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Read through the texts and answer the questions.   Coursebook p. 97, ex. 12 10 1 Where does Karim work?  Karim works at a big . 2 How does he harvest the cotton? 3 Where do they send the cotton to? 4 Where does Liu live? 5 What does she do every day? 6 Why does she have to do this job? Money matters: Complete the questions with the words from the box.   Coursebook p. 97, ex. 13 1 Where do you  get  your money from? 2 How   is your weekly budget? 3 Have you got a debit   ? 4 What do you   your money on? 5 What was your   buy? 6 What do you do with most of your   ? 11 spend much get money last card I’m Karim. I work at a big cotton plantation in Kazakhstan, the world’s ninth-largest country. I harvest 1 the cotton by hand or with a machine and then we send it to Turkey or Mexico where the cotton is turned into denim. I like my work, but I would like to earn more money. The work is really hard, so the big fashion companies should pay their workers more money. . . . . 5 . . I’m Liu. I live in Xintang in China, the “Jeans capital of the world”, and I sew 2 jeans. I work together with many women and children in a big hall. Every day I get up very early, work and go to bed early. Every workday lasts 3 16 hours. I don’t have any holidays. But I have to do this job because I have a big family and we need the money. 1  harvest: ernten 2  sew: nähen 3  last: dauern . . 10 . . . 42 Unit 8 Reading Nu zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv