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vrijdag 17 november 2017

Living in Paradise

Millions of leaked documents called the Paradise Papers were recently released. The Netherlands play an important role in them. Do we live in paradise?

Read the following words and phrases and their definitions.
  • fancy features - special and often expensive parts
  • to cover the costs - to make enough money to pay for the costs
  • profit - money that is made in a business, like a shop
  • tax - money that people and businesses have to pay to the government and that is used to pay for the things done by the government
  • roughly 30 cents - not exactly, but more or less 30 cents
  • purchase price - amount of money someone pays for something
  • to leak - to give secret information to someone so that it becomes known to the public
First read the assignment. Next watch the video. Take notes to help you do the assignment.

  1. How much money does Nike make from selling the pair of shoes in the video?
  2. Why does most of the money Nike makes go straight to their company in the Netherlands?
  3. Is it legal what Nike is doing?
  4. What do other people think about the way Nike does business?
  5. For which people are the Netherlands paradise?
Extra words assignment
Explain what the underlined words and expressions mean.
1. The girl buying the shoes says: “Hold on, is that how much they cost?”
2. Nike is far from the only company contained in them.