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FORCED CHILD LABOR

Le travail forc, ici dans une fabrique de briques au Pakistan, est dpeint dans ses
aspects typiques, avec des enfants privs dducation, des travailleurs battus et maintenus dans leur statut desclave par des patrons qui les manipulent en prtextant des
dettes quils ne peuvent rembourser.

Transcript
CNN correspondent Reza Sayah: Every morning, 17-year-old Naser wakes up to make bricks. Hes never
been in school, never had a childhood because hes never had a choice. If he refuses to obey his boss here,
Naser says, he pays a price: He beats me up if the work doesnt get done, said Naser. Naser is among
hundreds of thousands of so-called bonded child labourers in Pakistans brick kilns: workers trapped by
family debts often impossible to pay off. Human rights groups call them modern-day slaves. On our visit to
this kiln outside of Lahore1, we spoke to some of the labourers while the owner was away.
Reporter: Does your owner beat you if you dont work, if you dont listen to him?
Translator: They all said yes. They all said yes. The owner beats them.
CNN correspondent Reza Sayah: We contacted the owner and he said he is not doing anything illegal. He
did say he has been giving families loans and that he expects them to work off the debt. Human rights
groups say kiln owners often dupe the poor by giving them loans and then tacking on high interest in living
expenses, on salaries of less than $5 a day.
CNN correspondent Reza Sayah on camera: OK were outside of Lahore. Theres a lot of human rights
groups in Pakistan who are doing a lot of work to emancipate bonded labourers and were going to go see
one of the success stories in this house. These are three people who used to be bonded labourers at a brick
kiln and this is one of them: Rifat. She used to work in a brick kiln right outside of Islamabad, and behind
her is her sister Masuda and theyve been emancipated by the group the Bonded Labour Liberation Front.
Muhammad Mansha is a remarkable story because he was duped into selling his kidney. Somebody said
You sell your kidney and well free you from this brick kiln. And if we can show the scar here. Mohamed,
if, yeah. So he sold his kidney in order to be free but he was lied to.

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Lahore is the second largest city in Pakistan.

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Objectifs et dmarche pdagogique

Liens avec les programmes et niveaux viss
Seconde : la socit au quotidien, le travail.
Premire : les relations de pouvoir, la contrainte, la manipulation.
CECRL : Peut comprendre les points principaux des programmes tlviss sur des sujets familiers si la
langue est assez clairement articule. couter, B1
CECRL : Peut aborder sans prparation une conversation sur un sujet familier, exprimer des opinions
personnelles. Parler, interaction orale gnrale, B1
Contenu grammatical
La rupture pass / prsent : three people who used to be bonded labourers; she used to work in a brick kiln.
Le present perfect : Hes never been in school, never had a childhood; hes never had a choice; he has been
giving families loans; theyve been emancipated by the group.
Lexique
Le travail forc : make bricks; beat sb up; bonded child labourer; brick kilns; trapped by family debts; pay off
debts; modern-day slaves; owner; give families loans; work off the debt; tack on high interest in living expenses;
emancipate bonded labourers; be duped into doing; free; be lied to.

Dmarche possible
A. Overall comprehension
Visionner une fois puis laisser les lves rpondre aux questions de cette partie.
B. Detailed comprehension
Laisser les lves lire les questions de cette partie puis visionner trois fois en entier avec des pauses.
C. Talking : role-play
Activit proposer aprs la correction de la comprhension. Laisser aux lves 10 15 minutes pour prendre
quelques notes rapides sur leurs arguments aprs avoir choisi leur rle. Puis les laisser confronter leurs
arguments ensemble une dizaine de minutes. Enfin, ils pourront prsenter leur jeu de rles devant la classe.
Voici une grille dvaluation de linteraction orale de niveau B1 pour cette activit :
Interaction orale, conversation : Niveau B1
Interaction : Je peux lancer, poursuivre et clore une conversation simple en face
face sur des sujets familiers et personnels.
Je peux soutenir une conversation ou une discussion mais ai quelques difficults
formuler exactement ce que jaimerais dire. Je peux exprimer des sentiments.

1 2 3 4 5

Aisance et phonologie : Je peux parler de manire comprhensible malgr des

pauses pour chercher mes mots et me corriger lorsque je parle assez longtemps.
Ma prononciation est clairement intelligible malgr un accent tranger quelquefois
perceptible et quelques erreurs de prononciation.

