Наркотики в желудке и носках

В аэропорту Шереметьево задержан «глотатель» из Узбекистана.

48-летний гражданин Республики Узбекистан прибыл из Ташкента в столицу с 59 контейнерами наркотиков общей массой 622 грамма, преимущественно героина. Наркокурьер вёз контрабанду в брюшной полости и носках. Узбек вину признал, сейчас он находится под стражей. Возбуждено уголовное дело.

Speaking

Task 22.Make as many sentences as possible.

Passing through the Customs passengers MUST…

HAVE TO…

SHOULD…

CAN …

Task 23. Discuss the following:

What would happen : 1) if there were no Red and Green Channel system?

2) if countries opened their borders to everyone?

Task 24. Get ready to speak on the topic. Use the vocabulary of the unit.

Communication activities.

Task 25.Read and role play short dialogues:

1) - Where is your customs declaration? Show it, please.

- Here it is.

- Crosses and dashes are not allowed in the declaration.

- Will you take a new form? Fill it once again, please.

- All right.

2) - Have you filled in your declaration?

- Of course.

- You failed to write the data and sign it.

-O.K.Thanks.

3) - Will you show me your declaration?

- With pleasure.

- Be careful when filling in the form. Will you read all the points

carefully and write down all your answers in words?

-Certainly.

Task 26.Match right and left.

1. Go to the red channel… a) on the table in the middle of the hall.

2. Go to the green channel… b) and then go through the Customs.

3. You should fill in your declaration c) if you have something to declare.

first…

4. Let me see… d) if you have nothing to declare.

5. You can find forms… e) what you have.

Task 27.Make up dialogues on the topics below and act them out:

1) Explain to your friend who is going abroad, how it is necessary to fill in the customs declaration.

2) Your friend is going abroad by air for the first time. Explain to him the system of going through the customs.

VOCABULARY

UNIT 7

PASSENGER CUSTOMS DECLARATION FORM

Text 1

Task 1. Read and translate the text.

Russia like almost all countries has certain formalities through which passengers must pass. They include passport and visa control and customs inspection of passengers’ baggage.

Almost all countries have forms that the passenger must fill in. Incoming passengers fill in an entry declaration form, outgoing passengers fill in an exit declaration form which is to be presented to the customs officer. The pointsof the declaration must be answered in full words in block letters. The passenger is to fill in his full name, citizenship, country of residence, country of destination, etc. The passenger must also declare prohibited, restricted and dutiable articles that he is carrying across the border. Information must be presented both in figures and in words. Personal belongings are brought in and taken out duty free and need not be declared.

If the passenger understates the value of an article or misrepresentsthe article in his declaration form, he may have to pay a penalty in addition to payment of duty. The article can be detained and confiscated if the penalty is not paid. If in doubt about the value of an article, the passenger should declare it and then ask the customs officer for assistance in valuing it.

Undeclared foreign currency in cash found during the search is liable to confiscation as smuggling.

The customs officer may ask the passenger to open his baggage for inspection, because the customs officer always has the right to check if the passenger is complying with the regulations and that he is not transporting goods exceedingthe quantities for which no formalities are required. The owner of the baggage must answer all the questions of the officer-in-charge on the contents of his baggage and must presentany article for examination. It is the passenger’s responsibility to unpack,open and repack hisbelongings.

The entry declaration must be kept by the passenger for the duration of the stay in the country or abroad and must be presented together with the exit declaration on the way back. It can’t be renewed in case of loss.

Working on the text

Task 2. Put the words into the correct column according to the pronunciation:

channel, transaction, issue, cultural, mission, violation, valuation, manufacture, efficient, commission, essential, prosecution

Task 3. a) Translate the following words and phrases and learn their pronunciation.

b) Explain the meaning of the underlined expressions.

