Prime Time 7/8, Writing, Arbeitsheft

35 8.2 Focus on content Reading comprehension Read the text “Everything we knew about sweatshops was wrong” carefully and answer the following questions. 1. What were the authors’ original views on sweatshops? a) They criticised them for being unsocial. b) They thought they were better than jobs in farming. a) They travelled to Ethiopia to set up their own business. d) They thought they would improve the status of workers in sweatshops. 2. How did newly hired workers cope? a) Most had two jobs, one with the companies, one as market sellers. b) Most left the company within a year. c) Most of them were still working for the same companies. d) The scheme paid off and the workers earned good money. 3. What was one of the reasons why these employees left the company? a) Risky jobs had doubled in the factories. b) Every month the risk at work rose in the factory. c) Their work involved a lot of risks for the employer. d) Their work involved a lot of risks for the employees. 4. How did the authors’ views change as a consequence of this study? a) A long-term programme for workers was bound to be successful. b) They think that people who stayed on in the companies were the real winners of the situation. c) They think there is no quick solution for the economic situation. d) They think that the longer people stayed in the factories, the safer it was. 8.3 Focus on vocabulary and style Vocabulary: Working in Ethiopia Read the text again and collect all the words that describe jobs, forms of companies or places of work. 1  2  Working in Ethiopia Jobs Forms of companies Places of work Nur z Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv