Put the correct words from the table below in the article.

Police _____the house during the night and found _____ kilos of cocaine and around 65,000 _____ in cash. They _____ 80-year-old Maria Valdebenito and 72-year-old Giselle Gilbert and charged them with _____ trafficking offences.

Mrs Valdebenito is _____. Prosecutors say she received the drugs from her_____and passed them to her younger and more agileaccompliceto_____. The _____ that the women used as their baseis just a few metres from Chile's biggest police academy.

Prosecutors say the women _____ be taken intopreventativecustodywhile their case is considered. But, because of their frail state of health, they might be placed under house arrest instead.

10. Look in your dictionaries / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms etc for the words ‘police’ and ‘offence’. Fill in the table given below.

· Share your findings with your partners.

· Make questions using the words you found.

· Ask your partner / group your questions.

UNIT 10. ILLEGAL DOWNLOADS

A. BEFORE LISTENING

Practice the pronunciation of the following words taken from the text which you are going to listen to.

Report, advising, government, copyright, consumer, attitudes, illegal, downloading, researchers, file-sharing, network, access, worth, uncertainty, confusion, warns, criminalizing.

Give Russian equivalents to the following English words and word combinations.

A body advising the government, to advise on copyright, consumer attitudes, illegal downloading, file-sharing network, to get free access to material, worth some billion pounds, to download illegally, to be involved, uncertainly about what is illegal, to add to the confusion, to warn the government, to criminalise downloaders, huge economic costs.

B. WHILE LISTENING

3. Listen to the text “Illegal downloads”. Make notes about the numbers which you might hear.

Agree or disagree to the following statements.

1) The report for a body advising the government on patents looks at consumer attitudes to counterfeiting.

2) Researchers called 1.3 million people during the weekend.

3) Researchers worked out that over a month, people were getting free access to material worth 20 billion pounds.

4) The report says there are six million people who download illegally.

5) People who download illegally in the USA are students and older people.

6) The report says there's much uncertainty about what is or is not illegal.

7) The confusion is that so much on the internet is free.

8) The report advises the government to criminalize downloaders.

Listen to the text again and fill in the gaps using the following words.

Illegal downloads

The report for a body advising the _____ on _____ looks at consumer attitudes to _____ downloading. _____ found 1.3 million people online on just one file-sharing network on a _____ and worked out that over a year, they were getting _____ access to material _____ 120 billion pounds.

The _____ says seven million people who _____ illegally in the UK can't all be _____ , older people must also be _____. But it says there's _____ about what is or is not illegal, and the fact that so much on the _____ is free only adds to the _____. The report warns the government that _____ downloaders could have _____ economic costs and might not even _____.

C. AFTER LISTENING

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