Lesson 1 of Geog A level Edexcel Globalisation topic

1. Key Enquiry Question 1:
What are the causes of globalisation and why has
it accelerated in recent decades?
Key terms:
Transnational
Corporations (also
known as Multinational
Corporations)
Gross Domestic Product
Emerging Economies
Remittances
Interdependency
Key Concept:
 3.1a Globalisation involves widening and deepening global
connections, interdependence and flows (commodities, capital,
information, migrants and tourists).
LO: What is globalisation?
ALL: Define globalisation
MOST: Explain how and why globalisation has
accelerated
SOME: Assess the pros and cons of globalisation

2. What is globalisation?
1. DEFINE. SHARE ON YOUR TABLE.

3. QUIZ – did you do your pre-learning?
• TEAMS/1-containerisation quiz
Look at the tabs at the top of the globalisation channel.

4. What is globalisation?
‘The increasing integration of economies around
the world, particularly through the movement of
goods, services, and capital across borders. There
are also broader cultural, political, and
environmental dimensions of globalisation’ – IMF
‘It might mean sitting in your living room in
Estonia while communicating with a friend in
Zimbabwe. Or it might be symbolised by eating
Ecuadorian bananas in the European Union.’ –
World Bank
Wider reading
– what is
globalisation?
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Wider reading –
what processes
lead to
globalisation?
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5. Three aspects
Globalisation
Connections are lengthening
• new links between places
that are greater distances
apart
Connections are deepening
• More people’s lives connect
with far away places – e.g.
purchasing commodities /
cheaper travel
• Not just rich people who
‘live globally’
Connections are faster
• Faster speed of connections
with people able to talk to
one another in real time or
travelling quickly between
continents using jet aircraft

6. Task: Ten Basic Questions about Globalisation
Find out the answers to the ten questions on your sheet.
You will need to move!
Write all the answers down.

7. The global village

8. The global village
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t14kY8WLQ7g

9. TASK choice
Amber task – globalisation and tech
See next 2 slides – amber tasks 1 and 2.
Red task – pros and cons of globalisation
RED TASK 1
Sort the statements into 'pros' and 'cons'.
RED TASK 2
Then write a short paragraph to summarise
your view.
EASIER red sentence:
On balance globalisation is
…......because....................
HARDER red sentence:
Different players will feel differently about
globalisation. For example ...........

10. AMBER TASK 1

11. AMBER TASK 2

12. HW
• Are you a global citizen? Due Tues 28th at 9am.
Available in TEAMS assignments. See the 'after class' folder for today's
lesson.

13. Plenary – GAME time!
On the following slide are 9 boxes which you will choose for me to
reveal – you must tell me what relevance the picture in the box has to
what you have learnt today.

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