My reading activity for Week 5

Buying New Zealand Made?

Vocabulary: Use the text to find definitions for these words. Write your own sentences or find pictures on the internet to accompany each word.

Word	Definition	Sentence/ Picture
Confectionary	Lollies and chocolate soft drinks	Soft drinks are probably one of the most popular confectionary things
Annual	occurring once every year.	The Cadbury Factory has an annual revenue of $42billion
revenue	The amount of money that a company gets in a specific amount of time	The Cadbury Factory has an annual revenue of $42billion
Vacant	(of a place) not occupied; empty.	The vacant factory will from next year be a major reminder of what Dunedin has lost. Hundreds of years of history,
efficient	System or Machine	They look at ways of making more money and making things more efficient.
Multinational	between or among nations; involving two or more nations	Big multinational companies make decisions to improve their componies.

1. List three good things about supporting New Zealand made products.

New Zealand’s economy will raise, New Zealanders can be proud of the products made in New Zealand and it means that New Zealand doesn't lose money because we don’t have to ship it from overseas.

2. How many New Zealanders lost their job with the closing of the Dunedin Cadbury factory? About 350

3. How do you think this would affect families? The community?

The families will lose money, and the community will lose money as well

4. List three bad things about supporting New Zealand made products.They may not make enough money as the big multinational countries and that's all I can think of

5. Do you think it is wrong that big multinational companies are closing smaller factories? Why? Yes because it means that the economy will drop for the town

Choose one of the tasks below…

Using this countdown online shopping link, list at least 8 different items you can buy that are made in New Zealand (use the search button). Watties spaghetti, Cadbury chocolate, Marmite, L&P, Pineapple lumps, whittaker's chocolate, Angkor Milk, Bluebird chips