VOCABULARY. dominate господствовать bloodletting кровопролитие organized crime организованная преступность massacre резня

dominate	господствовать	bloodletting	кровопролитие
organized crime	организованная преступность	massacre	резня
quit (quit / quitted; quitting)	бросать	disguise	переодевать
grade	класс	garage	гараж
quarrel	ссора	cold blood	хладнокровие
brothel	публичный дом	indict	предъявлять обвинение
saloon	салон	evasion	уклонение
hoodlum	хулиган	try	судить
slash	исполосовать	find guilty	признать виновным
razor	бритва	sentence	приговорить
prompt	подсказывать	fine	штраф
scar	шрам	court costs	судебные издержки
open up	сделаться доступным	penitentiary	тюрьма
retire	уходить в отставку, удаляться	transfer	переводить
czar	царь	suffer from	страдать от
run	руководить	syphilis	сифилис
gun	стрелять	release	освобождать
rival	соперник	powerless	бессильный
notorious	печально известный; пресловутый	recluse	затворник

► Ex. II. Agree or disagree with the following statements.

1) Capone was the most famous American actor. 2) Capone dominated organized crime in Palermo. 3) Capone's parents immigrated to England in 1931. 4) Capone was the first of nine children. 5) A young hooligan cut Capone with a sword across his right cheek. 6) Capone ran a loan business in Chicago in 1919. 7) In 1920 Capone murdered one of his bosses accident tally. 8) In 1921 Capone became crime czar of Chicago. 9) Capone didn't run gambling and bootlegging. 10) Capone kept company with his rival gangs. 11) Capone became bankrupt in 1927. 12) Capone used to kill his rivals in cold blood. 13) Capone was tried and sentenced to 19 years in prison. 14) Capone suffered from megalomania. 15) Capone died of starvation.

► Ex. III. Restore the word order in the following statements.

1) Capone the most famous American gangster was. 2) Capone organized crime in Chicago dominated. 3) Capone's parents to the US from Naples immigrated. 4) Capone became school and quit a member of a criminal gang. 5) A young hoodlum Capone with a knife across his left cheek slashed. 6) Capone crime czar of Chicago became. 7) Capone gambling and bootlegging ran. 8) Capone his territories by the gunning down of rivals and rival gangs expanded. 9) Capone for income-tax evasion was indicted. 10) Capone tried was and found guilty. 11) Capone to 11 years in prison was sentenced.

► Ex. IV. Translate the following words and phrases from Russian into English.

Подсказывать; шрам; сделаться доступным; уходить в отставку; удаляться; руководить; стрелять; господствовать; организованная преступность; бросать; класс; ссора; хулиган; исполосовать; бритва; уклонение; судить; признать виновным; приговорить; штраф; судебные издержки; тюрьма; соперник; пресловутый; кровопролитие; резня; переодевать; хладнокровие; предъявлять обвинение; затворник.

► Ex. V. Complete the following statements.

1) Al Capone was... 2) Capone dominated... 3) Capone's parents immigrated to... 4) Capone quit... and joined... 5)... slashed Capone with... 6) Capone assassinated... making way for... 7) Capone became... and ran... 8) Capone expanded... 9) Capone's wealth was estimated... 10) Capone was indicted for... and sentenced to... 11) Capone suffered from... 12) Capone retired to... 13) Capone died in...

► Ex. VI. Choose one topic to speak about Al Capone:

a) his family and his youth;

b) his help to his boss;

c) his activities and his criminal status in Chicago;

d) his life since June 1931.

Retell the text “Al Capone”.

UNIT 44

► Ex. I. Scan through the text Work in pairs to question the text and to give answers.

Lucky Luciano (1896-1962) - the most powerful chief of American organized crime in the early 1930s and a major influence even from prison, 1936-45, and after deportation to Italy in 1946. [To deport means to make someone who is not a citizen of a particular country leave that country, especially because they do not have a legal right to stay.] Luciano immigrated with his parents from Sicily to New York City in 1906 and, at the age of 10, was already involved in mugging, shoplifting, and extortion. [Mugging is an attack on someone in which they are robbed in a public place. Shoplifting is the crime of stealing things from shops, for example by hiding them in your bag, or under your clothes. To extort means to illegally force someone to give you money by threatening them.] In 1916 he spent six months in jail for selling heroin. He earned his nickname "Lucky" for success at evading arrest and winning craps games. In 1920 he directed bootlegging, prostitution, narcotics distribution, and protection racket. [Bootlegging is illegally making or selling alcohol. Protection racket is a system in which criminals demand money from you to stop them from damaging your property.] In October 1929 he was abducted by four men in a car, beaten, stabbed repeatedly with an ice pick, had his throat slit from ear to ear, and was left for dead on a beach—but survived. Lucky Luciano never named his abductors. He took an active part in the bloody gang war of 1930-31. By 1934 Luciano had become capo di tutti capi ("boss of all the bosses"). Then, in 1935, New York special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey bore down on Luciano, gathering evidence of his brothel and call-girl empire. In 1936 he was indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced for a 50-year term. From his prison cell Luciano continued to rule and issue orders. In 1946 his sentence was commuted and he was deported to Italy, where he settled in Rome. In Naples, Lucky Luciano continued to direct the drug traffic into the United States and the smuggling of foreigners to America. [Smuggling is the crime of taking things illegally from one country to another.] Lucky Luciano died of a heart attack in Naples in 1962.