1. Learning Objectives UNIT TITLE: Unit 1: Business Purposes
LESSON TITLE: Classifications of Industry
CRITERIA: P3/M2
COMPETENCY FOCUS:
ICT Skills (L6): You will develop your skills in using ICT applications during the production of your coursework.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the lesson, you should be able to…
LO1) Identify the three industry sectors (Gui)
LO2) Describe each industry sector based on what they do (Gui-Reg) (P3)
LO3) Compare areas of growth and decline between each industry sector (Reg-Str) (M2).

2. Have a think…
Identify each type of business. State what is happening in each picture.
= 5mins

3. What do we understand by the term ‘industry’?
“A group of businesses that offer the same or similar products”.
Example:
Retail Banking Industry
Lloyds
HSBC
NatWest
Barclays

4. Industry Sectors Industries can be classified into three main sectors:
- Primary
- Secondary
- Tertiary

5. Primary Sector
Industries that are involved in obtaining raw materials/natural resources from the earth.
These may include farming,
fishing and forestry.

6. Primary Sector
Also include ‘extractive industries’ as they extract natural resources from the earth such as…
…coal mining, quarrying and drilling for oil.

7. Secondary Sector
Once raw materials have been extracted by primary sector industries, secondary industries are involved in the second stage of the production process.
Involves taking the raw materials and turning them into finished/semi-finished products.
Example: car manufacturing, oil refinery turning oil into petrol, using timber to build houses.

8. Tertiary Sector Provides a service to businesses and consumers.
Often referred to as ‘Service Sector’
Examples include banking industry, hotel industry, retail industry & communications industry.

9. MINI-TASK
Identify which sector the following belong to and why you would classify it in that sector:
A beauty salon
A taxi firm
A slate quarry
A bakery
A salmon farm in Scotland
Tesco Plc
‘Heat’ magazine
South Staffs Water Plc
A TV company such as Sky TV
A vegetable canning business
An oil refinery
A housebuilding company such as Barrett Homes
(5mins)

10. P3 COURSEWORK TASK
Refer to your assignment brief! Your focus organisations are:
SECTOR
LOCAL
NATIONAL
PRIMARY
Essington Quarry
Meridian Salmon Group (Scotland)
SECONDARY
Jaguar Land Rover (Coventry)
Warburtons Bakery
TERTIARY
Chipton Fryer
Tesco Plc

11. P3
For each of the businesses , you also need to explain what the legal structure of the business is i.e. soletrader, partnership, private-limited company (LTD) and public-limited company (PLC).
For each business, explain what sector they belong to, expand on their purpose and say what legal structure is.

12. Sort it out! Card Sort Activity (5mins)
On each table there is an envelope. Inside the envelope there is a set of images and statements. I would like you to work with the people on your table and sort these under the three headings; primary sector, secondary sector and tertiary sector.