- incoming/outgoing

- entry/exit declaration

- points

- in full words

- in block letters

- citizenship

- country of residence

- country of destination

- in figures and in words

- personal belongings

- to understate

- to misrepresent

- to pay a penalty

- to detain

- foreign currency

- (in) cash

Task 4. Find in the text English equivalents of the following:

паспортнo-визовый контроль; таможенный досмотр багажа; заполнить въездную/выездную декларацию; задекларировать облагаемые пошлиной предметы; ввозить и вывозить беспошлинно; помимо уплаты пошлины; помощь в оценке товара; незадекларированная иностранная валюта; во время досмотра; соблюдать правила; на протяжении пребывания в стране; на обратном пути; в случае утери не возобновляется

Task 5. Look through the text and find antonyms to the following words:

- incoming passenger

- entry declaration

- dutiable articles

- to bring in

- to break laws

- to exclude

- to leave

- to overstate

- to unpack

- to arrive

Task 6.Look through the text and complete the table:

Task 7. Find the words in the text that follow the words below:

a) to include __________

b) to fill in __________

c) to declare __________

d) to understate __________

e) to misrepresent ___________

f) to pay __________

g) to exceed __________

h) to present __________

Task 8. Answer the questions:

1. What are certain formalities through which passengers must pass?

2. What do incoming/outgoing passengers fill in?

3. How must the points of the declaration be answered?

4. What document is the passenger to fill in?

5. What must the passenger declare?

6. What happens if the passenger understates the value of the article or misrepresents it in his declaration?

7. In what case can the article be detained and confiscated?

8. What is liable to confiscation as smuggling?

9. How does a customs officer check if the passenger is complying with the regulations?

10. How long must the entry declaration be kept?

Task 9. Translate the sentences from Russian into English:

1. Пассажиры, прибывающие в страну, обычно заполняют въездную декларацию.

2. Пассажиры, выезжающие из страны, заполняют выездную декларацию, которая должна предъявляться таможенному инспектору.

3. Все пункты декларации должны заполняться полными словами печатными буквами.

4. В декларации пассажир должен указать свое полное имя, гражданство, страну проживания, страну назначения и другие сведения.

5. Пассажир должен также задекларировать запрещенные, ограниченные к ввозу/вывозу и облагаемые пошлиной предметы, которые он провозит через границу.

6. Личные вещи ввозятся и вывозятся беспошлинно и не подлежат декларированию.

7. Предмет может быть изъят или конфискован, если штраф не уплачен.

8. Незадекларированная наличная валюта, найденная при досмотре, подлежит конфискации как контрабанда.

9. Этого пассажира досматривают уже в течение часа. Полагаю, он имеет в багаже незадекларированные предметы, которые были обнаружены после применения технических средств контроля.

Task 10. Complete the sentences in English:

The declaration form 1) заполняется полными словами.

2) подписывается пассажиром.

3) предъявляется таможеннику.

4) просматривается таможенником.

5) возвращается пассажиру.

6) хранится во время пребывания в стране.

Text 2

Task 11. a) Read and translate the text.

PRIZED VIOLIN GROUNDED BY RED TAPE*

Just like Michael Jackson, who once tried to take a Cossak saber out of Russia, U.S. violinist Ernesto Farago ran up against Russia’s peculiar laws on antiques when he tried to take his musical instrument out of the country.

Mr. Farago’s 1940 Italian violin was detained by customs officials at Sheremetyevo airport on the suspicion that he was trying to smuggle it out of Russia.

The incident seems to have been the result of misunderstanding.

Mr. Farago, speaking from his home in Springfield, Virginia, said that he failed to declare his instrument, worth $28,000 because he had been misinformed by customs officials in the arrival terminal.

“I was told by an officer that if I was bringing in the instrument for professional purposes, there was no need for me to declare it,” said Mr. Farago, who had visited Russia to play two concerts in Voronezh.

He has now been separated from his beloved violin for nearly a month, but the saga should soon end happily.

The Culture Ministry received a document from U.S. confirming that this instrument belongs to Mr. Farago and is ready to issue permission to take the instrument out of the country. The Ministry official in charge of the export and import of items of cultural and historical value said that all problems could have been avoided if Mr. Farago had declared the instrument upon his arrival.

It says on the customs declaration form that all valuables of a historical and cultural nature should be declared. This is so they can be taken out of the country again.

(from “Moscow Times”)

*Red tape – official rules that seem unnecessary and prevent things from being

done quickly and easily (syn. bureaucracy)

b) Make a glossary. Choose seven words to remember.

c) Answer the questions:

1. What happened to Ernesto Farago at Sheremetyevo airport?

2. What was the passenger accused of?

3. Why was the violin detained?

4. Why didn’t Mr. Farago declare his violin?

5. How long did the investigation last?

6. What was Mr. Farago’s mistake?

7. Has the violin been returned to its owner?

8. What can you say about the customs officer who had misinformed

Mr.Farago?

