Prime Time 7/8, Writing, Arbeitsheft

84 Key influence – to influence – influential interaction – to interact – interactive maturity – to mature – mature rebellion, rebel – to rebel – rebellious rejection – to reject – rejected respect – to respect – respected, respectable surge – to surge – surging Topic 8 (Key) Reading comprehension 1. d) They thought they would improve the status of workers in sweatshops. 2. b) Most left the company within a year. 3. d) Their work involved a lot of risks for the employees. 4. c) They think there is no quick solution for the economic situation. Vocabulary: Working in Ethiopia Beispielantworten Jobs: market selling, shoemaker, industrial job, construction job, hazardous job Forms of companies: drinks company, businesses, family farm Places of work: family farm, sweatshops, factories, garment factory, industrial greenhouse Prepositions in set phrases a) learn more about opposition to improvement on over time in the long run at the earliest stages to our surprise end up at the market contrary to by the end of the year exposure to lining up for compete for b) line 1 line 3 line 6 line 16 line 24 line 35 line 48 line 50 line 53 line 54 line 66 line 77 line 79 line 90 Analysing the structure of a text Beispielantworten 1. What Americans knew about sweatshops 2. The views of economic experts on sweatshops: “An escalator out of poverty” 3. Testing the experts 4. Test description 5. Results and first attempts at interpreting the situation 6. Evaluation of the results 7. One additional reason why people do not stay on in factories: health hazards 8. Explanation why people still want to work in factories 9. Conclusion Giving reasons a) 1. Since working conditions are not very good in factories in Ethiopia, about one third of the workforce leave within a year. 2. Because of these conditions they look for work elsewhere. 3. They quit their jobs out of frustration because their expectations have not been met. 4. On account of this situation many people prefer to leave. 5. Owing to these conditions it is an exaggeration to call these sweatshops “escalators out of poverty”. 6. As the study proved the experts wrong, they had better rethink their remark about sweatshops. Topic 9 (Key) Text comprehension Beispielantworten 1. A friend of hers told her about such an experiment. (line 1–30) 2. She felt much better. (line 27–28) 1  2  3  4  5  1  Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv