The illustrations show how chocolate is produced. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The image illustrates the steps by which

chocolate

is made.

Overall

, the production of

chocolate

takes 10 steps, one half of which takes place on a farm

while

the other half at a factory.

Chocolate

is made from

cocoa

beans

grown in countries like S. America, Africa and Indonesia.

At the first stage

of production, ripe

cocoa

pods containing

cocoa

beans

are harvested. Having been harvested, pods are cracked open manually with a machete to extract white

cocoa

beans

. These

beans

are

then

wrapped with large leaves to be fermented. Once fermented,

beans

are spread over a flat surface and left in the open to dry in the sun. Only after being dried are

beans

placed in large sacks of 64 kg and loaded onto a lorry or train for delivery to a factory. Upon reaching the factory,

beans

are roasted in an oven at a temperature of 350 degrees Celsius. Roasted

beans

can

then

be crushed inside a grinder where the

beans

’ outer shell is removed and the inner part is kept.

Finally

, the inner part of the

chocolate

beans

is pressed in a pressing machine to obtain liquid

chocolate

.