V6C - 12-10-2022 - Les 15

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WELCOME

Today is the 12th of October

The Word of the Day is misnomer

noun | miss-NOH-mer

"an incorrect name or designation"

'Villa' was a misnomer, tha place was no more than an old farmhouse. .

TODAY

After this lesson you will

• ... have worked on Sweden

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The annual customs statistics on the round-up of drug rings and confiscation of drugs and liquor are discussed again and again at the beginning of each new year as if they were the results of major sports events.
This year the Director General Kjell Jansson was glad to be able to announce that more and more (ever more) liquor is confiscated.

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Disappointed (however) / Not so happy he had to add that fewer (less) kilos of drugs had been traced, even though more runners (traffickers) had been captured. From the Baltic states in particular, a veritable flood of amphetamine transports has been coming to Sweden in recent years, for which the capital of Stockholm is the final destination.

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And in the South of Sweden the vast group of travellers who prefer the new Sont Bridge prove to be hard to check, as Jansson remarked. Eighty trains a day can’t all be thoroughly checked.

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In other respects Sweden also struggles with its harsh / strict policy. The(se) Scandinavians only meet / are only met with approval from // are only backed by the United States every now and again, whereas other European countries indeed dare go for some form of liberalisation / legalisation. / dare to venture further into policies on drugs that stem from a more liberal mindset.

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