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Complete the 15 gaps in the text with the correct form of the verbs in the box. MAKE (2), STAND, VOLUNTEER, ASSEMBLE, LEAVE, IMPROVE, PUBLISH, PROMPT, WORK, CELEBRATE, SELL, KILL (2), ADD Is Apple exploiting Chinese workers? Just as Apple _______________ (1) record profits last month $13.06bn in one quarter The New York Times _____________ (2) an expos of the conditions endured by the Chinese workers who ______________ (3) the 37 million iPhones and 15.4 million iPads Apple ______________ (4) in those three months. At the Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, an army of 200,000 workers puts the components together by hand, silently ____________ (5) 12-hour shifts, six days a week, ______________ (6) up. Their pay: about $17 a day. They sleep in cramped dormitories, in rows of bunk beds. Four people _____________ (7) in explosions at iPad factories, and at least 16 workers ______________ (8) themselves. It doesnt make Apple look good. Inevitably, the news ______________ (9) calls for a boycott, said Tim Worstall in Forbes.com. How, demand Apples critics, can Westerners continue to fetishise these products when they know the human cost of ____________ (10) them? But if you really want to help workers at Foxconn, you shouldnt throw away your iPhone, you should buy another one: $17 a day is good money in China. Thats why a million people _______________(11) to work at Foxconn, a company that assembles products for a slew of US firms. And theres the rub. If you dont like the sound of conditions at Foxconn, youll have to boycott almost all Chinese-made products and thats not ____________ (12) many good ones left to buy. Big factories churning out goods at high volume have never been nice places to work: if you look in the sausage factory, youre likely to feel sick. It doesnt have to be that bad, said Heather Mallick in The Star (Toronto). Apple got rich exploiting sweatshop labour: the firm has around $100bn in available cash. Why doesnt it charge a little more for its products, and spend money _____________ (13) the lives of its Chinese contractors? To get conditions at Foxconn to US standards, The New York Times estimates, ____________ (14) just $65 to the cost of an iPhone. Better still, said The Commercial Appeal (Memphis), Apple could bring those jobs home. Dream on, said Jordan Weissmann in The Atlantic (Washington). China is a global hub for electronics manufacturing, with a vast supply chain of factories making screws, glass screens and other crucial parts. And it has the expertise to oversee the work, producing 600,000 engineering graduates a year to our 70,000. For better or worse, iPhones and iPads _______________ (15) in China for many years to come. OVER TO YOU Do you think about the working conditions of the people who have made the things you buy? Are you concerned about this issue? Have you ever boycotted a product for whatever the reason?

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Is Apple exploiting Chinese workers? Foxconn workers in Shenzhen The timing was hardly propitious, said Thane Rosenbaum on TheDailyBeast.com. Just as Apple was celebrating record profits last month $13.06bn in one quarter The New York Times published an expos of the conditions endured by the Chinese workers who assembled the 37 million iPhones and 15.4 million iPads Apple sold in those three months. At the Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, an army of 200,000 workers puts the components together by hand, silently working 12-hour shifts, six days a week, standing up. Their pay: about $17 a day. They sleep in cramped dormitories, in rows of bunk beds. Four people have been killed in explosions at iPad factories, and at least 16 workers have killed themselves. It doesnt make Apple look good. Inevitably, the news has prompted calls for a boycott, said Tim Worstall in Forbes.com. How, demand Apples critics, can Westerners continue to fetishise these products when they know the human cost of making them? But if you really want to help workers at Foxconn, you shouldnt throw away your iPhone, you should buy another one: $17 a day is good money in China. Thats why a million people have volunteered to work at Foxconn, a company that assembles products for a slew of US firms. And theres the rub, said Brooke Crothers on CNET.com. If you dont like the sound of conditions at Foxconn, youll have to boycott almost all Chinese-made products and thats not going to leave many good ones left to buy. Big factories churning out goods at high volume have never been nice places to work: if you look in the sausage factory, youre likely to feel sick. It doesnt have to be that bad, said Heather Mallick in The Star (Toronto). Apple got rich exploiting sweatshop labour: the firm has around $100bn in available cash. Why doesnt it charge a little more for its products, and spend money improving the lives of its Chinese contractors? To get conditions at Foxconn to US standards, The New York Times estimates, would add just $65 to the cost of an iPhone. Better still, said The Commercial Appeal (Memphis), Apple could bring those jobs home. Dream on, said Jordan Weissmann in The Atlantic (Washington). China is a global hub for electronics manufacturing, with a vast supply chain of factories making screws, glass screens and other crucial parts. And it has the expertise to oversee the work, producing 600,000 engineering graduates a year to our 70,000. For better or worse, iPhones and iPads will be Made in China for many years to come.

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SWEATSHOPS 1) 2) 3) 4) What springs to mind when you hear the word sweatshop? What companies do you think use sweatshops? Do you think there are sweatshops in your country? Do you think companies do enough to make sure their products are not made by children in sweatshops? 5) Would you buy brand goods if you knew they were made in sweatshops? 6) What can the international community do to clamp down on sweatshops? 7) Would you talk to a sweatshop owner if you saw (s)he was using child labour? 8) Do sweatshops provide valuable employment to families who might otherwise have no income? 9) Have you seen any documentaries on TV about sweatshops? 10) If you had the power, would you shut down all of the words sweatshops?

STUDENT Bs QUESTIONS (Do not show to Student A) 1) Sweatshop workers sometimes say working in a sweatshop is better than working on the land. What would you say to them? 2) Do you think there should be a legal minimum wage in every country? 3) Would you be prepared to pay higher prices for clothes if it meant all sweatshops were closed down, or conditions and pay in them greatly improved? 4) Some economists say sweatshops are a necessary step in moving poorer countries towards being a rich country. What do you think? 5) What questions would you like to ask a sweatshop owner? 6) What do you think of the word sweatshop? Do you think its descriptive? 7) Do you think therell always be sweatshops or will they disappear in the future? 8) What do you think is the worst thing about sweatshops? 9) When did you first hear about sweatshops? What did you think? 10) Should sweatshop owners be put in prison?