Friday Afternoon Economics A-Level Resource Pack + CD

Summary:
Friday Afternoon Economics is packed with many fun and engaging revision activities. The activities have been chosen to allow students to apply their knowledge using a variety of learning styles, and to review and reinforce their understanding of key terms and concepts. They include a host of popular games like bingo, dominoes and a range of card games. These enjoyable activities make revision exercises fun and can be used at any point within a lesson. The pack is fully photocopiable and once the teacher has a set of cards prepared they can be used over and over with all groups, bringing variety and fun to any revision session. The free CD-ROM provides a PDF version of the pack for easy printing. Also included in the pack: a specification matching chart to allow easy integration into any course, answers, suggested timings and teaching notes.

• Provides a range of enjoyable and engaging activities to develop learning styles and reinforce knowledge and understanding of key concepts
  

• Activities can be adapted for individual, paired or group work
  

• Activities can be used flexibly in revision sessions or throughout the course
  

Table of Contents:
1 Markets
AS Bingo: Introduction to economics
AS Crossnumber: Elasticities
AS Matching: Interpreting market diagrams
AS Missing words: Elasticities
AS Play your cards right: Changes in demand and supply
2 Business economics
A2 Bingo: Game theory and oligopoly
A2 Bingo: Types and sizes of businesses
A2 Crossword: Pricing strategies
A2 Dominoes: Regulation and competition policy
A2 Matching: Market structures
A2 Missing words: Business objectives
A2 Triominoes: Market structures
3 Market failure
AS/A2 Bingo: Welfare economics and income distribution
AS Missing words: Market failure in education and healthcare
AS/A2 Triominoes: Causes of, and solutions to, poverty
AS/A2 Triominoes: Tackling market failure
AS/A2 Wordsearch: Types of market failure
4 Applied economics
A2 Crossword: Transport economics key terms
A2 Crossword: Wage determination
AS Dominoes: Housing economics
A2 Dominoes: Unemployment in labour markets
AS Matching: Agricultural economics
AS/A2 Missing words: Entertainment economics
AS/A2 Play your cards right: Labour markets
AS/A2 Wordsearch: Environmental economics
5 Macroeconomic policies
AS/A2 Bingo: Fiscal policy
AS/A2 Cross out the incorrect word: Government
macroeconomic objectives
AS/A2 Cross out the incorrect word: Monetary policy
transmission mechanisms
A2 Dominoes: Fiscal policy
A2 Missing words: Monetary policy
AS/A2 Play your cards right: Policies for macroeconomic
management
AS/A2 Triominoes: Economic growth
A2 Triominoes: Evaluation of macroeconomic policies
AS/A2 Triominoes: Supply-side policies
6 International economics
A2 Bingo: Trading blocs
AS/A2 Cross out the incorrect word: Exchange rates
AS/A2 Dominoes: Economic development
A2 Matching: Exchange rate systems
AS/A2 Matching: Free trade and protectionism
A2 Missing words: Balance of payments
A2 Missing words: External assistance for development
A2 Play your cards right: Models of economic growth and
development
A2 Triominoes: European Monetary Union
A2 Wordsearch: Characteristics of LEDCs
A2 Wordsearch: Globalisation
Teacher answers
Cross out the incorrect word
Crosswords
Missing words
Wordsearches