Lesson 1: Why do people go to Thailand?
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Amazing Thai Smiles: Why do you think tourists might want to visit Thailand? Create a spider diagram of all the different attractions or activities you can see from the following advertisement.
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Using the presentation and the documents investigate the various attractions that Thailand has and also try to consider who would visit each site.
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Lesson 2: Thailand decision making game
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Instructions:
- You will be divided up into groups of 3 people.
- In each group there will be:
- A News Reporter - Your role is to monitor the reports coming in from the helicopter and take them to the rest of the team. You also need to ensure a decision is made in time.
- A Cartographer - Your role is to map out the various events (starting with naming the 7 places), and work with the event planner on a plan for ensuring the safety of the tourists.
- An Event planner - Your role is to make important decisions to manage the crisis. You have the reports from the helicopter and the advice of the cartographer. After you make a decision your president will give instant feedback.
- Task: Your Group task is to annotate and complete the A3 outline map with relevant information to be able to address the various crisis. The Crisis sheet will be given at the end of the lesson (last 15 minutes). Information will be given to you every 2 minutes. You will need to use your atlases and your laptops to map and annotate the A3 map. Your reporter is the only one who will see the information and will only get to see it once!
Supporting documents:
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Lesson 3 & 4: Thailand's Climate
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Review the two key concepts of:
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Draw a diagram explaining what air pressure is and how it is formed. How does it affect the weather around us?
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Monsoons
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Thailand's climate
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Assignment
In groups of 4 people your task will to be to create an infographic poster on the weather and climate you are likely to experience in China. It should include:
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Thailand's Climate Data (Bangkok)
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Use this template and the climate data above to construct your climograph. This should be included into your infographic sheet.
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Present your infographic sheets to the class and discuss Thailand's climate. Would you like to live there? What do you like or dislike about the weather there.
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Lesson 5: Tourism in Thailand
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•To know a range of jobs within tourism
•To be able to categorise them •To examine who works in Thailand's tourist industry |
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Thinking task:
Create a spider diagram considering the different types of jobs that the tourism industry generates. The diagram should take up a whole page of A4. 
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Look at the image below as a quick reminder of what the different industrial sectors are.Using the spider diagram that we created categorise the different jobs into one of the above sectors. Use colours.
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Using the mystery cards try to answer "Why has Ao bought 30 mobile phone top-up cards?"
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Discuss
Do you agree that Ao should be allowed to work in Phuket? Thumbs up = Yes Thumbs sideways = Maybe Thumbs down = No |
Lesson 6: Writing Assessment
"Examine whether it is fair that Ao works in Phuket" [20]
Limit: 2 sides A4
Tips for success:
1. Explain why Thailand generally and Phuket/Koh Phi Phi/Koh Phanagn and other islands specifically are great tourist destinations.
2. Explain who Ao is and the reasons for why he works on Phuket.
3. Evaluate whether this migration is good or bad for a) the Thai people and economy; and b) the Burmese people and economy (his home country); and c) Tourists from Russia and UK and other countries.
4. Include facts and figures to support your statements.
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