USA Tourism Case Studya

Study this PowerPoint (and copy the links to each of the videos into Google and watch them) about China and use it to write responses to the questions on the worksheet:

Here is the PowerPoint:

Geog Theme 4 China

Here is the corresponding PowerPoint:

China PPT Worksheeta

Resources for this week’s lessons:

The Roman Empire Introduction Activity

The Roman Empire Extended Activity

Powerpoint explanation of this chapter with DNL vocabulary (to be used in forthcoming lessons):

1° Euro Geog Theme 3 Presentation

Resources for the Egypt agriculture case study (to be used in forthcoming lessons):

Agriculture and Rural Fragmentation in Egypt

This week the class have studied the issue of mobility by looking at a case study of the Lorraine TGV station (built near a small village) and how the island of La Réunion has built a dual carriageway in the sea to facilitate the flow of traffic and reduce the frequent traffic jams experienced there.

The class wrote short answers and gave oral responses to the exercises on the documents below:

France Lorraine TGV station

La réunion case study

Short documentary (in French) about the new coastal road:

A resource pack for use in support of learning about Mobility case studies:

France Mobility Case Studiesa

A video about La Réunion:

How are rural spaces changing?

In this new assignment you will learn how rural spaces are changing in LEDCs and MEDCs and be confronted with important new DNL vocabulary (e.g. rural gentrification) and the urban-rural continuum which is a model that attempts to describe how rural space changes (in richer countries) with distance from large cities.

As an introduction, you will first need to study the PowerPoint below and use it to complete the assignment.

1° Euro Geog Theme 3 Presentation Part Two

Use the PowerPoint to help complete the worksheet below and take the time to study the Grade Descriptions for questions b and c (these show you what is required to achieve maximum points for these questions):

1° European Section Geog Th 3 Part Two Assignmentex

This is, sadly, a still topical case study about people escaping war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East and migrating to Europe.

You will need to watch the two videos (see links below) and read the article from the Guardian (UK newspaper) about the experiences of migrants in order to complete the assignment.

Please begin by watching the short video tutorial I have recorded to introduce and explain this subject:

Migration across the Mediterranean explained:

Migrants telling their stories:

For the final, summary exercise, please copy the link below to access the article on the website of The Guardian newspaper about the photograph:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/21/photo-migrants-laith-majid-journeys

If this link does not work, try writing the following words into google search and you will immediately find the article:

theguardian photo-migrants-laith-majid-journeys

In this chapter you will learn about the issue of mobility in the world today (pre-confinement). This video provides a good introduction to some of the key concepts regarding why people migrate:

1° Euro Gg Theme 3 Part One

This chapter studies how rural spaces are changing around the world. This introduction Powerpoint (in French mostly) should be used to complete exercises 1-4.