1. first, overseas workers usually receive 2.

The working conditions in many offshore

very low wages
1. People often work 14hours day and
earn less than 100 dollars a month
2. Textile workers earn less than 40%
of the money needed to live
3. In some cases, they earn only a few
cents for making a dress
4. A research in Delhi says garment
workers can’t afford to pay their
basics needs
5. Such low wages are wrong and
unfair
are uncomfortable and unsafe
1. Workers protection laws either don’t
exist or often are not followed
2. In a clothing factory the noise was so
loud that I had to cover my ears
3. In 2012 a fire broke out in factory that
killed 117 people and injured 200
4. Moreover, factory building are often
unsafe

In my opinion they do not justify the low wages and dangerous conditions found In many
overseas factories today
I believe they should contribute a much larger share of their massive profits to correcting
these problems and improving social conditions in the countries where they are located

Page 159 exercise 1

Main argument: To make clothes at these low prices, companies have to keep costs down.
They use offshore production to do this.

Page 160 exercise 3

Facts statistics Expert opinion Quotations Examples

The unites states One study of 15
alone imported countries found
almost 122 that textile workers
billion dollars’ earned less than
worth of textiles 40% of the money
in 2014 they needed to live
David Schneider, say “garment workers in
that outsourcing benefits countries like India
local economies by and Bangladesh can’t
providing jobs at higher afford to pay their
wages than local worker basics needs like food
can make by working in and healthcare, we
agriculture need to establish a
fair wage for the work
they do”
For example, the
whole world was
shocked in 2012
when a fire broke
out at a garment
factory in Dhaka,
Bangladesh, that
killed 117 people
and injured 200

Personal experience
I saw this myself when I visited a clothing
factory in Bangladesh in 2015. The noise was
so loud that I had to cover my ears. Moreover,
factory buildings are often unsafe

Page 160 exercise 4

1. It uses facts, statistics, expert opinions, quotations, examples and personal
experience as evidence, but the more use are the examples.
2. In my opinion the more use in the expert’s opinions because in many academical
books there are many of them
3. The examples because I think that with examples is easier to understand the
information