C) Find the proper answers in the answer box in the end of Unit 12 and use them to fill the gaps in the sentences below.

1) Every day, in schools across the country, there are __________________________that go unreported. Teenagers shoot their tutors and intimidate their classmates.

2) __________________________________________________provides a seven to 28-day program designed to provide people with the first step on their path to addiction recovery..

3) From 2007 to 2008, the percentage of 10th-graders reporting lifetime, past year, and past month ___________________________________________other than marijuana declined significantly.

4) As part of the National Drug Strategy in May 1986 Australian Government opened and started to fund________________________________________________________________________.

5) ________________________________________can cause behavioural problems, paranoia and psychosis, especially when used frequently and in individuals with a predisposition to mental illness.

6) We have every confidence that - together with our industry partners - we'll continue to meet the _______________________________________________________________of security to help our customers and the industry become more secure.

In class

Listen to the Webcast Ice use drops, heroin use rises and do the exercises.

12.1. What do these countries have in common?

Denmark, the Netherlands, Jamaica, The Check Republic

12.2. Listen and decide “who is who”?

12.C – Comprehension Test 1

Listen to the Webcast Ice Use Drops, Heroin Use Rises again and tick the correct answer.

12.B – Comprehension Test 2

Listen to the Webcast Ice Use Drops, Heroin Use Rises, answer the questions and fill in the gaps.

Part 1

What do the annual drug trend figures show?

What is the chemical term for a drug commonly called ”ice” ?

What is the sphere of Michael Turtle;s coverage?

Part 2

MICHAEL TURTLE: At the Salvation Army's __________________________________________in Sydney's Surry Hills, there are 10 beds.

The charity's Graham Drew says recently ______________________a change in the drugs that people using those beds are seeking help for.

GRAHAM DREW: Well, I've asked some of our _________________________________and they said over the last few weeks there has been a … they have noticed a trend where there are _________________in the numbers of people coming in ______________________ice and, correspondingly, a ________________ increase in the number of people using heroin.

Part 3

MICHAEL TURTLE: And that fits with the latest data from the National Drug and ________________

Research Centre.

The centre's Louisa Degenhardt says there's been a trend away from ice, and that's probably because it's now got______________________________________________.

LOUISA DEGENHARDT: And I think it's just experience. I mean, there's a lot of people who have had ____________________________of using the drug, because they've developed problems with it or it's had _____________________negative effects. And I think it's about people learning that there are risks and choosing not to take them.

Part 4

MICHAEL TURTLE: At the Salvo's detox centre, John has ________________himself _________his ice addiction, and he knows all about the negative effects it has.

JOHN: And I've seen myself, like, a few friends ___________and absolutely just been____________, _______________________aggressive, just going out looking to _______________________looking to get into fights, looking to destroy things, just going along, like people will just set fires in otto bins and just let them __________________________________________________on the ground, like just ____________________________________and aggression really.

MICHAEL TURTLE: The annual drug figures, though, show that heroin ___________________

_____________________________more commonly again.

_______________________________years since the heroin drought was credited with slowing the use of the drug, and Professor Degenhardt believes the ________________________may be on the rise again.

This is probably linked with increased production in places like_____________________________.

For the Federal Government, it presents _________________________________________________

Part 5

The Minister responsible for_____________________________, Christopher Pyne, claims some credit for the drop in ice.

CHRISTOPHER PYNE: Look, I think it's a combination of factors. One would be the_____________

___________________________ that the Government has run, recently of course on the television but also publicly over the last few years we've taken a very __________ line on the use of ________drugs, and particularly with respect to ice.

I think the media has played an important part in __________________________________the dangers of ice, and obviously drug users are responding to that, which is______________________________.

ELIZABETH JACKSON: And that's Christopher Pyne ending Michael Turtle's report.

12.A – Comprehension Test 3

Use these words and word –combinations to render the story in the written form.

crystal methamphetamine ice the Salvation Army's detox centre frontline people addicted to ice a spiked increase a bad reputation negative effects gone nuts get into punch-ups random acts of violence availability Afghanistan. a constantly evolving challenge drug policy firm line on the use of illicit drugs highlighting the danger

Text 13.

Castro's departure fails to stir Cubans

At home

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