Transcript Project Instructions

Project Instructions
• You are continuing your PowerPoint presentation on your country in Southern Asia.
• Today you are focused on completing 6 slides.
• Economic System
• GDP
If you did not finish your first set of slides go
• Natural Resources and land use
back after you finish todays assignment.
• Industries
• Literacy Rate and Unemployment Rate
• History
• Do not concern yourself with transitions and making your PowerPoint fancy right now. We
will be coming back to the lab on a regular basis to work on this project. You need to focus
on getting your information from reliable sources.
• I have left you comments in the notes section to help you. Follow my instructions.
• At the end of class you must send me your PowerPoint. Be sure to save your name, your
homeroom name, and country in the title. Go to
https://hornsby7thgrade.wufoo.com/forms/send-me-your-powerpoint/ to send me your
If you get caught off task
you are getting written up.
Stay on relevant and reliable websites.
No music. No head phones.
No Facebook. No email.
Economic System
• France has a mixed economy.
• After the industrial revolution France decided to close it’s doors to foreign
markets in order to protect it’s own industries. This allowed for the economy
to shift from a command economy to a mix of command and market
economy.
• Today France’s government has devised an economic development plan with
the hopes of boosting Frances in economy for future generations.
• It’s economy is ranked 75th in the world.
GDP
• Frances GDP ( Gross Domestic Product) is $2.6 trillion US dollars.
• Frances GDP goes up about 0.4% every year.
• The GDP per capita is $40,375.
Natural Resources and Land Use
• France, in comparison to other well resourced countries, have a
limited supply of natural resources.
• Such as: coal, iron ores, bauxite, and uranium.
• While France does not have a lot of natural resources they do have
high quality rich soil that covers most of the countries land. This
makes France a large exporter of farmed food.
• Farms and forests cover 48 million hectares - 82% - of the total area of
mainland France.
Industries
• France is one of the world’s most popular destinations
to visit allowing it to boost a high tourism industry.
• About 75 million people visit France a year.
• Other major industries include: Aerospace,
automotive, pharmaceuticals, industrial machinery,
food and fashion.
Literacy Rate and Unemployment Rate
• Literacy: How many people over the age of 15 can read and write?
• 99% of the population is literate.
• How many people are unemployed in France?
• Around 10% of people in France are unemployed.
History
• 1804-1814 - Napoleon crowns himself emperor of First French
Empire; series of military successes brings most of continental Europe
under his control.
• 1870-71 - Franco-Prussian War, ending in French defeat, loss of
Alsace-Lorraine and end of the Second Empire; Third Republic lasts
until 1940.
• 1914-18 World War I - Massive casualties in trenches in north-east
France; 1.3 million Frenchmen are killed and many more wounded by
the end of the war.
• 1919 - Peace Treaty of Versailles. France regains Alsace-Lorraine;
Germany agrees to reparations.
• 1939-45 - World War II - Germany occupies much of France. Vichy
regime in unoccupied south collaborates with Nazis. General de
Gaulle, undersecretary of war, establishes government-in-exile in
London and, later, Algiers. Rise of French Resistance.
• 1951 - France joins West Germany and other European nations in the
European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) - leading to the formation
in 1957 of the European Economic Community (EEC).