What’s the link?

The iphoneSoftware and design Apple USA

Assembly Foxconn?, Quanta, Unknown Taiwan

TFT-LCD Screen Sanyo Epson, Sharp, TMD JapanVideo processor chip Samsung KoreaTouch screen overlay Balda GermanyBluetooth chip Cambridge Silicon Radio UKChip manufacture TSMC, UMC TaiwanBaseband IC Infineon Technology GermanyWIFI Chip Marvell USATouch screen control chip Broadcom USACMOS chip Micron USANOR Flash ICs Intel, SST USADisplay Driver chip National Semi, Novatek US, TWCase, Mechanical parts Catcher, Foxconn Tech TaiwanCamera lens Largan Precision TaiwanCamera module Altus-Tech, Primax, Lite On TaiwanBattery Charger Delta Electronics TaiwanTiming Crystal TXC TaiwanPassive components Cyntec TaiwanConnector and cables Cheng Uei, Entery Taiwan

And that’s just the manufacture, what about where they’re sold and where the waste goes?

What is Globalisation?

Learning Objectives:

To understand what ‘globalisation’ is

To be able to give examples of globalisationTo be able to understand how globalisation

affects our lives

Globalisation means the way companies, and ideas, and lifestyles are spreading more and more easily around the world

What’s your link with the world?Food and

drinkHolidays

Computers, mobile phones

Clothes

Films/music

Sports

Use P.102 of the Atlas and the info cards to shade and label the countries your jeans have visited. Kuwait’

s oil makes the thread

Kuwaiti oil makes

polyester fibre

Japan’s brass wire makes

zip teeth

Namibia's copper makes

buttons

Pakistan’s cotton lines

pockets

Tunisia sews the jeans

Benin grows cotton to

make denim Zinc from Australia

makes buttons

Turkish pumice stonewashes

jeans

The jeans are designed

in the USA

Germany uses copper and zinc to make brass

buttons

The zip is made in France

Hungary makes the

thread

Italy weaves and dyes

the denim

Is Globalisation a good thing?

Write your name on a post-it note, your answer to the question and explain WHY?

Stick your post-it note on the opinion line…

No,definitely not

100% Yes Yes and No

HomeworkComplete ‘Me’ map to show where you and your family have visited.

In your book answer the question Why do your jeans come from so many countries? Use paragraphs to help you organise your ideas. This should take at least half a side to answer.

(words that might be useful include; wages, resources, skills and climate).