9. What customs regulations can you remember in respect of this incident?

10. Do you think such cases are common?

11. What should be done to avoid such misunderstandings?

Task 12.Sum up the information from the newspaper article:

a) Comment on the situation from the point of view of:

- Mr. Farago;

- a customs officer from Sheremetyevo airport;

- a Federal Customs Service official;

- a Culture Ministry official;

- a U.S. CBP official;

- the violin;

b) write a brief report for TV news program.

Vocabulary and Grammar

Task 13. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions, if necessary. Find false statements and correct them.

1) Before you illegally enter _______ the country you will have to pass _______ certain formalities _______ Foreign Exchange Office.

2) Don’t fail to fill _______ an exit declaration form ______ full words ______ block letters.

3) Remember that you are to declare _______ duty free articles and personal belongings when you bring them ______ or take them _______ of the country. 4) To comply _______ the regulations you shouldn’t declare foreign currency. 5) Money presented ______ inspection is liable ______ confiscation.

6) The officer-in-charge must answer ______ all the questions _______ the owner of the baggage _______ the contents of the X-ray machine.

7) Any document can be renewed ______ case _______ loss.

Task 14.a)Findverbs in the text which correspond to the following definitions:

a) to get free by doing what is necessary (signing papers, paying duties) when entering/leaving the country _______________

b) to make a statement of dutiable goods brought into the country _______________

c) to write one’s name and other particulars required to make the form

complete _______________

d) to hide, to keep secret _______________

e) to keep back, to prevent from leaving or going forward when suspected of wrong-doing _______________

f) to take possession of private property without compensation or payment

_______________

g) to look at something carefully in order to learn about it_____________

h) to limit something that a person may use for foreign travel _____________

i) to carry more than one has authority to carry ________________

j) to act in accordance with a request or command _______________

b) Use five of these verbs to write sentences of your own.

Task 15.Revise the rule on IF/WHEN-clauses and complete the sentences:

1) It won’t take you long to pass through the Customs IF …..

2) You will be legally free to enter the country WHEN …..

AS SOON AS …..

AFTER …..

3) The customs officer won’t let you through IF …..

UNTIL …..

BEFORE …..

Task 16.Put a question tag at the end of the following sentences:

Model: He works in shifts, doesn’t he?

Study the exceptions: Let’s go, shall we?

Студент пытался провезти в желудке кило кокаина

Таможенники в аэропорту Манчестера были поражены, увидев прилетевшего чернокожего студента. Парень бережно поддерживал руками свой живот, вздутый, как у женщины на пятом месяце беременности.

Подозрительного субъекта задержали и просветили на рентгене. Оказалось, что в желудке у него запрятано 67 упаковок с кокаином общим весом 1 килограмм. Содержимое желудка пассажира по стоимости тянуло на 300 тысяч евро – абсолютный рекорд. Наркокурьеров с такой богатой «начинкой» британцам ловить ещё не приходилось.

Студент заявил, что понятия не имел, что это наркотики. «Я думал, глотаю что-то другое и провезу в Британию в виде подарка другу», - лепетал задержанный. Ответом ему был дружный смех таможенников.

Speaking

Task 21. Complete the following sentences:

1. The customs formalities include . . .

2. To declare an item is to …

3. The points of the declaration must be answered . . .

4. The passenger is to fill in . . .

5. The passenger must also declare . . .

6. Personal belongings are brought in and . . .

7. If the passenger understates the value of the article . . .

8. Undeclared foreign currency in cash found . . .

9. The customs officer may ask the passenger to open . . .

10. The owner of the baggage must answer . . .

11. The declaration must be kept . . .

Task 22. Make up short dialogues between a customs officer and a passenger discussing the following points:

1) the formalities through which incoming/outgoing passengers must pass;

2) the main points of the declaration;

3) the way the declaration should be filled in;

4) prohibited, restricted and dutiable articles.

Task 23. Get ready to speak on the topic. Use the vocabulary of the unit.

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