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Example: Teacher: Britain is a monarchy.
Student: Great Britain is a constitutional monarchy.
| 1) The party is bourgeois. 2) The leaders serve the rich. 3) The party defends workers. 4) The Opposition criticizes Bills. | 5) The lords approve Bills. 6) The Bills are signed. 7) The Bills become laws. 8) The Government resigns. |
Use these facts to speak on the topic.
UK: constitutional monarchy (monarch - head of state + parliament).
Present monarch: Queen Elizabeth II, no power.
Real ruler: PM.
Highest body of state power: British Parliament = 2 houses = House of Lords + House of Commons.
House of Lords = 1, 000 hereditary lords + peers; approve Government Bills.
House of Commons = 635 members.
New bills à House of Commons à House of Lords à Queen = laws.
Parties: many; main – Conservative (for rich) + Labour (for workers, bourgeois); others – not representative; Communist (rights of working people); elections à candidates; majority in House of Commons à Government; majority leader = PM.
Opposition: second majority party, •Government (U bills); victory à leader à new Government.
EDUCATION IN GREAT BRITAIN
Learn the pronunciation of the given words.
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Read and guess the meaning.
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1) (n) system, arithmetic, information, technology, training, class, course, certificate, result, polytechnics, college, faculty, medicine, music, commerce, type.
2) (a) primary, basic, elementary, physical, public, parallel.
