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Unit 4: Issues in our fast changing world2011

This is a one hour paper on the morning of Friday June 24th 2011

The total marks available for this paper is 50

The paper will be on one issue only, that of poverty and food supply: health and nutrition around the world, contrasting the poorest people with the wealthiest and considering solutions to this global problem.

You will be given a copy of the resource book to read, annotate and keep but you can not bring this one to the exam. There are no spares, do not lose it.

A fresh copy of the resource book in full colour will be available for the exam.

In the exam, nearly all the questions will be linked directly to the sources. You will be expected, however, to show some wider knowledge about the issue from your own research.

There will most likely be a longer, decision making question at the end in which you need to give different options and justify your own opinion.

Unit 4: Issues in our fast changing world 2011: Poverty and Food



FULL COLOUR COPIES of all the resources and some practice questions are available on the Geography blog:

www.10b1geogbscs.wordpress.com

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12955042 Article published on the 4th April 2011 about how Northern Ireland’s Chief Medical Officer proposes banning TV adverts for junk food before the NHS is ‘’bankrupted by Obesity’’.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12955042









First classroom based tasks;

1. Look through the resource booklet and familiarise yourself with it. Put your name on it. Keep it SAFE.

2. Create a glossary for this exam. Make a list of all the key terms that feature in the resource booklet, begin to add definitions for those you know. E.g. calorie intake, landlessness, MEDC’s. (use a blank page at the back)

3. Consider what questions the exam board are likely to ask you about i) the resources and ii) the big issue of poverty and food. Make a list of 3 questions about each- note that one will be a decision making question, what might that be?

4. We will share these questions and on rough paper you will have a go at a couple to get you thinking about the skills you will need.

What might they ask me?Res2: ‘Describe the global pattern of undernourished people’

(Billy) Res3a+b ‘a) What is the correlation between calorie intake

per day and GDP?’ ‘b) Describe the link’ (Tom)Res5: ‘using resource 5, Define the term poverty’ (Kieran)Res8 ‘Suggest reasons that obesity might continue to rise’

(Dan W)


First ICT room tasks;

1. Seek to define all the key terms in your glossary using the internet.

2. Carry out background research that will help you to reach the A and A* grades. Think about further things you would like to know but the resource booklet doesn’t tell you. Hints of areas to research are below. Make notes in your geog book, by annotating the resource booklet or by starting a Word document.

• The food and agriculture organisation of the UN website (res 1)

• Charity websites such as Comic Relief, Red Cross, Oxfam etc. (res 4-7)

• World Health Organisation website (res 8)

• www.farmafrica.org.uk (res 11a)

• www.Jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk (res 11b)

• www.natavillage.typepad.com Village blog, may not work in school (res 11c)

This is just to get you started, search widely for related facts and stats!

http://www.farmafrica.org.uk/

http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk/

http://www.natavillage.typepad.com/


Look closely at this overview of all the themes in this exam on page 2:

Work through these 8 questions. Answer all of them by hand trying to include as many facts, numbers, stats, country names, examples etc

from the booklet as possible. (Can be written in a note taking style BUT you are

looking at around 4 sides of A4 notes in total)DUE IN ON 9TH MAY

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