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Geography at key stage 3    (Year 9)

Unit 18: The global fashion industry
Section 8: What might the future be like?

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Objectives

Children should learn:
  • to justify orally or in writing a personal opinion about issues
  • to appreciate the world as a global community and the political, economic, environmental and social implications of this
  • to explore the idea of sustainable development and its implications

Activities

Outcomes

Children:
  • In preparation for a synthesising piece of formal objective writing, pupils could be asked first to decide and present their own views on globalisation as the text of a speech to be read to the class. This would be a first person account requiring them to refer to facts and evidence, but allowing for opinion and emotive response as well.
  • Following presentation of a selection of speeches, help pupils to pull together the various viewpoints and evidence to plan a piece of extended writing which: explains what globalisation is and what its effects are; considers the extent to which effects are good or bad; makes predictions for the future; and considers the issue of sustainable development. This should be formal writing, and pupils' attention should be drawn to the differences between their first person speech and their third person overview account.
  • use extended vocabulary correctly
  • express their own opinion about the globalisation process and the future of world trade, supported by appropriate facts and evidence
  • write an impersonal overview of the state of globalisation, and possible future developments including sustainable development

Points to note

  • The display should now be complete!
  • Language for learning: this activity provides pupils with an opportunity to write closely argued text, where precise links and connections are made within sentences.
  • Pupils can be reminded of earlier formal impersonal writing, as in unit 15 'Crime and the local community'.

Sections in this unit

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1. What is meant by the global fashion industry?
2. How does the fashion industry connect people around the globe?
3. How does world trade work? How does this affect the countries involved? How have trade patterns changed?
4. What do we mean by 'globalisation'?
5. How does globalisation affect the fashion industry?
6. How does globalisation affect people at a local level? What happens if the chain is broken?
7. Who are the winners and losers in the globalisation process? Is this fair?
8. What might the future be like?