1 2 3 4 5

Argumentation : Je peux donner raisons et explications relatives des opinions.

1 2 3 4 5

Matrise du vocabulaire et correction grammaticale :

Je matrise bien le vocabulaire lmentaire mais je fais encore des erreurs srieuses
quand je veux exprimer une pense plus complexe.
Je peux me servir, de manire suffisamment correcte, dexpressions frquemment
utilises et associes des situations plutt prvisibles.

1 2 3 4 5

Validation de B1 12/20 (c'est--dire 3/5)

B1 est valid non valid

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Complments
Liens avec des sites internet
Le site de lorganisation (International Labour Organization) permet daccder leur campagne contre le travail
forc, SAPFL (Special Action programme to Combat Forced Labour) : www.ilo.org.

Corrig des activits

A. Overall comprehension
1. The report takes place in...

India

Vietnam

; Pakistan

Iran

2. The report deals with:

; The working conditions of forced labourers.
The working conditions of workers in the country.
The living conditions of poor people in the country.

B. Detailed comprehension
1. Who is Naser?
a) Age
: 17
b) School
: Hes never been in school.
c) Work
: He makes bricks / works in a brick kiln.
d) Working conditions: His boss beats him up if the work doesnt get done or if he refuses to obey him.
e) Salary
: $5 a day
2. What are people like Naser called? Quote two names.
Bonded labourers, modern-day slaves.
It means they have no family ; are not free have no qualifications work on a farm.
3. Why? Tick the correct box.
a) The owner gave them a loan and then he wanted them to pay off their debts.
b) They just had to work for the owner for a few weeks to pay off their debts.
c) The owner was honest and wanted to help them when he gave them a loan.
d) Human rights organizations try to help them to leave their work.
4. What do the following words mean?
; free
emancipate:
help
kidney:
clothes
a child

; Right
Right
Right
; Right

Wrong
; Wrong
; Wrong
Wrong

educate
; a body organ

5. Give information about the family the journalist visits.

a) Rifat and Masuda: They used to work in a brick kiln and they were emancipated by a human rights
group.
b) Muhammad: He was duped into selling his kidney. / He sold his kidney to be free.

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Forced child labour

Nom :

Classe :

Date :

A. Overall comprehension
1. The report takes place in...

India

Vietnam

Pakistan

Iran

2. The report deals with:

The working conditions of forced labourers.
The working conditions of workers in the country.
The living conditions of poor people in the country.
B. Detailed comprehension
1. Who is Naser?
a) Age
: ............................
b) School
: ...............................................................................................................................................
c) Work
: ...............................................................................................................................................
d) Working conditions: ...................................................................................................................................
...............................................................................................................................................
e) Salary
: ...............................................................................................................................................
2. What are people like Naser called? Quote two names.
..................................................................................................................................................................
It means they ... have no family are not free have no qualifications work on a farm.
3. Why? Tick the correct box.
a) The owner gave them a loan and then he wanted them to pay off their debts.
b) They just had to work for the owner for a few weeks to pay off their debts.
c) The owner was honest and wanted to help them when he gave them a loan.
d) Human rights organizations try to help them to leave their work.
4. What do the following words mean?
emancipate:
free
help
kidney:
clothes
a child

Right
Right
Right
Right

Wrong
Wrong
Wrong
Wrong

educate
a body organ

5. Give information about the family the journalist visits.

a) Rifat and Massuda: ..............................................................................................................................
..................................................................................................................................................................
b) Muhammad: ..........................................................................................................................................
.................................................................................................................................................................
C. Role-play
z Work in groups of three.
z Choose your role: an employee in a brick factory asks his boss for better working and living conditions
for his family and himself and / or for freedom. A volunteer from a human rights group helps him.
z List three arguments for your role.
z Then rehearse the conversation with your partners.
z Eventually perform the conversation in front of the class.
Lexical help
be forced to work 12 hours a day; work overtime (heures supplmentaires); earn a decent living (gagner
sa vie correctement); toil (travailler trs dur); have gruel to eat (bouillie de crales); be barely fed (tre
peine nourri); in filth (la salet); be beaten up; be educated; have no right to speak out (pas le droit
dexprimer son opinion); denounce sth; protest against sth; pay off a debt (rembourser); free sb = set sb
free (librer); make a profit, be mistreated / be well-treated; demand sth (exiger).

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