My Little House School
Academic year: 2021/2022
Yearly Plan
IGCSE Sociology
First term
Month
Week
September
1 (17 -21)
Chapter
Lesson
objective
Orientation Week for
Student
2 (24- 28)
1.1.1
Chapter 1.1
Business
activity
1.1.2
October
3(1-5)
4( 8-12)
Student should be able to:
The purpose
 Understand the importance
and nature of
of business activity, what
business
business needed to be
activity
successful.
 Explain the importance of
specialization.
 Outline the advantage and
disadvantages
of
The importance
specialization ( division of
of specialization
labor)
Student should be able to:
 Describe
and
classify
Chapter
1.2.1 Types of Business
business activity in term of
1.2
activity
primary, secondary and
Classification of
tertiary sectors.
businesses
 Use
examples
to
demonstrate understanding.
1.2.2 Private and Public
 Identify the key features of
sector businesses
the structure of your own
national economy.
 Explain the purpose of
business activity in terms of
the objectives of non-profit
activity, private enterprise
and public enterprise.
Student should be able to:
1.3.1 Characteristics of
 Understand
the
Chapter
successful
characteristics of successful
1.3
entrepreneurs
entrepreneurs.
Enterprise,
 Identify the content of
business growth
business plan.
and size
1.3.2 Content of
 Show how a business plan
business plan and how
assists entrepreneurs.
business plans assist
entrepreneurs

1.3.4 Business Growth
and Measurement of
size
5 (15-19)
1.4.1 Sole trader and
partnership
Chapter
1.4
Types of
business
organization
Show understanding of
different
methods
of
measuring the size of
business units.
 Show awareness of the
problems of using different
methods.
 Understand
different
methods by which business
can grow.
 Explain
reasons
why
businesses seek to grow.
Student should be able to:
 Describe the main feature of
sole
traders
and
partnerships.
 Understand the difference
between sole trader and
partnership.

1.4.2 other types of
business organization
6 (22-26)
Chapter
1.4
Types of
business
organization
1.4.3 Objectives,
growth and business
organisation.
1.4.4 Limited and
unlimited Liability
7(29-2)
Chapter
1.5
Business
objectives and
stakeholders
objectives.
1.5.1 Business
objectives
1.5.2 Stakeholders and
their different
objectives.
Describe the main feature of
limited company, franchise
and joint ventures.
Student should be able to:
 Discuss the appropriateness
of a given form of
organizations.
 Recommend and justify the
suitable forms of business
organization to the owners
and management in a given
situation.
 Understand the concept of
limited liability.
Student should be able to:
 Demonstrate
an
understanding that business
can have several objectives,
and the importance of these
can change.
 Understand the need for
business objectives.
 State and explain the role of
different grouped involved
in the business activity and

November
8( 5-9)
Chapter
1.5
Business
objectives and
stakeholders
objectives
9 (12-16)
Review Sessions for
Mid Terms Exams
10(19-23)
Mid-Terms
11(26-30)
41.1 The Meaning of
Production
4.1
Production of
goods and
Services
12(3-7)
December
1.5.3 Aims of the
private and public
sectors.
4.1
Production of
goods and
Services
4.2
Cost, Scale of
production and
Break even
analysis
their objectives: consumers,
employees,
managers,
owners, shareholders.
Identify and explain the
objectives of different
stakeholders group.
. Student should be able to:
 Demonstrate an awareness
of the differences in the
aims and objectives of
private and public sector
organization.
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Student should be able to:
 Understand how resources
can be used and managed to
help organization achieve
their objectives.
4.1.2
Methods
of
 Identify the difference
Production
between production and
productivity.
 Explain job, batch and flow
4.1.3 Lean production
production methods.
 Explain the main advantage
of different methods.
 Identify and explain ways of
implanting lean production
methods.
Student should be able to:
4.1.4 How technology
 Understand the concept of
has changed production
productivity.
methods
 Understand the concept of
turning resource inputs into
an output.
 State and explain the cost
4.2.1 cost and
classification of cost
structure of a business.
 Demonstrate understanding
as to why the process of
4.2.2 Scale of
production generates costs.
Production
 Classify costs into fixed and
variable/direct/indirect
4.2.3 Break-even
analysis and cost based
 Explain the concept of
decisions
economies
and
diseconomies of scale.
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

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13(10-14)
14(17-21)
15(24-28)
4.3
Achieving
quality
production
4.4
Choosing
Locations
5.1
Financing
business
activity
4.3.1 Quality
4.4.1 Factors
influencing location
and relocation
5.1.1 The need for
finance
5.1.2 Major sources of
finance
16
January
First Term Exams
17
18
Winter Break
Understand the reasons why
economies
and
diseconomies occur.
Explain a simple break-even
chart.
Construct a simple breakeven chart.
Interpret a given chart and
use it to analyze the
situation.
Student should be able to:
 Explain the importance of
quality control.
 Explain why quality control
and quality assurance matter
to a business.
Student should be able to:
 Identify and explain factors
relevant to the location
decisions for manufacturing
and service business.
 Show awareness of factors
that a business consider in
determining
in
which
country to relocate itself.
Student should be able to:
 Identity the main need for
finance.
 Understand why a business
need finance.
 Understand the difference
between short term and
long term finance.
 Understand the importance
of microfinance.