Task 11.

Put the correct prepositions: across, along, at, during, from, in, of, on, over, to. Make up your own sentences with these phrases.

Movement … goods, regulation … trade, duties …tea, prohibition … drugs, participation … trade, to be prohibited … export, embargo … trade, to earn revenue … export, to smuggle goods … the continent, … the edges of the USA, … embargo of 1807, … defiance of the law, to cut down … smuggling, … the US-Mexico Border, … modern times, smuggling … national borders, smuggling … water, smuggling … land.

Task 12.

Fill in: border, checkpoint, customs duties, evasion, goods, high-revenue, importation, legitimately, regulations, restrictions, smuggled, smuggling, spirits, trade.

Smuggling is conveyance of things by stealth, particularly the clandestine movement of … or persons across an international …, in violation of applicable laws or other …. Smugglers want to evade … or import or export ….

Smuggling is probably as old as the first tax or regulation on …. Smuggling flourishes when and where there are … duties (e.g., on tea, …, and silks, coffee and tobacco almost everywhere) or prohibitions on … (narcotics) or on exportation (arms and currency). In the 18th century, tea, tobacco, spices, silks, and spirits were … into England in quantities exceeding those brought in ….

There are various motivations to smuggle. These include the participation in illegal trade, such as drugs, illegal immigration or emigration, tax …, the theft of the items being smuggled. Examples of non-financial motivations include bringing banned items past a security … (such as airline security) or the removal of classified documents from a government or corporate office.

The most common types of … are smuggling of goods, people smuggling, human trafficking, wildlife smuggling.

Task 13.

Match up the kind of smuggling and particular objects. Make up definitions for the following crimes (1-6).

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Task 14. Game work. Divide a class into two groups.

Find synonyms among the following words. Explain their meaning in your own words. Try to guess how all these people can be connected with smuggling (10 min). Share your variants and choose the best one.

Model: Words merchant and trader are synonyms. Merchant is a person who buys or sells goods in order to get some profit. Some merchants try to smuggle illegal goods hidden among their legal goods.

Task 15. Make up a conversation on the topic “History of smuggling” between: a) British and American students; b) Russian and British students; c) Russian and American students. Use Appendix II. Supplementary reading.

Task 16. Work in a team (of 3-4 people) and discuss the following points:

1. What countries are famous for their rate of smuggling?

2. What countries “specialize” in smuggling of some certain goods? Is such specialization typical for the modern world?

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