IGCSE EDEXCEL Economics BOP

This comprehensive pack of resources supports the teaching of the Balance of Payments on the Current Account for GCSE and A-Level Economics. It contains a mix of structured worksheets, plenary tasks, exam-style questions, and a presentation, designed to build knowledge, application, analysis, and evaluation skills.

Included Resources:
• Worksheet activities with fill-in-the-blank exercises, calculation tasks, and short-answer questions to consolidate definitions of imports, exports, visible and invisible trade, and exchange rate effects  .
• Plenary tasks encouraging deeper thinking, covering the relationship between the current account and exchange rates, reasons for deficits and surpluses, and the impacts of both. Students are guided to analyse and counter-argue points to develop evaluation skills .
• Exam-style questions ranging from short definition recall to extended discussion (6–9 marks), including structured prompts on calculating current account positions, explaining trade balances, and discussing long-term impacts .
• PowerPoint presentation introducing the Balance of Payments, designed for classroom delivery, with definitions, objectives, worked examples, and interactive tasks .
• Discussion and synthesis tasks focusing on contemporary examples such as the UK’s post-Brexit exchange rate depreciation, encouraging application to real-world contexts .