3S / U2=> ILL- GOTTEN GAINS NEVER PROSPER SEQUENCEVI=>READING/WRITING

A.BEFORE READING Consider the PICTURES then discuss the questions with your teacher.

a. The pictures represent...............................................................................................

b. The company that employs children at this age is violating some of their rights like: (give examples)
The right to..............................................................................................................
c. Companies which use child labour are ......................................................................
d. Do you think that such companies respect the legal minimum age to work of these children? .............
e. In this case, children are exposed to ..........................................................................
f. Are children’s rights, in Algeria, respected? Give examples.
..................................................................................................................................
g. “CHILD LABOUR” can be limited if companies’ business activities are controlled and labour standards
are examined. This examination is called ........................................................................
h. You expect your reading text to be about: ................................................................

B.WHILE READING Read the text then do the activities.

Child labour refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives them of their childhood,
interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and that is physically, socially or morally dangerous. This
practice is considered exploitative by many international organisations and it is prohibited by many legislative
powers across the world.

Although companies are aware that child labour is unethical and forbidden, many of them like and
continue to employ children because they can pay them less than adults. Very few children know enough
about their legal rights to ask for better pay and working conditions; in addition to this, the parents of
working children rarely protest, they need the child’s salary to survive.
The International Labour Organization estimates that 168 million children between the ages of 5 and
17 currently work under conditions that are considered illegal and extremely exploitative. Although Sub-
Saharan Africa has the highest incidence rates of child labour, this phenomenon also exists in Europe and the
United States.
Underage children work at all sorts of jobs around the world, usually because they and their families
are extremely poor. Large numbers of children work in fishing, manufacturing, mining, and domestic service.
Some children work in illicit activities like the drug trade and others serve as soldiers. Worldwide agriculture
is the largest employer of child labour; that is why, vast majority of child labour is found in rural settings and
informal urban economy.
(Adapted from Wikipedia)

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1. Choose the right answer
The text is extracted from:
a- a newspaper. b- the internet c- a scientific magazine

2.: Read the text and say whether the following statements are true or false:
a- Child labour is a forbidden practice.......................
b- Many children are employed by different companies because they are good workers......................
c- Child labour exists only in the developing countries.....................
3. Answer the following questions according to the text.
a- What is child labour?
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b- Why do companies like to employ children?
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c- In which domain do we find the largest number of working children?
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4. Choose the suitable general idea.
a- Child labour is a necessity in business.
b- Children’s right to education in the world.
c- Child labour, a worldwide unethical practice.

5. Match each word with its definition.

Word Definition
1- Forbidden a- to take something necessary away from someone
2- illicit b- not allowed, especially by the law
3- to deprive c- Using someone else unfairly for one’s own advantages
4- exploitative d- Illegal or disapproved of by society

6. Who or what do the underlined words refer to in the text?

a- This §1 ..............................................
b- them §2 ...............................................
c- their §2 ..............................................
d- others §4 .............................................

C.AFTER READING
Fill in the blanks in the following passage with the following words:
(ethically, social audits, conditions, pollution, unethically, ethical issues)
Child labour is not the only social issue that businesses should care about. Environment and the
problem of................................, working .............................. and the salaries, consumption and safety, and the
way of winning new businesses are considered by most observers as........................................... For this
reason, some companies are commissioning .............................................to evaluate the effect of their
behaviour on the society. This social auditing is crucial because some think that
......................................responsible companies are more likely to prosper than those which
behave.......................................