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The government of Great Britain

The United Kingdom is a parliamentary monarchy, but it is well-known that the monarchy today has no state power. The real power belongs to the Parliament. Parliament is a group of people who make the laws for their country. British Parliament consists of two houses, the House of Lords and the House of Commons.

The houses of Parliament are situated in London on the riverside near Westminster Abbey. Westminster Abbey is a very beautiful, ancient church in London in which the coronation ceremony of almost all English kings and queens has taken place.

The main political parties represented in the British Parliament are the Labour, Conservative, Liberal-Democratic, Welsh and Scottish national parties. The government of the country is formed by the party which has the greatest number of members elected to Parliament.

About English

The word “English” comes from the country of England. But people didn’t always speak English there. In fact, 2000 years ago England was not the name of the country, and the English people didn’t even live there.

At that time, another group of people, the Celts, lived in the place that is now England. They didn’t speak English – the name of their language was Celtic. Then, groups of people came to England from other countries in Northern Europe. The Celts had to leave England when these people came.

Today, only a few people in the world still speak a Celtic language – in Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and France. And there are only one or two English words that came from Celtic. But the names of some towns and places in England are from Celtic, such as Kent, York, Thames, and London.

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