TASK 9 One Heart Group

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True or false? (According to the passage.)

 

  1. Chocolate was eaten as a solid in South America

Ans: True

  1. Chocolate was later consumed as a drink in Europe.

Ans: True

  1. Cocoa trees were grown in plantations by the Aztecs.

Ans: True

  1. Chocolate was first consumed by the Mayan people in 600A.D.

Ans: True

  1. Chocolate was consumed a great deal by all Aztec people whenever they wished.

Ans: True

  1. The chocolate drunk by Mayan people was sweet and had an attractive smell.

Ans:True

  1. Cocoa beans were the only form of money that the Aztec and Mayan people used.

Ans: True

  1. The Spanish invaded the Aztec and Mayan kingdoms.

Ans: False

  1. The Mayan capital Tenochtitlan was destroyed by the Spanish.

Ans:False

  1. People did not feel that the cocoa been was important when Columbus brought it back to Spain.

Ans: True

  1. The Spanish were not keen to tell people how to find the cocoa beans.

Ans: False

  1. Chocolate was very expensive when it first came to England.

Ans: True

  1. There were three reasons why chocolate became more easily available to
    everyone in Britain.

Ans: True

 

Pre-reading activities
 
  1. Do you think there is still trading in slaves today?

Ans: I think it's still there

  1. Do you think this is likely to be carried out in exactly the same way as in the past?

Ans: It isn't the slavery we are all familiar with and which most of us imagine was abolished decades ago," says Brian. "Back then, a slave owner could produce documents to prove ownership. Now, it's a secretive trade which leaves behind little evidence. Modern slaves are cheap and disposable. They have three things in common with their ancestors. They aren't paid, they are kept working by violence or the threat of it and they are not free to leave. People are still living like this all over the world."

  1. What do you think deal in misery means?

Ans: a state, thing, or place that causes suffering or discomfort

  1. What do you think the title means?

Ans: When People Eat Chocolate, They Eat My Meat

  1. Which parts of the world do you think might be mentioned in this article?

Ans: in Ivory Coast, West African country

 

Skimming

 

Skim the text in no more than 3 minutes to find out what the article is about. Compare what you an other students find.

Ans: the article talks about slavery in chocolate-related work

 

Scanning

 

Quickly scan the text to find the answers to these questions.

  1. What are the names of the Cadbury families?

Ans: The great Quaker families

  1. What are the names of the two film makers?

Ans: Kate Blewett

  1. Where have they worked before?

Ans: in Cote D'Ivoire, the West African country

  1. What adjective is used to describe the film that they made?

Ans:so sad

  1. Are the slaves mainly men or women? What sort of age are they?

Ans: They discovered young men, mostly teenagers as young as 14 and 15.

  1. How much may a slave cost?

Ans: mostly teenagers as young as 14 and 15, are bought and sold in markets for as little as £20.

  1. What is the BCCCA?

Ans: Is the British chocolate companies, through the Biscuit, Cake, Chocolate and Confectionery Alliance (BCCCA)

  1. How many workers did the film makers talk to?

Ans: When we saw cocoa, we walked into the trees to talk to any workers we could find -- about 100 on different farms

  1. What percentage of farms may use slave labour?

Ans: is many as 90 per cent of cocoa farms there are using some slave labour.

  1. Whom do they accuse of doing nothing?

Ans: they allege that nothing the British public can do prompts Kate and Brian to repeat words that have, for years, been their motto. Appropriately, given the history and tradition of chocolate production in this country, there is an old Quaker saying: "It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness."

 

Questions
  1. In the first two paragraphs the writer is describing something that (s)he finds very surprising. What is it?

Ans: 1.chocolate instantly conjures association with good things.

        2. It seems grotesque to link an even more terrible practice with the chocolate which  still carries those families' names.

  1. The crop makes its way anonymously on to the world market and virtually no major cocoa buyer can be sure that its product is not tainted with slavery. Can you explain what this sentence means?

Ans: there is not other way to describe the conditions in which an unknown number of cocoa farm workers are living in cote D'lvoire, the west african country which prodeces almost half the world's cocoa beans.

  1. What are the three similarities between slavery in the past and slavery today?

Ans: Others stay because, many hundreds of miles from home with no money and often weak from hard labour and little food, they have no idea where they are and no resources to find out.

  1. Do the writers believe that slavery is limited to certain areas of the world?

Ans: no, because 90 per cent are using some slavery labour

  1. Several reasons are given for slaves not running away; can you find three?

Ans: I can only find one reason, which is that according to Kate and Brian it is clear that just as chocolate consumers can get chocolate producers to sit down and pay attention to their purchasing power, so large confectionery companies can use their purchasing power to abolish cocoa slavery.

  1. Did Kate and Brian believe the chocolate companies when they said that they knew nothing about slavery?

Ans: Yes, it can be seen based on their submissions regarding this matter. "This is not the slavery we all know and most of us imagine was abolished decades ago," Brian said. "This is a company whose annual turnover is greater than the total Gross National Product of Ivory Coast and Mali combined," said Kate.

  1. Did the president of the Malian Association of Friends agree with the idea of a boycott by western consumers?

Ans: Yes. The president of the Mali Friends Association, which is based in Ivory Coast, believes that as much as 90 percent of the cocoa plantations there employ some slave labour. He believed that the problem was complex and would not be solved by Westerners who boycotted chocolate. It will only cut the price of cocoa which is already very low, cutting off farmers' profits to pay workers.

  1. Whom do the writers accuse of neglecting their responsibilities? How is it that they have the power to push for change?

Ans: They allege that nothing the British public can do prompts, Kate and Brian are clear that just as chocolate consumers can make chocolate producers sit up and take notice with their purchasing power, so the vast confectionery companies could use their purchasing power to eradicate cocoa slavery.

  1. Rewrite this saying in your own words: "It is better to light a single candle than curse the darkness."

Ans: "it's better to try again than regret failure".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scanning:

  1. What are the names of the Cadbury families?

Ans: The great Quaker families

  1. What are the names of the two film makers?

Ans: Kate Blewett

  1. Where have they worked before?

Ans: in Cote D'Ivoire, the West African country

  1. What adjective is used to describe the film that they made?

Ans:so sad

  1. Are the slaves mainly men or women? What sort of age are they?

Ans: They discovered young men, mostly teenagers as young as 14 and 15.

 

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