Nice activity for X factor fans.
Feature article on the X factor twins John and Edward – Meet Jedward, infuriating but irrespressible. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/x-factor/6545930/Jedward-infuriating-but-irrepressible.html
Some of the language and syle is probably a bit difficult for GCSE level – perhaps a bit of cutting and pasting and/or highlighting might be advised.
Interesting article which could be used to generate [...]
Posts by Margaret Hancock:
Nov 22 2009
Jedward
Nov 05 2009
The BBC box
The BBC News followed a shipping container for a year to tell stories of globalisation and the world economy. Excellent opportunities for discussions around global trading, packaging, growth/decline of secondary industries, impact of the recession. Lots of video reports and maps for tracking the box.
There is even a cut-out model plan for making a container [...]
Nov 05 2009
Johnnie Walker Whiskey
10-minute video of Robert Carlyle telling the history of Johnnie Walker whiskey. Very interesting and entertaining and lots of stuff in there for a class discussion or to introduce a topic eg branding, growth, enterpreneurship, product development, global trading. Because it is a case study on whiskey not appropriate for under-16 and even 16-18s you would probably [...]
Oct 29 2009
Balance sheet anagrams
Do you like anagrams? This is a balance sheet anagram puzzle. 19 terms all of which would appear on a balance sheet. Useful revision activity. Hand out the sheets as they come into the classroom, set a time limit on it and then they finish for homework.
Follow up – although I don’t think GCSE & [...]
Oct 19 2009
News item for class discussion
Union urged to cancel post strike
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8313623.stm
Royal mail has offered to approach the conciliation service Acas but only if union members call off planned strikes.
Some ideas for discussion:
1.Legislation around industrial action – strikes in particular eg
Official and unofficial strikes
Royal Mail is bringing in temporary staff to do some of the work, what can those people do [...]
Oct 09 2009
Follow that! A vocabulary game
This is a game based on a game we used to play with our three children on long car journeys in an attempt to stop them knocking the living daylights out of each other, whining for food or playing ‘let’s pair up to wind the third one up’. That game was – say the name of [...]
Oct 05 2009
Crack the code – a puzzle
Crack the code – code puzzle of twenty words in connection with the recruitment process. Probably takes about twenty minutes to half an hour. Hand them out as students come in as a settle-down activity or use as a fill-in at the end of the lesson. Finish off for homework. Follow up next lesson with discussions around the [...]
Sep 29 2009
Quick activity to help with understanding of ratio analysis
Goal scores from the three top strikers last season:
N Anelka 19
C Ronaldo 18
S Gerrard 16
The number of matches they played in were 35, 33, 30 respectively.
Who had the best goal scoring ratio?
I think the answers are:
Anelka 0.54 : 1
Ronaldo 0.55 : 1
Gerrard 0.53 : 1
Makes Ronaldo the best performer – scored a ratio of 0.55 goals per match.
Comments [...]
Sep 23 2009
News item for class discussion
Mortgage approvals up 81% in year
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8270379.stm
The number of mortgages approved by the major banks in August was up 81% from the same month a year ago when the housing market was in a slump.
Some ideas for discussions:
What is meant by a slump?
What is meant by a mortgage?
Suggest other businesses, (retail, services and manufacturing) that may benefit [...]
Sep 21 2009
10 questions on odd one out
10, mostly easy, questions in powerpoint to identify odd one out. Quick activity for beginning or end of lesson. Answers given are only suggestions – as with most issues in business studies, any answer counts if there is a well-argued business reason for it – slide 2 (answer slide 12) for example.
http://www.ebea.org.uk/downloads/OddOneOut.ppt