Lesson Plan Topic:Employment and unemployment rates Lesson Plan IGCSE Economics- ‘MS word doc.’ Lesson Objective: are shared with the students for awareness and expectation of lesson outcome. At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to; Define employment, unemployment and full employment. Describe the nature and causes of the of changing patterns and level of employment - for example increase in proportion of workers employed in the tertiary sector and formal economy as an economy develops; a greater proportion of women in the labour force due to changes in social attitudes; decline in the proportion employed in the public sector as a country moves towards a market economy. How unemployment is measured – claimant count and labour force survey – and the formula for the unemployment rate. Causes/types of unemployment - Frictional, structural and cyclical unemployment. Consequences of unemployment - The consequences of unemployment for the individual, firms and the economy as a whole. Identify and explain - the range of policies available to reduce unemployment and how effective they might be. NB: You can add your school’s name, and logo on top, you own name, date, and class year, term and week. Also, you can rejig it for more than a lesson topic by editing the objectives, Plenary and lesson starter etc.

Lesson Plan Topic: Economic Growth Lesson Plan. IGCSE Economics- ‘MS word doc.’ Lesson Objective: are shared with the students for awareness and expectation of lesson outcome. At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to; define economic growth. Measurement of economic growth. Causes and consequences of recession. Causes of economic growth. Consequences of economic growth. Policies to promote economic growth NB: You can add your school’s name, and logo on top, you own name, date, and class year, term and week. Also, you can rejig it for more than a lesson topic by editing the objectives, Plenary and lesson starter etc.

Lesson Plan Topic: Firms and Classification of Firms Lesson Plan IGCSE Economics- ‘MS word doc.’ Lesson Objective: are shared with the students for awareness and expectation of lesson outcome. At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to; Classify firms - In terms of primary/secondary/tertiary sectors and private/public sector, and the relative size of firms. Note: detailed knowledge of different types of structure of a firm is not required. Small firms - The advantages and disadvantages of small firms, the challenges facing small firms and reasons for their existence. Causes and forms of the growth of firms - Internal growth, for example increased market share. External growth, for example mergers. Mergers - Examples, advantages and disadvantages of different types of mergers: horizontal, vertical, and conglomerate. Economies and diseconomies of scale - How internal and external economies and diseconomies of scale can affect a firm/industry as the scale of production changes. NB: You can add your school’s name, and logo on top, you own name, date, and class year, term and week. Also, you can rejig it for more than a lesson topic by editing the objectives, Plenary and lesson starter etc.

Topic: Micro and Macroeconomics The Role of Markets Resources Allocation Lesson Plan IGCSE Economics- ‘MS word doc.’ Lesson Objective: are shared with the students for awareness and expectation of lesson outcome. At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to; Describe microeconomics and macroeconomics - The difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics and the decision makers involved in each. The market system - How a market system works; including buyers, sellers, allocation of scarce resources, market equilibrium, and market disequilibrium. Key resources allocation decisions - Establishing that the economic problem creates three key questions about determining resource allocation. – What to produce, how, and for whom. - Introduction to the price mechanism - How the price mechanism provides answers to these key allocation questions. NB: You can add your school’s name, and logo on top, you own name, date, and class year, term and week. Also, you can rejig it for more than a lesson topic by editing the objectives, Plenary and lesson starter etc.

Lesson Plan Topic: International specialisation Lesson Plan IGCSE Economics- ‘MS word doc.’ Lesson Objective: are shared with the students for awareness and expectation of lesson outcome. At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to; Specialisation at a national level - The basis for Specialisation at national level in broad terms of: superior resource allocation and/or cheaper production methods. Advantages and disadvantages of specialization at a national level - For consumers, firms and the economy. NB: You can add your school’s name, and logo on top, you own name, date, and class year, term and week. Also, you can rejig it for more than a lesson topic by editing the objectives, Plenary and lesson starter etc.

Topic:Microeconomic Decision Makers - Households Lesson Plan IGCSE Economics- ‘MS word doc.’ Lesson Objective: are shared with the students for awareness and expectation of lesson outcome. At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to; Describe the influences on spending, saving and borrowing Including income, the rate of interest and confidence – between different households and over time. NB: You can add your school’s name, and logo on top, you own name, date, and class year, term and week. Also, you can rejig it for more than a lesson topic by editing the objectives, Plenary and lesson starter etc.

Topic: Price Determination Lesson Plan IGCSE Economics- ‘MS word doc.’ Lesson Objective: are shared with the students for awareness and expectation of lesson outcome. At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to; Define market equilibrium, draw and interpret demand and supply schedules and curves used to establish equilibrium price and sales in a market. Define market disequilibrium - draw and interpret demand and supply schedules and curves used to identify disequilibrium prices and shortages (demand exceeding supply) and surpluses (supply exceeding demand). NB: You can add your school’s name, and logo on top, you own name, date, and class year, term and week. Also, you can rejig it for more than a lesson topic by editing the objectives, Plenary and lesson starter etc.

Topic: Price Changes Lesson Plan IGCSE Economics- ‘MS word doc.’ Lesson Objective: are shared with the students for awareness and expectation of lesson outcome. At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to; Describe competitive markets. Identify and explain causes of price changes. Changing market conditions as causes of price changes. Identify and explain consequences of price changes - Demand and supply diagrams to be used to illustrate these changes in market conditions and their consequences for equilibrium price and sales. NB: You can add your school’s name, and logo on top, you own name, date, and class year, term and week. Also, you can rejig it for more than a lesson topic by editing the objectives, Plenary and lesson starter etc.

Lesson Plan Topic: Public Limited Companies Lesson Plan ‘MS word doc.’ IGCSE Business Studies & Economics. Lesson Objective: are shared with the students for awareness and expectation of lesson outcome. At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to; Identify a Public limited companies, its main features, advantages and disadvantages. •• Concepts of risk, ownership and limited liability •• Recommend and justify a Public limited companies to owners/management in a given situation. NB: Add your school’s name, and logo on top, your name, date, and class year, term and week, etc.

Current account of balance of payments Part 1 Economics Work Sheet IGCSE Economics 0455 syllabus for 2020, 2021 and 2022. Content: 6.4 Current account of balance of payments The components of the current account of the balance of payments. Calculation of deficits and surpluses on the current account of the balance of payments and its component sections.

Lesson Plan Topic: Business and the international economy- ‘MS word doc.’ Lesson Objective: are shared with the students for awareness and expectation of lesson outcome. At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to; The importance of Globalisation: •• The concept of Globalisation and the reasons for it. •• Opportunities and threats of Globalisation for businesses. •• Why governments might introduce import tariffs and import quotas. Reasons for the importance and growth of multinational companies (MNCs): •• Benefits to a business of becoming a multinational and the impact on its stakeholders. •• Potential benefits to a country and/or economy where a MNC is located, e.g. jobs, exports, increased choice, investment •• Potential drawbacks to a country and/or economy where a MNC is located, e.g. reduced sales of local businesses, repatriation of profits The impact of exchange rate changes: •• Depreciation and appreciation of an exchange Rate •• How exchange rate changes can affect businesses as importers and exporters of products, e.g. prices, competitiveness, profitability (exchange rate calculations will not be assessed) NB: You can add your school name, and logo on top, you own name, date, and class year, term and week. Also, you can rejig it for more than a lesson by adjusting up the objectives, Plenary and lesson starter etc.

Lesson Plan Topic:Current account of balance of payments Lesson Plan IGCSE Economics- ‘MS word doc.’ Lesson Objective: are shared with the students for awareness and expectation of lesson outcome. At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to; Describe the structure - The components of the current account of the balance of payments – trade in goods, trade in services, primary income and secondary income. Calculation of deficits and surpluses on the current account of the balance of payments and its component sections. Reasons for deficits and surpluses. Causes of current account deficit and surplus. Consequences of current account deficit and surplus - Impact on GDP, employment, inflation and foreign exchange rate. Policies to achieve balance of payments stability - The range of policies available to achieve balance of payments stability and how effective they might be. NB: You can add your school name, and logo on top, you own name, date, and class year, term and week. Also, you can rejig it for more than a lesson topic by editing the objectives, Plenary and lesson starter etc.

Lesson Plan Topic: Supply-side policy Supply-side policy Lesson Plan IGCSE Economics- ‘MS word doc.’ Lesson Objective: are shared with the students for awareness and expectation of lesson outcome. At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to; Define supply-side policy. describe supply-side policy measures and. effects of supply-side policy measures on government macroeconomic aims NB: You can add your school name, and logo on top, you own name, date, and class year, term and week. Also, you can rejig it for more than a lesson topic by editing the objectives, Plenary and lesson starter etc.

