Revision help every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Due to overwhelming popular demand, I will be in W122 after school on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday after school to help with revision. Starts at 3.15pm, so I can grab a cup of tea after Period 5. Any case studies you don't understand...come and ask!

Keep repeating your 'cause/effect/response' spider graphs...the idea is to build a range of ideas for each part of the topic. It doesn't work for each subject, but you can adapt it...here's an example:

'Explain how large-scale river management schemes can affect the environment'

Why do we build dams?: control the river flow; store fresh water in a reservoir; produce hydro-electric power; irrigate crops for increasing population
How do we build dams?: find a deep narrow valley; evacuate people living in the valley; block the river channel; let the reservoir fill up behind the dam
What is the effect of building dams?: farmland and property is lost as the reservoir fills up; thousands of people are displaced; silt is trapped behind the dam so soil fertility decreases downstream; erosion increases downstream because less silt is being deposited

What if you get stuck on a question?
This will almost certainly happen at some stage: re-read the question and identify the key words. The whole course is about how people respond to change...so if the question is about employment, for example, just think how jobs & work have changed: more MNCs, more tertiary jobs in MEDCs, more secondary jobs as countries industrialise, LEDCs still stuck mainly with primary jobs. Then think how people respond to those changes: campaigning for Fair Trade, replacing old factories in MEDCs with retail parks and city centre shopping centres, MNCs move to where workers can be paid less, and so on.

Not long to go...remember GCSEs are about numbers: aim to get 8-10 GCSEs A*-C and then you'll stand out from all the other students leaving Year 11 this summer around the country.

Mr G.