Name of the teacher: Divyalekshmi G

Standard : XI

Name of the school : Government Boys H.S.S ,Kayamkulam

Subject
Unit

: Business Studies

Strength :
Duration :

: Nature and purpose of business

Topic

: Auxiliary to trade

Content Outline

Date

Avg Age :

Commerce ; Auxiliary to trade

Content Analysis
Terms

Trade, Services, Transport, Communication,

Warehousing, Banking, Insurance , Auxiliary to trade ,
Damage, Risk, Hindrance

Facts

* Activities which are meant for assisting trade are

known as auxiliary to trade
* Auxiliary to trade are generally referred to as
services because these are in the nature of facilitating
the ativities relating to industry and trade
* Transport, Banking, Insurance, Warehousing,
Communication are regarded as auxiliary to trade
* Transport facilitates the movement of rawmaterial
to the place of production and the finished goods from
factories to the place of consumption
* Banking helps business activities to overcome the
problem of finance.
* Communication facilitates exchange of information
with on e another
*Warehousing helps business firm to overcome the
problem of storage and facilitates the availability of
goods when needed.
* Insurance helps the business from dameges due to
fire, theft, natural calamities and provide protection to

business.

Curricular Objective

To generate the idea about the concept auxiliary to

trade as a services to business through brainstorming,
group discussion

Pre- requisites

Students should have an idea about commerce and its

classific ation as trade and auxiliary to trade and it
should generate a positive idea in the life an individual.

Teachin learning resources

- usual classroom aids like black board and chalk

-Activity sheet

Teachin learning Strategies

discussion
References

Brain storming, General discussion, Group

Plus one Business Studies Text Book(SCERT)

Classroom Interaction Procedure

Phase I : Introductory Phase

After the routine classroom practices teacher begins the
class by asking some questions to reach the topic.
What is a Trade ?
Situation
If you are a manufacturer and you want to sell your
product in all over the world. What are the activities you
done to make your proct for sales.?

Based on the students responds teacher says that th ere

are so many activities which helps for trade of a
product.These are known as Auxiliaries to trade

Responses/Feedback

Phase II Developmental Phase

Teacher divides the class into five groups and
provide a cross word puzzle to each group to find out
various auxiliaries to trade.

1
3
2

Down
1. ------

4
5

facilitate the movement of rawmaterial and men from

one
place to other.
3. These provide protection to goods against fire,
theft and other
risk.
Across
2)This helps a business firm to find out finance for the
operation
4)This helps to store raw material and finished goods
5) This is the process of exchange of information
between consumer, producer,traders etc
Based on the students responds teacher concluded the
topic

Concept to be consolidated
Activities which are meant for assisting trade are
known as auxiliaries to trade.
Transport, banking, insurance, communication,
warehousing etc are the auxiliaries to trade
Transportation facilitates movement of rawmaterial
and finished goods from one place to another
Communication is the process of exchanging
information with one another
Banks helps the business organisation to find out
finance for the operations.
Warehousing helps the business to overcome the
problem of storage and facilitate the availability of goods
when needed.
Insurance helps a business to protect from various risk
due to natural calamities,theft , fire

Phase III Concluding Phase

Teacher presented the topic in a chart and motivated the
students to conclude the topic and clarify their doubts.
Review Questions
What do you meant by auxiliary to trade?
What are the auxiliaries to trade?
How transportation helps a business?
Follow up Activities
List out other activities which helps the business for
trade