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Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School Secondary 4 Normal Academic Social Studies PRELIM 2024 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Section A – Source Based Case Study 1 Study Source A. What can you learn from this source about cocoa production in Ghana? Explain your answer. Type of Question: Inference I can learn from this source that cocoa production in Ghana is exploitative / harmful for Ghana. (A) Source A shows a young African child carrying a big bag of cocoa beans labelled ‘Nestle’, a multinational corporation, saying “I want to go to school. I don’t like chocolate” while a child from another country says “I want chocolate! I don’t like school!” . (E) This means that to meet the demand for chocolate from other nations, multinational corporations utilise child labour, causing children who want to study to be unable to get a proper education, making it difficult for them to get higher -skilled or bet ter- paying jobs in the future. (E) ● Answer the question ● Evidence ● Explanation 2 2 Study Source B. Why was this source produced? Explain your answer. Type of Question: Inference Purpose This source was produced because it wants to convince (P) the international community (A) that multinational corporations like Cargill were working for the good of Ghana . (M) so that the internation community feels reassured (F) that MNCs can be trusted and continue to support Cargill’s chocolate business. (A) This is because at that time, MNCs were facing criticism from Ghanaian farmers and advocacy groups that the price of cocoa was too low and that MNCs were depriving children from education (S) Source B states “Cargill’s $13 million investment to expand the cocoa processing site in Ghana will create many jobs, from labourers to university-educated positions” and that “we are committed to economic growth, building sustainable local businesses and diversifying sources of income”. (Evidence) This means that by multinational corporations like Cargill were helping the people in Ghana by increasing employment which would mean more income and types of jobs available. (Explanation). Must present answer as REASON (PAR). ● Powerful Verb ● Audience ● Message of source ● Feeling

2 ● Action (to be taken by audience) ● Situation ● Evidence ● Explanation 3 Study Source C. How useful is this source as evidence about multinational corporations in Ghana? Explain your answer. [7] Answers must be about multinational corporations in Ghana. Please remember that for USEFUL question, YOU MUST MENTION RELIABILITY IN YOUR ANSWER!!!!!! Useful based on cross -referencing Source C is useful because it is reliable (A) as evidence that multinational corporations in Ghana are not doing enough to help farmers as it is supported by Source E (LOR). Both Sources C and E suggests that multinational corporations in Ghana are not doing enough to help farmers (CC). Source C states “a key reason for th e low incomes of cocoa farmers in Ghana is the low prices they receive for their produce” and that “farmers have organized themselves into unions to negotiate better prices for their produce. Despite these efforts, many farmers continue to struggle to make a decent living.” This means that multinational corporations are underpaying the farmers in Ghana and not passing on the benefits of international trade in chocolate. Source C is supported by Source E which tells me that multinational corporations in Ghana are not doing enough to help farmers. Source E states “farmers and workers spoke about the unsustainably low prices companies pay for cocoa and companies’ failure to pay the government -mandated price increase designed to ● Answer the question ● Line of Reasoning (LOR) ● Common criteria ● Comparative word ● Evidence

3 ensure farmers receive a higher p rice for cocoa they sold”. This means that multinational corporations are not cooperating with the Ghanaian government to ensure that farmers are paid a proper wage for their work. Not Useful based on cross-referencing Source C is less useful because it is unreliable (A) as evidence that multinational corporations in Ghana are not doing enough to help farmers as it is refuted by Source D (LOR). Sources C suggests that multinational corporations in Ghana are not doing enough to help farmers BUT source D sug gests that multinational corporations in Ghana are doing enough to help farmers (CC). Source C states “a key reason for the low incomes of cocoa farmers in Ghana is the low prices they receive for their produce” and that “farmers have organized themselves into unions to negotiate better prices for their produce. Despite these efforts, many farmers continue to struggle to make a decent living.” This means that multinational corporations are underpaying the farmers in Ghana and not passing on the benefits of international trade in chocolate. Source C states “a key reason for the low incomes of cocoa farmers in Ghana is the low prices they receive for their produce” and that “farmers have organized themselves into unions to negotiate better prices for their produce. Despite these efforts, many farmers continue to struggle to make a decent livi ng.” This means that multinational corporations are underpaying the farmers in Ghana and not passing on the benefits of international trade in chocolate. ● Explanation Evaluating usefulness of source through analysis of its origins/ purpose Source C is not useful (A) source as evidence about multinational corporations in Ghana as it is unreliable in terms of purpose (LOR). Source C was written by an online activist (WHO) and only focuses on how multinational corporations have been underpaying farmers in Ghana. Source C wants to convince online readers that the top chocolate multinational corporations are causing Ghanaian farmers to live in poverty and have not been listening to these farmers so that online readers will pressure these corporations to increase the pay of Ghanaian farmers (WHY). Thus, the source is one-sided and biased against multinational corporations in order to achieve its objectives , making it unreliable and hence not useful (Explain) ● Answer the question ● Line of reasoning (LOR) ● Who ● What ● When ● Why

4 ● Explanation of why is it useful / less useful 4 Study Sources D and E. Type of Question:

5 Having read Source D, are you surprised by Source E? Explain your answer. [7] Hybrid Surprise Main Source is Source E! Surprised/ Not surprised based on content comparison Having read Source D, I am surprised by Source E (A) as they are different in terms of whether multinational corporations have helped to improve the lives of the people of Ghana (LOR). Source D tells me that multinational corporations have helped to improve the lives of the people of Ghana but Source E tells me that they have not helped (CC). Source D states “I know a lot of people who benefited from the Cocoa Marketing Company (CMC) scholarship. And the CMC scholarships come from these multinationals”. Thi s means that multinational corporations have helped people in Ghana to get higher education and have provided education opportunities to those who may not be able to afford it. Source E states “ Despite promises by many of the largest chocolate companies ov er two decades ago to clean up the sector, little has changed.” This means that multinational corporations do not care about the education of children in Ghana as they were more interested in profit. (EE) OR Having read Source D, I am not surprised by So urce E (LOR) as they are both similar in telling me that Ghanaian farmers were reliant on multinational corporati