where it was obtained.

Task 12. Which one is not the same?

a) a passenger, a dealer, a trafficker, an airport;

b) Africa, Europe, America, Commission;

c) Belgium, Spain, India, European;

d) export, import, trade, illegal;

e) trafficking, carrying, emerging, newest;

f) inevitably, economic, typical, powerful.

Task.13 Use a dictionary to find out the difference in the meaning of the two words: “famous” and “notorions”.

Task 14. Answer the following questions.

1) Why were four passengers caught and arrested?

2) Why had they agreed to swallow the drugs?

3) Why is West Africa the newest centre for trafficking drugs into Europe?

4) What countries involved in the illegal trade are mentioned in the text?

5) Since when have the drugs been trickling across Nigeria’s border?

6) When was the drug agency founded in Nigeria?

7) What scandal was it immersed in?

8) What does the country lack?

9) Where will new technology be installed?

10) What is the country already notorious for?

Task 15. Translate the following newspaper article into Russian.