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42 Reading Unit 8 Read through the texts and answer the questions. Coursebook p. 97 / ex. 12 1 Where does Karim work? .DULP ZRUNV DW D ELJ « 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 JHW your money from? 2 How is your weekly budget? 3 Have you got a cash ? 4 What do you your money on? 5 What was your buy? 6 What do you do with most of your ? 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. . . 10 . . . I’m Karim, I work at a big cotton plantation in Kazakhstan, the world’s ninth largest country in the world. 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 . . 1 harvest: ernten 2 sew: nähen 3 last: dauern 10 11 spend much get money last card Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv