This lesson involves use of the student handbook. Students fill in a table to compare deserts around the world , using authentic text. This lesson is designed for independent study and can be left as a cover lesson if necessary .

This lesson introduces an assessment , a piece of work where students design a humorous leaflet to help people to survive in the desert. A number of powerpoints and sections of text in the handbook plus their notes from the Ray Mears video are used to put together the leaflet . Pictures from the horrible Geography book Desperate Deserts are used to help to convey humour. Students love completing these leaflets/booklets and they assimilate great understanding of the way that the desert impacts on humans.

This lessons uses an English language video but you can add French sub titles to it . It is a brilliant overview of how to survive in the desert . There are powerpoint summaries in French to conclude the lesson. Students make notes on how to survive which will help in subsequent lessons .

This lesson looks at rainfall processes, anticyclones and the working of the Hadley cell. It looks at the difference between day and night in the desert. It uses video clips, powerpoint , rainfall cards and climate graphs to convey concepts. The concluding exercise looking at the difference between day and night enables the student to assimilate many of the concepts studied previously. This lesson exemplifies the notion of high level conceptual input with lower level language needs which enable the student to access the thinking .

This lesson uses a combination of video clips, listening cards and a powerpoint to work out how deserts form .

This lesson starts with the students drawing what they think a stereotypical desert is . It end with a comparison of their drawing with what they have learnt in the lesson. There are extracts from authentic text plus video clips with sub titles and listening cards.

This unit was part of a Year 8 year long course with lessons taught for an hour a week. It was the first unit of the year and followed on from the Tropical rainforest unit of Year 7 . This was a good follow on because the tropical rainforest unit contains links to climate and adapatation and so the students were familiar with some concepts and vocabulary . The unit consists of many interactive activities, video clips and two very motivating assessments , one where students produce a humourous leaflet about desert survival and the other where they design an imaginary desert animal to survive in a desert environment. Students are challenged by many thinking skills . There are exemplars of student work .

This lesson lloks in detail at the processes leading to the production of green algae. It also uses the Meatrix video which looks at the issues of intensive meat production . There is a script alongside the Meatrix video and a group activity to link cause and effect . There are examples of student work .

Students explore processes which lead to environmental concerns such as nitrate and phosphate pollution and concentration of pesticides within foood chains . There are interactive activities and video clips to explore these with . One of the videos is embedded and the other has a link available to the le point webpage show in a photo of the page .

There is a powerpoint where students spot the differences between post war and today’s agriculture . Students then explore reasons for these differences using a card sort activity.

This unit is linked to other units on primary , secondary and tertiary industry plus case studies of the car industry, tourism and retailing .This unit uses agriculture as a case study looking at current issues in agriculture. It uses Britanny in France as a location charting changes in the intensification of agriculture that have happened since 1940. There is a case study on the green algae that has impacted on Britanny’s beaches and its causes and effects are identified. There is an assessment where students have to write letters for and against intensif farming . There are video clips and interactive activities to brng the unit to life . There is a student handbook, although a few pages on the topic of agricuture appear blank. This is because the images were orginally stuck in before copying. These missing images are included in the lesson resources as picture files. There are are pieces of exemplar student work .

Students use all the arguments they have amassed over the last few lessons and they take part in a role play debate . Details of the debate roles are in the handbook.

This lesson looks at the lead up to the decision to leave the EU and looks at the possible implications of Brexit

The lesson uses video clips and support materials in the handbook to look at the issue of migration into the EU

This lesson takes the students through many arguments for and against the EU. It uses video clips and powerpoints also to model the language that can be used . There are writing frames to help the students construct writing about agruments for and against .

This lesson involves matching pictures to text to discover the implications for daily life in the EU. The task is in the student handbook.

Students use the outline in the handbook and cut and stick the events that have occured throughout the history of the EU. They use the dates on the written bubbles and rectangles to work out where they go , then they get the gist of the events.

This lesson can take one or two lessons depending how many elements you build into it . The handbook contains listening cards within it which accompany the videos and also have copies of the different country details . There is a main powerpoint which has clips within it which take you through the reasons for its formation. There is cute clip of babies wearing nappies . Students identify the countries of the EU by noting the different flags on the babies nappies !!.

The unit on Europe and the European Union was used as the second unit in a Year 8 course which followed a Year 7 course with Mapwork and Tropical Rain Forests in one school . Every student in Year 8 had a lesson a week of Geography in French. The Europe section lessons 1-5 had an assessment at the end which looked at the physical and human geography of Europe in the context of a tour of Europe(see that resource) . The European Union end of unit assessment is a debate about advantages and disadvantages of the EU which is backed up by extended writing in the form of speeches for and against. There is therefore the opportunity to use written and spoken french at a high level. There are exemplars of student work . There are writing and speaking frames to support. There are many video clips with listening cards to support comprehension. The unit has a student handbook which can be used by students ot write in and keep as a reference resource. This unit looks at the history of the EU, what the EU provides for its citizens, how it is funded and what the advantages and disadvantages of the EU are. It looks at Brexit and its implications amid this debate.

This is a unit which introduces the locational Geography of Europe . It identifies countries,capital cities rivers, mountains, seas and Oceans . It ends with a task to devise a tour of Europe which is undertaken individually , pairs or groups. The tour is presented to the class and is peer assessed. There are four examples of student work. Some of it is good and others are less os . For example it is important to point out that the students need to understand the French ie do not cut and paste . Also the level of detail needs to show detailed and accurate research .