Who pays for
your jeans?
Chapter
13
A
Do you know any jeans brands? Which ones?
B
Work in groups. Discuss. What is important to you when you buy a pair of jeans?
colour
price
modern
slim
vintage wash
rips
baggy
low waist
tight
brand
1
Tick off right or wrong.
1. Alexis Bailey looks smart and often goes shopping.
2. Most clothes he buys are quite cheap.
3. Today he goes shopping alone.
4. He thinks £29.99 is cheap for a pair of jeans.
5. Alexis says he will buy two or three pairs of those jeans.
6. Alexis wants to be sure that the jeans are not made by children.
7. The shop assistant knows a lot about child labour.
8. Alexis and Nicole will start a new trend.
9. They will never buy jeans.
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Use the words in the box and retell Ashraf ’s story. (The text about child labour.)
8 years old – workshop – clothes
family – 7 a.m.–9 p.m. – cleaning – washing up – children
food – floor – no pay
3A Work in pairs. Practise the dialogues.
Dialogue 1
Dialogue 2
– Hello, Can I help you?
– Good morning. How can I help you?
• Yes, please. I’d like a pair of jeans.
• I’d like a shirt.
– Certainly. What size are you?
– What size? Small, medium, large?
• 28-30.
• Medium.
– And what colour would you like?
– And what colour?
• Black, please.
• White, please.
– Would you like to try them on?
– Would you like to try it on?
• Yes, please. How much are they?
• No, thanks. How much is it?
– £69.99
– It’s £35.99.
3B Work in pairs. Change the words in italics and make up your own dialogues.
4A Fill in the missing word.
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This is a pair jeans.
4B Write what you find in the picture. Choose from the words in the box.
raspberry
jam
bag
bottle
box
cup
glass
jar
packet
pair
tin
organic
tomatoes
4C Work in pairs. Use the words in exercise 4B and tell each other what you can find on a breakfast table.
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Listen to the report and mark the correct answers.
1. A ‘child’ in the report means somebody who is under
15.
18.
healthy.
indoors.
2. The work is often
13.
heavy.
3. How old are the children in Peru who make bricks?
10
15
18
4. Why did 11-year-old Chikondi take care of the family when her
parents died?
She had left school. She was the eldest.
She was a good cook.
5. What are the children on the city dump in Cambodia looking for?
food
money
things to use or sell
6. Meles from Ethiopia started working at the age of
seven.
nine.
ten.
7. The situation today is better than fifteen years ago. How many children were at work back then?
190 million
206 million
6
Use your answers from exercise 5 and write a short
summary of the UNICEF report on child labour.
Write a letter to a newspaper, magazine or a blog and give
your opinion about child labour.
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246 million