Welcome! I am a Business, Economics and Psychology teacher working in London, examining for GCSE & A-Level and providing high quality resources so your students can enjoy and thrive in the study of these beautiful subjects. Positive reviews are much appreciated. School purchase orders can be emailed to zee.tes@hotmail.com - Zee
Welcome! I am a Business, Economics and Psychology teacher working in London, examining for GCSE & A-Level and providing high quality resources so your students can enjoy and thrive in the study of these beautiful subjects. Positive reviews are much appreciated. School purchase orders can be emailed to zee.tes@hotmail.com - Zee
This lesson introduces learners to the different objectives of businesses. We look at the four objectives and their illustrations on a diagram, we also look at real life examples/videos of businesses with different objectives for context. We finish with a box plenary.
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This lesson introduces learners to demergers, we start by looking at a text to identify reasons why demerging might take place, we then go on to looking at reasons for demergers with some examples, before discussing the impact on workers, consumers and firms. Tasks for contextualisation included before finishing with a kahoot quiz.
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This 3 lesson bundle covers:
3.1.1 Sizes and types of firms
3.1.2 Business growth
3.1.3 Demergers
Filled with real life examples/videos, activities and kahoot quizzes to consolidate learning in an engaging way.
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This double lesson introduces learners to the concept of costs in Economics. We start by recapping the factors of production to understand the difference between short-run and long-run. We then go on to look at the law of diminishing returns and how this affects productivity on diagrams - using this as a foundation to calculate and illustrate the various costs. Consolidation tasks included and a link to a kahoot quiz and a box plenary to finish with.
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This lesson introduces learners to the concept of revenue in Economics. We first start by looking at the law of diminishing marginal utility to understand how curves will look. We then look at each formula, with examples of figures + an activity where students calculate the total revenue, average revenue and marginal revenue. Students are made aware that revenue will be different in perfect competition compared to imperfect competition. We finish with a box plenary.
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This lesson introduces learners to the different types of efficiencies. We start by watching a clip of Goldilocks to understand allocative efficiency - we go deeper into it and look at the definitions and illustrations of the different efficiencies. Videos and questions based on x-inefficiency and a box plenary to finish with.
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This 5 lesson bundle covers:
3.3.1 Revenue
3.3.2 Costs - double lesson
3.3.3 Economies and diseconomies of scale
3.3.4 Normal profits, supernormal profits and losses
Filled with examples, activities and quizzes to consolidate learning in an engaging way.
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This lessons builds on the previous lesson on costs, with an emphasis now on economies and diseconomies of scale. We look at a range of ways economies of scale can be achieved i.e. internal and external, we also look at the minimum efficient scale point and the usefulness of operating at the MES. Videos on the supermarket industry to highlight this concept and a box plenary to finish with.
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This lesson introduces learners to the concept of economic profit as opposed to accounting profit which most are familiar with. We use broken down examples to explain the concept of normal, supernormal profits and losses. We then look at marginal revenue and marginal cost to identify profit maximisation points and shutdown points. Calculation and drawing tasks to consolidate and a box plenary to finish with.
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This lesson introduces learners to the monopolistic market structure, we start by looking at the features of this market, then looking at some real life examples of firms that operate within this structure. We then look at illustrating this market structure in the short-run and long-run (animated diagrams to help students with drawing) before looking at pros and cons of monopolistic competition. A consolidation task and a true and false quiz to finish with.
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This lesson introduces learners to perfect competition, we start by looking at the characteristics of perfect competition, ensuring students understand that this is not a realistic structure but a foundation to understand market structures. We then look at illustrating perfect competition in the short-run (with supernormal profits) and in the long-run (normal profits). Pros and cons are discussed and we finish with a box plenary.
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This lesson introduces learners to contestable markets, we start by looking at the features of this market with emphasis on the ease of entry and absence of sunk costs. We look at some real life examples of markets that are contestable, and what has led to increased contestability in recent times. Pros and cons discussed and a video case study to stimulate discussion on the impact of increased contestability in the hotel market. We finish with a box plenary.
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This 10 lesson bundle covers:
3.4.1 Efficiency
3.4.2 Perfect competition
3.4.3 Monopolistic competition
3.4.4 Oligopoly - 2-3 lessons
3.4.5 Monopoly - double lesson
3.4.6 Monopsony
3.4.7 Contestability
Filled with real life examples, animated diagrams, activities and quizzes to consolidate learning in an engaging way.
