Time: 1 hour

Resources:

• TV and video player
• Programme recording
• Task Sheet 3

1. Explain the objectives of the lesson (see learning outcome 1).
2. Watch a recording of Programme 2.
3. Give each student Task Sheet 3 and ask him or her to complete it for one family member.
4. Organise the class into groups containing all the Scotts, Sallys, Petes etc.
5. Ask the groups to elect a spokesperson.
6. Set up group discussion to compare students’ views of each family member.
7. Take feedback from the groups, inviting the spokesperson first to explain the group’s views, then ask for supplementary views from other students.
8. Seek views on whether students think the family members will change their attitudes.

2. Class work: Buy now pay later?

Time: 1 hour

Resources:

• TV and video player
• Programme recording
• mail order catalogues
• A3 sized sheets of plain paper

1. Explain the objectives of the lesson (see learning outcome 2).
2. Watch a recording of Programme 2.
3. Brainstorm as many methods as can be thought of, for raising £100.
4. Organise the class into pairs.
5. Give each pair an A3 sheet, and access to a mail order catalogue.
6. Ask each pair to select an item they’d like to buy, cut out a picture of it to stick on their sheet. Make the sheet into a poster showing 2 different ways of paying for it. Emphasise the advantage of each method in big letters and the disadvantages in small print.
7. Ask a few students to display and explain their posters to the rest of the class. Draw conclusions about the advantages and disadvantages of different methods of payment.

3. Class discussion: ‘Neither a borrower, nor a lender be… for borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry’

These are lines in Shakespeare’s play: Hamlet, spoken by Polonius (Act I scene 3).

1. What do you think it means?
2. Would Pete agree with this view?

Is it possible to live by this exhortation in this century? (Most goods these days, even food, are bought on credit.)

Research assignments

In addition to developing the money issues covered in programme 1, programme 2 also covers:

• giving to charity
• shares
• saving
• bank accounts

Background information on all of these topics can be found on the FSA website and others listed in the Links section of these notes.

There are many examples of learning activities related to these topics on several websites, particularly:

www.pfeg.org/Resources/Detail/default.asp?ResourceID=233

http://www.natwestf2f.com

In addition, all the high street banks and building societies have websites from which information about saving and borrowing can be downloaded.