STUDENT A's QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student B.)
(1) | What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘sweatshop’? |
(2) | What companies do you think use sweatshops? |
(3) | Do you think there are sweatshops in your country? |
(4) | 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 word’s sweatshops? |
STUDENT B's QUESTIONS (Do not show these 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 it’s descriptive? |
(7) | Do you think there’ll 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? |