Major UK Industries

This worksheet helps students in Grades 5, 6, and 7 build economic awareness and informational reading skills by exploring four major industries in the United Kingdom: finance, technology, tourism, and manufacturing. Students read short informational sections about each industry and then answer ten comprehension and analysis questions that require careful reading, comparison, and evidence-based reasoning.

Learning Goals

• Economic Systems and Industry (Grades 5-7) – Understand how different industries contribute to the UK’s economy.
• Informational Text Analysis – Identify key ideas, details, and relationships within nonfiction text.
• Global Trade and Innovation – Examine how finance, technology, tourism, and manufacturing connect the UK to the global economy.
• Cause-and-Effect Reasoning – Analyze how industries influence daily life, jobs, and international connections.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators to support social studies and ELA standards.
• Clear Industry Breakdown – Short sections make complex economic ideas accessible.
• Analytical Question Set – Prompts students to compare industries and explain their importance.
• Supports Evidence-Based Responses – Encourages students to use information from the text in their answers.
• Flexible Classroom Use – Works well for social studies units, interdisciplinary lessons, independent practice, or assessment.

This printable worksheet helps students understand how a modern economy depends on multiple industries working together. By reading about and analyzing major UK industries, learners strengthen comprehension, economic reasoning, and critical-thinking skills. It is a simple, no-prep resource for classroom and homeschool settings that supports economic literacy, informational reading, and thoughtful analysis.

This worksheet is part of our United Kingdom Worksheets collection.