0. Roast chicken is traditionally eaten with potatoes and vegetables as well as stuffing.
1. The Nigerian man used to work as ………….………….……. in Brazil.
2. The value of the drug he wanted to smuggle was …………………………..……………… .
3. The investigators found the drug in packages which looked like ……………….……. .
4. The Nigerian man had planned to ……………….……. with the money made from the drug sales.
5. Nigerian authorities have recently found drugs inside ……………………………………, wigs and stethoscopes.
6. Three years ago a man on his way to Detroit was spotted with a bomb hidden in ………………………………………… .
7. The chicken is the ………………………………………… to an extinct species, the gigantic and terrifying tyrannosaurus rex!
Jennifer: Hello and welcome, I'm Jennifer and with me today is Rob.
Rob: Hello there.
Jennifer: Now, Rob, are you a fan of roast chicken?
Rob: Definitely. There’s nothing better than a lovely roast chicken on a Sunday, with all the trimmings, of course!
Jennifer: Here in the UK, people traditionally eat roast (0) potatoes and vegetables with their chicken, as well as stuffing.
Rob: Stuffing is a mixture of breadcrumbs and herbs which is stuffed, or pushed, inside the roast chicken. And it is delicious!
Jennifer: Well, you might be surprised to learn that today’s story is about stuffing roast chickens with something rather different… Let’s return to our story now, which is all about a failed attempt at drug smuggling in Nigeria. Our story is about a Nigerian man, living in Brazil, who was struggling to earn a decent living. The man had been working as (1) a mechanic in Brazil, but decided he could earn more money if he smuggled drugs to sell back in his native country of Nigeria. Let’s listen to the first part of a report by BBC correspondent Leana Hosea. How did the mechanic try to smuggle drugs into Nigeria?
A Nigerian mechanic has been caught by the Drug Enforcement Agency in Lagos airport, Nigeria, attempting to smuggle (2) $150,000 worth of cocaine in roast chickens. Investigators say they found over 2.5kg of the unusual stuffing, wrapped up in tin foil, (3) [eggs] egg-shaped packages.
Jennifer: He was very inventive as he hid the drugs in egg-shaped packages.
Rob: It’s certainly risky, though. So why did he try to bring drugs into Nigeria?
Jennifer: Well, it seems he had a plan for the money. Here’s the second part of Leana Hosea’s report:
They called it a remarkable seizure, saying they never expected to find thousands of dollars’ worth of drugs in roast chickens. The suspect had flown in from Brazil, where he had been allegedly struggling to make a decent living for years. A spokesman for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency says this was the suspect's retirement plan, and he had been hoping to (4) start a business with the drug sales.
Jennifer: Smugglers are using increasingly imaginative ways to conceal their drugs.
Rob: Recently the Nigerian authorities have found drugs hidden in the lining of (5) suitcases, in wigs and even in a doctor’s stethoscope!
Jennifer: Let’s listen to the final part of the report.
Nigeria is a major transit point for drugs, but the authorities have made efforts to improve security after a Nigerian man was discovered on a plane to Detroit, attempting to explode a bomb in (6) his underpants three years ago. The Nigerian authorities say airport body scanners have helped identify more than one hundred drug carriers last year.
Jennifer: It’s really an ongoing battle, but they are trying to improve security, particularly at airports.
Rob: Thankfully the drugs hidden inside the chickens did not make it into the country this time.
Jennifer: Indeed. Now, speaking of chickens, the chicken is the (7) closest relative to an extinct species. The chicken is actually the closest living relative of the gigantic and terrifying dinosaur, the tyrannosaurus rex!
Rob: I’ll never look at a chicken, or eat a chicken, in the same way again!
Jennifer: Bye for now!
Rob: Bye.
