英语国家概况Unit4 政治Politics.ppt

Unit 4. Politics, Class, and Race ——Group 6 葛亚楠，何书梅 I. 1-5: T.F.T.F.T 6-10: F.F.FT.T 11-16: T.F.F.T.T.F II. 1-5: B.A.A.B.D 6-10:C.？.B.B.C 11-13: B.A.C 7.Ed Miliband III. 1. 650, the parliament 2. the government, the Prime Minister 3.5 4.vote of no confidence 5.percentage of the vote 6. constituency campaign 7. the Conservative party, the Liberal Democratic party. 8. National Health Service 9. the Conservative party 10. lower middle 11. The Guardian, The Sun 12. hereditary aristocracy 13. India, Caribbean 14. Mr. Gordon Brown, Secretary General, Climate Change Financing 15. the Kyoto Protocol IV. 1.The importance of general elections General elections are very important in western democracy. According to the author, they provide opportunities for people to influence future government policies and to replace those incompetent political leaders. 2.The formation of the government 651 members of parliament are elected in the general election representing 651 constituencies in the UK. The party which holds a majority of those ’’seats’’ in parliament forms the government, with its party leader as the Prime Minister 3.The electoral campaigns Before a general election, the political parties would start their electoral campaigns in order to make their ideologies and policies known to the public. The campaign involves advertisements in newspapers, door-to-door campaigning, postal deliveries of leaflets and ’’party electoral broadcasts’’ on the television. The parties also try to attack and criticize the opponents’ policies. Therefore, these campaigns sometimes can be quite aggressive and critical. 4.Class system in British society The class system does exist does exist in Britis