Teacher's Guide - The Curriculum Project

Trade Blocs (cont’d)3. Economic Community of West African States ECOWASAsk students to read the text about ECOWAS. They should write down anywords that they don’t know. Elicit these words in turn. Ask if they, or otherstudents can guess the meaning (give them some clues if necessary). If not,give them a dictionary to look it up and tell the class, or tell them yourself.Pairwork1. True or false. Put the class into pairs. Write the statements below on theboard (but not the answers!). Give them about 10 minutes to decide whetherthe following statements are true or false. If they are false, they must providethe correct statement. Finally, elicit answers for each statement from differentpairs and check agreement with the rest of the class.a. ECOWAS is not part of the African Economic Community.Answer: True.b. Civil war and political problems in the region have not affected the progress of ECOWAS.Answer: False. Civil war and political problems in the region have slowed the progress ofECOWAS.c. ECOWAS has a single currency called the eco.Answer: False. ECOWAS is planning to introduce the eco in 2009.d. ECOWAS has a peacekeeping force called ECOMOG.Answer: True.4. MercosurAsk to read the text about Mercosur. They should write down any wordsthat they don’t know. Elicit these words in turn. Ask if they, or other studentscan guess the meaning (give them some clues if necessary). If not, give thema dictionary to look it up and tell the class, or tell them yourself.Groupwork2. Mini-Quiz. Put the students into groups of 3-5 (you need an even numberof groups for this activity), let’s say Groups A, B, C and D. Ask each group toprepare a quiz of two questions about the text on Mercosur. They shouldwrite the questions on one piece of paper, and the answers on the otherpiece of paper. Give them about 10 minutes to do this.Then ask the groups to sit opposite each other in sets of two. Group A askstheir first question to Group B. Group B must try and answer the question.They are allowed to look at the text. When they have answered, Group Aconfirms whether they are correct or incorrect. Now Group B asks Group Atheir first question. Group A answers. This continues until both groups haveasked and answered two questions. Groups C & D do the same.Now, mix up the groups again, so Group A is with Group D, and Group B iswith Group C. Again they ask and answer three questions, but this time theyare NOT allowed to look at the text.The Curriculum Project ECONOMICS: an introduction - Teacher’s Guide65