Activity

Play the cartoon to the pupils. They need to take notes on key facts and ideas. Less able pupils could be given questions to answer or a table to fill in.

Lead a brief discussion on pupils' initial reactions to the film before challenging them to re-write the first two minutes of the voice-over, updating the information to make it accurate for today. They will need to research how much food we import today, what different foods we import, the change in population size and the amount we import for our farm animals.

Some more ideas

Why not use Filling the Gap (1942) at the end of a unit on CAP? Show students this film as an example of how governments used simple animations to explain statistics in a more accessible way to a general audience. How might student explain CAP using a similar technique? Students will need to think about the key points to make and how they might be represented visually.