Curricular Statement :To get an awareness about mail order house through observation, lecture method and general discussion.

Content Analysis

Terms

Mail order houses, value payable post

Facts

Mail order houses are retail outlets that sell their merchandise through mail. Goods for mail order business should be standardized, graded and branded Goods for mail order business should be light in weight Goods should not be easily perishable Goods should not be locally available Post office is the important place in mail order business.

Concept

Mail order houses are kind of retail business which receive orders and delivers articles through post. There is no directcontact between the buyers and the sellers

Instructional Objectives

General objectives Specifications

The learner

Remembering: Recalls the terms, facts, concepts, regarding mail order house

Recognizes the terms, facts, and concepts regarding mail order house.

Name of the teacher : Aswani Raj

Name of the school : Govt.H.S.S.Anchal East

Subject : Business Studies

Unit : INTERNAL TRADE

Topic : Mail Order Houses

Standard : XI

Division : A

Strength: 56

Duration : 40min

Understanding: Identifies mail order houses.

Applies: analyze mail order houses.

Skill: Draws a chart showing the features of mail order house.

Interest: reads extra books of Commerce.

Attitude: Wants to know more about mail order business.

Appreciation Develops desirable positive attitude towards the topic.

Create: Produce a project report on the topic mail order houses

Learning strategies: Lecture method, general discussion, group discussion.

Teaching learning resources: usual classroom aids and a chart showing the features of mail order houses. Paper cutting of mail orders

Pre-requisites

Cognitive: students have general idea about mail order houses

Affective: Students have an interest to studying mail order houses

Psychomotor: Students have the skill of drawing chart.

Class room interaction procedure Expected responses

Introduction

After usual classroom practice, the teacher introduces the topic by asking the following questions.

1. Have you ever heard about Amazone, Flipcart, Mintra etc…

2. Have you ever purchased goods through them? 3. Do you purchase things via internet?

Presentation

Even before the popularity of internet, we used to purchase things by post. Have you ever heard about people purchasing things by contacting the sellers through post for the payment and collecting more details about the product?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Then the teacher shows a paper cutting of an advertisement of a book detailing the quality of the product and the mode of payment to own a book.

BB

Mail order is a kind of retail business which receives orders and delivers the article through post. Post office always plays an important role here. There is no direct contact between the buyers and the sellers.

Development

Do you think that mail order house is a suitable way to buy all kinds of goods?

To identify the suitability of goods for mail order business teacher initiates a group discussion. Divides the class into different groups and asks them to discuss on that.

Teacher classifies the doubt if any and ensures the participation of each and every student in the discussion. After the discussion the teacher asks the groups to present their points. Teacher refines it and writes it on the black board.

Suitability of goods for Mail Order

1. Goods should be standardized 2. Goods should be light in weight. 3. Goods should be relatively valuable in proportion to

their weight. 4. Goods should not be perishable. 5. Goods should not be damaged in transit 6. Goods should not be locally available.

Closure

Teacher concludes the class by asking students selected at random to summarize the main points.

Review Questions

What do you mean by mail order? What types of goods are normally used in mail

Yes

Observe it

Observe and write it on their note book

No

Participate in group discussion

Students present their points

order business?

Follow up Activity

Collect advertisements of mail order business from newspapers, magazine etc…and prepare a report on that.

Give answer

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