4e : Chapter 2 : World trade

What you must remember

Case study : the Ipod : itinerary from Shenzhen to New York
Explain the different mean of transport (advantages and disadvantages) + transport in containers ==> in order to ease the transshipment
Share of the price (components, assembling, transport, design, marketing)

World trade today :
- growth of the World trade since 1960
Different types of products exported and their share in the total (agricultural goods, oil and minerals, manufactured goods) + evolution since 1960
- the most important areas for world trade : Asia and Pacific, North America, Europe

World map :
- names of the continents and the oceans and their location
- strategic seaways : location of the different straits and canals

What you must be able to do :
- to describe the itinerary of a boat
- to read a graph and to make a comentary about it

vocabulary : GDP