Immigration Conversation: Detention

Here is a conversation between a Border Control Officer and a traveller at a border in Lithuania! Fill in
the missing words in the conversation below with the words in the box!

answer with smuggling documents luggage follow

know right thank you asking hide declaration

Officer : Border control. Your documents, please.

Foreigner : Just a moment. I have to look for them in my overcoat. Here you are.

Officer : Your documents are all right. Now I’d like to have a look at your luggage and the
customs declaration.

Foreigner : Very well, sir. This is my luggage. Would you like a cigarette?

Officer : No, thank you. I don’t smoke. Everything is alright as yet. Oh, and what is this?

Foreigner : I beg your pardon?

Officer : I’m asking if you know what this is?

Foreigner : Do you mean this? Oh, it’s a gift.

Officer : If it’s a gift there was no reason to hide it so deeply.

Foreigner : You know what I thought…

Officer : I’d like to know what you thought.

Foreigner : I imagined I could buy it for my wife as a gift. You know how it is… present from abroad,
from Poland…

Officer : Yes, I know. But I suppose that you won’t deny that the quantity and kinds of these
hidden things would indicate smuggling rather than gifts.

Foreigner : You are right, I think.

Officer : In that case, you are asked to take your luggage and follow me to the office.

Foreigner : Will it take long? Will it be confiscated? If it must be taken away from me, please do
your duty here.

Officer : Come along with me, please.

Foreigner : If there is no other way, let’s go.

Officer : I hope it won’t be long. You are supposed to answer some questions.

Practice the conversation above with a partner! Take turns to be the officer and the foreigner!