UNIT  : ETHICS IN BUSINESS SEQUENCE : READING AND WRIRING

WARMING UP:
 Link each caption with the correct picture. Write the right letter in the box. Compare your
answers with your partner.
a) A Girl carrying a bucket
of water on her head, a
role reserved to women
and young girls. Village
of Kajuru, Kaduna State,
Nigeria.
b) Indian child working in a
stone quarry near
Dhubri, India. Many
children who work in this
@meenzandteenz region earn less than 20
cents for 10 hours of
hard work.
c) Children weaving a
carpet in a carpet factory
near Cairo, Egypt.
d) A young boy uses a
machete to break cocoa
pods at a farm near
Abengourou in Ivory
Coast.
 Why do these children work? Check the appropriate answers, and then compare your
answers with a partner.
 They hate school  They need to financially support their families
 They don’t have money = they  Schools are not available in their towns
are poor = they cannot afford  Work is more important than education
their living
 It is their choice to work @meenzandteenz
 Match the list of examples with the corresponding industry in the pictures. Share your
answers with your partner.
a) ________________________ (gold in Colombia, Charcoal in Brazil and El Salvador,
chrome in Zimbabwe, diamonds in Cote d’Ivoire, emeralds in Colombia, coal in Mongolia)
b) ________________________ ( carpets from India, Pakistan, Egypt, clothing sewn in
Bangladesh, footwear made in India and the Philippines, soccer balls sewn in Pakistan, glass
and bricks made in India, fireworks made in China, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador,
Guatemala, India, and Peru, surgical instruments made in Pakistan)
 c) ________________________ (bananas in Ecuador, Cotton in Egypt and Benin, cut flowers
in Colombia, oranges in Brazil, cocoa in the Ivory Coast, tea in Argentina and Bangladesh, fruit
and vegetables in the U.S) @meenzandteenz

Agriculture Mining and quarrying Manufacturing

 Complete the following text with the appropriate words from the box. Use your dictionary
to look up difficult words , then hare your answers with your partner
stipulated keeps hazardous domestic harms
poor Soldiers attending work illicit

WHAT IS CHILD LABOUR?

Child labor is work that (1)_______________ children or (2)
_______________ them from (3) _______________ school.
The International Labor Organization estimates that 246
million children between the ages of 5 and 17 currently (4)
_______________ under conditions that are considered
illegal, (5), _______________ or extremely exploitative.
Underage children work at all sorts of jobs around the world,
usually because they and their families are extremely (6)
_______________ . Large numbers of children work in
commercial agriculture, fishing, manufacturing, mining and
quarrying, and (7) _______________ service. Some children
work in (8) _______________ activities like the drug trade
and prostitution or other traumatic activities such as serving
as (9)_______________ . The minimum age for employment
(10)_______________ by the International Organization is

fifteen. @meenzandteenz
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 Picture One: C / Picture Two: D / Picture Three: A / Picture Four: B
 Because they don’t have money = they are poor = they cannot afford their living / They need
to financially support their families
 a) Mining and Quarrying / b) Manufacturing / c) agriculture

(1) Harms (5) hazardous (9) soldiers
(2) Keeps (6) poor (10) stipulated
(3) Attending (7) domestic
(4) work (8) illicit