Lesson Plan Topic: Role of government and the Macroeconomic aims Lesson Plan IGCSE Economics- ‘MS word doc.’ Lesson Objective: are shared with the students for awareness and expectation of lesson outcome. At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to; Identify and explain the macroeconomic aims of government. Possible conflicts between macroeconomic aims. NB: You can add your school name, and logo on top, you own name, date, and class year, term and week. Also, you can rejig it for more than a lesson topic by editing the objectives, Plenary and lesson starter etc.

Lesson Plan Topic:The Nature of the Economic Problem and Factors of Production Lesson Plan IGCSE Economics - ‘MS word doc.’ Lesson Objective: are shared with the students for awareness and expectation of lesson outcome. At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to; Describe finite resources and unlimited wants - Definition and examples of the economic problem in the contexts of: consumers; workers; producers; and governments. Economic and free goods. The difference between economic goods and free goods. Definitions of the factors of production and their rewards - Definitions and examples of land, labour, capital and enterprise. Examples of the nature of each factor of production. Mobility of the factors of production - The influences on the mobility of the various factors. Quantity and quality of the factors of production - The causes of changes in the quantity and quality of the various factors. NB: You can add your school name, and logo on top, you own name, date, and class year, term and week. Also, you can rejig it for more than a lesson topic by editing the objectives, Plenary and lesson starter etc.

Topic: Differences in economic development between countries Lesson Plan IGCSE Economics- ‘MS word doc.’ Lesson Objective: are shared with the students for awareness and expectation of lesson outcome. At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to; describe economic development, explain the differences in economic development between countries - Causes and impacts of differences in income; productivity; population growth; size of primary, secondary and tertiary sectors; saving and investment; education; and healthcare. NB: You can add your school’s name, and logo on top, you own name, date, and class year, term and week. Also, you can rejig it for more than a lesson topic by editing the objectives, Plenary and lesson starter etc.

Lesson Plan Topic:Inflation and deflation Lesson Plan IGCSE Economics- ‘MS word doc.’ Lesson Objective: are shared with the students for awareness and expectation of lesson outcome. At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to; Define inflation and deflation. Measurement of inflation and deflation using the Consumer Prices Index (CPI). Causes of inflation and deflation - Causes of inflation: demand-pull and cost-push. Causes of deflation: demand-side and supply-side. Consequences of inflation and deflation - The consequences of inflation and deflation for consumers, workers, savers, lenders, firms and the economy as a whole. Policies to control inflation and deflation. The range of policies available to control inflation and deflation and how effective they might be. NB: You can add your school’s name, and logo on top, you own name, date, and class year, term and week. Also, you can rejig it for more than a lesson topic by editing the objectives, Plenary and lesson starter etc.

Lesson Plan Topic:Population Lesson Plan IGCSE Economics- ‘MS word doc.’ Lesson Objective: are shared with the students for awareness and expectation of lesson outcome. At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to; Describe the factors that affect population growth. Reasons for different rates of population growth in different countries. The effects of changes in the size and structure of population on different countries. NB: You can add your school name, and logo on top, you own name, date, and class year, term and week. Also, you can rejig it for more than a lesson topic by editing the objectives, Plenary and lesson starter etc.

Lesson Plan Topic: Poverty Lesson Plan IGCSE Economics- ‘MS word doc.’ Lesson Objective: are shared with the students for awareness and expectation of lesson outcome. At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to; Define poverty, and absolute and relative poverty; Give the difference between the two terms. The causes of poverty; The causes of poverty including unemployment, low wages, illness and age. Policies to alleviate poverty and redistribute income; Policies including those promoting economic growth, improved education, more generous state benefits, progressive taxation, and national minimum wage. NB: You can add your school name, and logo on top, you own name, date, and class year, term and week. Also, you can rejig it for more than a lesson topic by editing the objectives, Plenary and lesson starter etc.

Lesson Plan Topic: Demand Lesson Plan IGCSE Economics- ‘MS word doc.’ Lesson Objective: are shared with the students for awareness and expectation of lesson outcome. At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to; Define demand draw and interpret appropriate diagrams. Price and demand - A demand curve to be drawn and used to illustrate movements along a demand curve with appropriate terminology, for example extensions and contractions in demand. Individual and market demand - The link between individual and market demand in terms of aggregation. Conditions of demand - The causes of shifts in a demand curve with appropriate terminology, for example increase and decrease in demand. NB: You can add your school’s name, and logo on top, you own name, date, and class year, term and week. Also, you can rejig it for more than a lesson topic by editing the objectives, Plenary and lesson starter etc.