Ghana produces a lot of cacao. It’s made into chocolate. Many cacao farm workers are very poor because cacao is sold at a low price. They work hard, but they can’t make enough money to live. They work under “unfair” conditions. Moreover, many children in Ghana have to work on farms to help their families. That is why some of them have never been to school.

Fair-trade can solve these problems. If you buy fair-trade chocolate, more money goes to the workers, so your shopping choices can make a difference.

Ghana produces a lot of cacao. It’s made __________ chocolate. Many cacao farm workers are very poor because cacao is __________ at a low price. They work hard, but they can’t make enough money __________ live. Thay work under “unfair” conditions. Moreover, many children in Ghana have to work on farms to __________ their families. That is why some of them have __________ to school.
Fair-trade can solve these problems. If you buy fair-trade chocolate, more money goes to the workers, so your shopping choices can make a difference.

My father doesn’t know much about music. Every time I perform on stage, my mother gets excited, but my father remains calm. My father and I rarely talk about the piano. However, we love eating and talking about sushi when we go out to sushi bars.

When I was seven, I won the first prize in a contest. My mother was very happy, but my father warned me: “There’s always someone better than you.” He told me, “There’s more to life than just playing the piano. You have to study more in school.”

I felt rebellious toward my father when I was in junior high school. Whenever he told me to study harder, I’d say, “Stop bugging me! I know what I am doing!”

When I was 17, after the Chopin Competition, some of my friends came together to talk about planning my future. At that meeting, my father said, “All I want is for my son to stand on his own two feet and have all the sushi he wants. That’s all I ask.”

IN a field one summer’s day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart’s content. An Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to the nest. “Why no come and chat with me,” said the Grasshopper, “instead of toiling and moiling in that way?” “I’m helping to lay up food for the winter,” said the Ant, “and recommend you to do the same.” “Why bother about winter?” said the Grasshopper; “we have got plenty of food at present.” But the Ant went on its way and continued its toil. When the winter came the Grasshopper had no food, and found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the ants distributing everyday corn and grain from the stores they had collected in the summer. Then the Grasshopper knew: “IT IS BEST TO PREPARE FOR THE DAYS OF NECESSITY.”

A DOG, used to eating eggs, saw an Oyster and, opening his mouth to its widest extent, swallowed it down with the utmost relish, supposing it to be an egg. Soon afterwards suffering great pain in his stomach, he said, “I deserve all this torment, for my folly in thinking that everything round must be an egg.” They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger.

It happened that a Dog had got a piece of meat and was carrying it home in his mouth to eat it in peace. Now on his way home he had to cross a plank lying across a running brook. As he crossed, he looked down and saw his own shadow reflected in the water beneath. Thinking it was another dog with another piece of meat, he made up his mind to have that also. So he made a snap at the shadow in the water, but as he opened his mouth the piece of meat fell out, dropped into the water and was never seen more. Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

A CROW in great want of food saw a Serpent asleep in a sunny nook, and flying down, greedily seized him. The Serpent, turning about, bit the Crow with a mortal wound. In the agony of death, the bird exclaimed: “O unhappy me! who have found in that which I deemed a happy windfall the source of my destruction.”