unit 3 3.28课件.ppt

Unit Three British Government;Look at the photos and tell how much you know about them.;Part I Cultural FocusText B Constitutional Monarchy;Warm Up ;Discussion;Con;Britain will never become a meritocracy, where people are given opportunities according to their ability, not according to their birth, if the monarchy remains. As long as the monarchy survives, so will the class system in Britain. Secondly, it is unacceptable that the British tax payer should be paying ￡75,000,000 a year to support one of the richest families in Britain (wealth accumulated of course form the people during previous centuries). ;Last year, additional expenses for a ￡200,000 wardrobe and a ￡50,000 well, both for Buckingham Palace were made to the tax payer. It may generate income form tourism, but this would increase to unprecedented levels if we were to abolish the monarchy and open up all the palaces as museums, hotels or restaurants. When people are forced to sleep on the streets, we cannot justify spending ￡75,000,000 on a relic that serves no purpose.; Thirdly, the monarchy encourages the continuation and acceptance of outdates traditions and beliefs. Apart from the image we project abroad of an outdated nation living in the past, it is a relic of an age which no person living in Britain should be proud of. The British empire signifies all that is wrong with society. Whilst Britain as a nation prospered and the monarchy lived a sheltered life of luxury, those who created the wealth, the working classes, were forced to live in unimaginable suffering. ;Abroad, Britain sold human beings into slavery, and treated inhabitants of her colonies as second-class citizens, causing the long term underdevelopment and tensions that we see today in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Is this really an institution we are expected to show loyalty to?;Pro;The behavior (or misbehavior) of individual Royals threatens the Monarchys imminent destruction; The real point of the Monarchy is constituti