Activity 3

The Story of Chocolate

We all love to eat choclate occasionally and it can be in the form of many things including: choloalte bars, sweets, cholate easter eggs, chocolate icecream etc.
However do you know much about it!

Part (A):
Getting into pairs I would like you to research the and aswer the following questions on a recording sheets. You may research the useful links and watch the video below to assist your understanding.

1. What Countries grow cocoa beans?
2. How are the cocoa beans turned into chocoalte as we know it?
3. What factors influence difference in chocolate appearance and taste
4. Do the farmers who harvest the cocoa beans get a fair wage?
5. Do you think Chocolate companies make a lot of money?
6. Can you name five big chocolate manufacturing companies?

    6.   Do you think fair trade has had effect on the cholcoalter industry?


 Links:

• Stories on how Farmers benifit from fair trade- Focus on "Kuapa Kokoo"(Ghanian for "good cocoa farmer")
• Information about all aspect of Chocolate and its production cycle
• Information on the Countries that produce Chocolate and the global factors that influence it's taste!

Video:

 Cadburys and fair trade??

 Cadbury is a massive chocolate Company who have, as of 2009 developed a fairtrade policy to ensure that third world farmers who produce the Cocoa beans are rewarded with a fair wage. Their partnership is with farmers in Ghana which is located in Northwest Africa.

Could you answer the following questions;

     1.Why do you think  companies like Cadbury have decided to switch to fair-trade?

           2.Does this link with fair-trade bring any significant benefits / disadvantages to these companies?

     3.      How do you think this has affected the producers and their communities?

The Following website links may help:

• http://www.fairtrade.net/
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  http://www.fairtrade.ie/index.php?id=14 
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  http://cadburydairymilk.typepad.com/ 
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  http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/producers/default.aspx 

Part (B):

I would like you to wtach the below video. It shows a recent cadbury fairtrade advertisement.I want you take note of the images, the rhythm of the music and the various beats and jingles to it.I then have a task for you which follows from it:

Your task:

In groups of 4-5 I want you to create and advertisement for you own "NEW" brand of fair trade chocalate. You can use the percussion instruments in the class to create a simple jingle to accompany this, You might think of a slogan for the advertisement and also may include a piece of acting in the advertisement.