Lesson Plan

• Describe the main advantages of multinational corporations for both host and home countries.
• Explain the principal disadvantages of multinational corporations for both host and home countries.
• Analyse how these impacts relate to trade‑restriction policies and globalisation.
• Evaluate the overall net effect of MNC activity on economic development.

• Projector and screen
• Whiteboard and markers
• Printed handout containing advantage/disadvantage tables
• Worksheet with case‑study questions
• Laptop for slide deck
• Exit‑ticket cards

Ask students to name a product they use daily and identify where it is made. Use this to highlight how many everyday items are produced by multinational corporations. Briefly recall prior learning on trade and globalisation, then set the success criteria: students will be able to list and evaluate MNC advantages and disadvantages for both host and home nations.

1. Do‑Now (5'): Quick brainstorm on familiar brands and their origins; students record answers on sticky notes.
2. Mini‑lecture (10'): Define MNCs and present the advantage tables for host and home countries.
3. Group Activity – Advantages (15'): Teams analyse the handout tables, summarise key benefits, and create a poster quadrant.
4. Group Activity – Disadvantages (15'): Same teams examine the disadvantage lists, discuss impacts, and add to their poster.
5. Whole‑class discussion (10'): Compare posters, link findings to trade‑restriction tools (tariffs, quotas, standards).
6. Exit Ticket (5'): Students write one advantage and one disadvantage for each country type and suggest a policy response.

Recap the dual nature of MNC impacts and how governments can balance benefits and harms through policy. Collect exit tickets as a retrieval check and assign a short homework: research a local MNC and report one advantage and one disadvantage it brings to the host and home economies.