I. Questions:
- Describe the sensations you get when eating your favourite (type of) chocolate!
- Which chocolate brands do you buy most?
- Who is the best specialist chocolate-maker in your town according to you?
- Are you a chocoholic?!
- Is chocolate good for you do you think?
- Would you eat less chocolate if the price rose?
II. Read about the history of cocoa in the WCF website, and then answer these questions:
- What does "theobroma" mean?
- What did the Mayans use chocolatl for?
- What is chocolate made from?
- Did the poor also enjoy drinking chocolate in France in the 17th century?
- Who founded the first "chocolate house" in London?
- What made chocolate more affordable?
- How many tons of cocoa beans are consumed annually in the world today?
III. Read about the cocoa value chain in the WCF website and then answer these questions:
- What are the different steps in the chain?
- What words are new to you (list them and define them using the glossary on the web site)?
IV. Research the problems facing cocoa producers, then answer these questions:
- How many countries produce cocoa?
- How many people are involved in cocoa production?
- In which country are many farmers involved in cocoa production?
- Which country produces nearly 35% of the world's cocoa beans?
- In which country is child slave labour widely used in cocoa production?
V. Read the Guardian article on child labour, then answer these questions:
- What is being done by the chocolate companies to stop children being exploited?
- What are producers themselves doing to improve working conditions?
- What, according to Ms Borger, "lies at the heart of the issue"?
- What could YOU do to help solve the problem?
