We keep teaching our A2 students until Tuesday! (What happened to half term?) So finding alternative approaches to revision can be time consuming especially after students have become saturated with timed essay and data response work. Today I used a set of ten macro charts for my A2 groups - each one was selected because I felt it reflected an important aspect of international or domestic macroeconomics - ranging from the diverging trade performance of Norway and the UK, to volatility in the world prices and output of steel. And some domestic charts focusing on UK inflation in goods and services and some evidence to what has happened to business profits in Britain during the recession.

I use data charts extensively in my A2 teaching - partly because it makes students more comfortable in interpreting the numbers and because the charts themselves are revealing in showing changing macroeconomic relationships.

Charts (please select cancel when asked to update charts!) Ten_Key_Macro_Charts.pptx