Discussion: Fairtrade Products
Are you a coffee person or a tea person?
Are there any benefits to drinking coffee?
Do you check where coffee is produced before you buy it?
How do you decide which coffee to buy?
Do you know what fair trade is?
What does Fairtrade mean? Type your answer in the chat box.
1. How does buying Fair Trade products help developing countries?
2. Coffee farmers earn very little money with the coffee they produce. Why is that? ( 3 reasons)
3. Fair Trade coffee makers are members of cooperatives. What are the advantages?
4. What is the most important thing about the fair trade system?
5. Fair Trade organisations also receive the fair trade premium. How can this money be used?
6. How does the environment benefit from fair trade?
7. How many fair trade products can be found in the market?
Do you or your family buy fair-trade products? Why (not)?
Are Fair Trade products more expensive? Why (not)?
Fair Trade helps poorer people but is it anti-competitive to help one group and not another?
Any other opinions?
Idioms
It’s not my cup of tea.
Ballet isn’t my cup of tea = I’m not interested in ballet.
Not for all the tea in China.
I wouldn’t go bungee-jumping for all the tea in China.
If you gave me a lot of money, I still wouldn’t go bungee-jumping.
A storm in a teacup.
They argued about it for 10 minutes. One hour later they had forgotten about it.
It was just a storm in a teacup.