Task 1. Read and make up a vocabulary of unknown words. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct time. Some years ago, Santa Luisa 1 … (be) popular for stag and hens, in other words, when large groups of young men (stags) and women (hens) 2 … (arrive) in town and 3 … (party) all night celebrating before one of the group 4 … (get) married. Rowdy and drunken behavior 5 … (be) common. The bars and nightclubs 6 … (become) places where people 7 … (deal) drugs, and there 8 … (be) beggars and pickpockets on the streets. However, things 9 … (change). Now, the local police (=they) 10 … (send) extra personnel to the town center, so more officers 11 … (patrol) the streets. They 12 … (detain) drunken offenders and 13 … (confiscate) the alcohol. Police officers also 14 … (arrest) people who 15 … (deal) with drugs and 16 … (remove) beggars from the tourist areas.

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