Improved security at borders means that smugglers are coming up with increasingly inventive ways of getting drugs into countries. In this week's 6 Minute English, Jen and Rob discuss the story of a mechanic who used roast chickens to try to smuggle cocaine into Nigeria.
This week's question:
The chicken is thought to be the closest living relative to which extinct species?
a) The dodo
b) The tyrannosaurus rex
c) The pterodactyl
Listen out for the answer at the end of the programme.
Listen
Cocaine chicken
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Vocabulary
- stuffing
savoury mixture of herbs and breadcrumbs, traditionally served with roast meat
- extinct
no longer in existence
- smuggle
bring something into a country without declaring it
- conceal
hide
- inventive
creative
- retirement plan
arrangements you make for your life after you stop working (often financial)
- seized
taken
- remarkable
unexpected, unusual
