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Activity 2c
Objective: to
revise comparative forms
Remind PP about how to form the comparative if they have forgotten. You can
refer to the example in the Remember box. Then ask them to compare the num-
ber of MPs the different political parties have according to the diagrams in 2b.
Homework
For homework PP read the information and then write similar information about
a political party in Uzbekistan. They have this information in their citizenship
textbooks, but they will need to summarise from their mother tongue into
English.
Lesson 2 Local government
Objectives:
• to enable PP to talk about the functions
of local government
• to practise listening for gist and for specific information
• to practise reading for detailed information
• to practise working with diagrams
• to present information about the UK
• to teach PP about financial planning
Activity 1a
Objective: to stimulate PP ideas about local government in Uzbekistan
Divide pupils into pairs and ask them to try to answer the question.
Elicit
some answers from pairs and let the class say if they agree. You could ask if
PP know what things local government in Uzbekistan is responsible for and
give examples to help them.
Activity 1b
Objective: to practise reading for detailed information
Ask pupils to read the text and compare local government in the UK with what
they said about Uzbekistan in Activity 1a.
Activity 2
Objective: to practise listening for gist and for specific information
Ask pupils to read the question, then listen to
the interview and answer the
question after listening. You should play the CD twice. The second time you
can pause in the relevant places and ask PP to note down which things local
government does for people.
CD script
Presenter: Today our guest is Mr Farrell, a councillor in a London Borough
Council. Mr Farrell … could you tell us: is local government
important for people?
Mr Farrell: Yes …Well …
For people, who live in …er… say Hammersmith
in the west of London, the decisions of Parliament at West-
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minster or … of the European commission in Brussels are not always
that important in their everyday lives. Local government affects people more.
P: Why does local government affect people more than central government?
Isn’t central government also very important for people?
F: Yes.. you’re right, it is. Central government affects citizens in many
ways … for example, it provides them
with hospital treatment when
they are ill … and … with a pension in old age. But Local government
probably affects them more closely.
P: Could you give us any examples?
F: Well … local governments make sure that children are taught in school,
that the streets are cleaned and that there are street lights, that the
police and fire brigade protect life and property, that dustbins are emp-
tied ... all things which affect people’s daily lives. ...
And the council
also owns a lot of low-cost housing, and makes all the planning deci-
sions - where a new cinema can be built … and whether a club can
have dancing.
P: Some cities have Lord Mayors … are they lords?
F: No … Borough Councils call the chairman ‘Mayor’, and big cities like
Birmingham or Plymouth call him ‘Lord Mayor’ but he is not really a lord.
P: How are councillors elected?
F: The councillors are politicians who have won their seats in local elec-
tions. They also usually live in the borough and are known to the public
… so there is a high degree of local democracy.
P: So, councillors are politicians like MPs in Parliament …
F: Well… yes and no … The council is a Parliament in miniature … except
that the councillors,
unlike MPs in Parliament, are part-time and unpaid.
This is the system in towns, cities and rural areas throughout the country.
Activity 3a
Objective: to practise writing a finance plan for a year
Divide PP into groups and ask them to look at the diagram and write a finance
plan for a year for their town or area. Remind them to think about what services
they think are important for their community. PP should draw a diagram and
choose a spokesperson to report for the group.
Activity 3b
Objective: to practise talking about a finance plan for a year
Ask PP to look at the Remember Box. Explain to them
the use of the structure
‘hope to’ and its negative ‘hope not to’. You could also do Grammar Exercise
1 here.
After that ask one member of each group to report about their finance plan for
the year using the diagram they have drawn.
Homework
This is a normal reading activity for homework.
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Lesson 3 Small political parties in the USA
Objectives:
• to familiarise PP with website materials and how they are presented
• to introduce cultural information about the USA and its small political
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