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This lesson introduces learners to factors that affect demand for labour and the elasticity of labour. We start by looking at marginal revenue product to understand why the demand curve is downward sloping. We then go on to looking at factors that shift demand with illustrations and examples. A selection of of video case studies to help contextualise the topic and stimulate discussion. We finish with some true or false questions and a box plenary.
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The new Edexcel A Level Business Year 2 Exam Practice Interactive Book! A resource designed to improve essay exam skills by focusing on the key assessment objectives – produced by an examiner for this course.
This resource includes:
• An interactive + standard version PDF of theme 3 and theme 4
• Twelve essay questions – at least one from each area of the spec
• Each question has a case study, space to bullet point plan and answer, developed indicative points and marking grid for self/peer assessment
• An editable PowerPoint with the detailed indicative points for each question for whole class discussions
This can be used in a variety of ways, for example:
• Send electronically to students to type into rather than print (cost effective)
• Print selected pages to use as worksheets in class or for homework
• Teacher can request this to be printed in an A4 or A5 booklet and hand out to class
Essay topics:
1 3.1.3 SWOT analysis
2 3.2.2 Mergers and takeovers
3 3.3.3 Decision trees
4 3.4.4 Business ethics
5 3.5.3 Human resources
6 3.6.1 Causes and effects of change
7 4.1.1 Growing economies
8 4.1.2 Specialisation
9 4.2.5 Global competitiveness
10 4.3.1 Marketing approaches
11 4.3.2 Global niche markets
12 4.4.3 Controlling MNCs
Essays included are a selection from the A Level lesson bundle.
NEW UNIT ASSESSMENT FOR 2021-22
Designed to build confidence, this assessment comes with:
A 30 minute/30 mark assessment with a range of question types
A full mark scheme with model answers
Interactive PDF and standard version so it can be completed digitally or printed out
A PowerPoint with model answer for the essay context questions (to go through with class)
Concise case study like the real exam so students can focus on extracting the context and applying it in their answers
Written by an experienced examiner for Edexcel GCSE Business
This triple lesson introduces learners to the importance of having good relationships with suppliers and what makes a good supplier.Real life examples from Tesco and Vi Spring, a 6 mark context question with a modelled answer to develop exam technique. Plenty of consolidation activities to differentiate between JIT and JIC.
In the second lesson, we look at bar gate stock graphs, all broken down so it is easy to understand for students and a few 3 mark questions with answers to self or peer assess.
In the third lesson, students are given a scenario and must decide which supplier to pick for a chocolate company, they are given data and must weigh up the pros and cons of each supplier, before coming to a judgement - done well in groups.
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This 6 lesson bundle covers:
1.5.1 Business stakeholders
1.5.2 Technology and business
1.5.3 Legislation and business
1.5.4 and 1.5.5 The economy and business + external influences - 3 lessons
Filled with real life examples, case studies, questions and modelled answers to improve exam practice.
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This lesson introduces learners to what a stakeholder is, we discuss examples of stakeholders, students consider the stakehodlers of their school, we then go on to look at the different interests of the stakeholders. Some consolidation activties such as matching stakeholders to definitions or a more challenging version included.
Students consider the most important and least important interest for each stakeholder before going on to complete a 6 mark analyse question on Apple. A model answer is given with context highlighted in red - to help students build this important skill. Finally we look at conflicting interests of stakeholders with examples.
A consolidation lesson after where students research a businesses stakeholders and present findings to class.
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This lesson introduces learners to the contents and purpose of a business plan, we discuss the sections of a plan, we then go on to look at an infamous example of what it shouldn’t be like in Solomon’s plan presented to Claude Littner in the Apprentice. A 3 mark question with a model answer, a few short tasks before going onto creating a business plan in groups, a template has been provided. Students present back their plans to the class and the class are provided with a sheet to write WWW and EBI with their peers presentations.
A group task where they match parts of the business plan to the different areas of the business plan - answers included. I have not included the covering calculation of revenue, cost and profit in this lesson (as required in spec) - the reason for this is I prefer to teach it altogether in the finance section which is the first area to deliver for me.
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