UnitThreePoliticalSystem

Lesson6

PoliticalSystemintheUKandtheUSA

LearningObjectivesStarterTextsstudyLessonReviewCaseStudySupplementaryReading

AcquireageneralideaaboutthepoliticalsystemsoftheUKandtheUSA.Learnaboutthefunctionsofmajorpoliticalpartiesandothergovernmentorgansinthesetwocountries.Learnaboutthefunctionsofthestateleadersandpartyleadersinthesetwocountries.MakeacomparisonofthepoliticalsystemsbetweentheUKandtheUSA.LearningObjectives

Starter:Tellaboutthefollowingpictures:Whatrolesorfunctionsdotheyplayintheirrespectivepoliticalsystems?

BuckinghamPalaceBuckinghamPalace:Originallybuiltin1703,thepalaceisnowtheofficialLondonresidenceoftheBritishmonarchlocatedintheCityofWestminster.Thepalaceisasettingforstateoccasionsandroyalentertaining,andamajortouristattraction.

RoyalCoatofArmsoftheUK:RoyalCoatofArmsoftheUK:TheofficialcoatofarmsoftheBritishmonarch,currentlyQueenElizabethII.ThesearmsareusedbytheQueeninherofficialcapacityasmonarch,andareofficiallyknownasherArmsofDominion.

TheWhitehouseTheWhitehouse:istheofficialhomeandprincipalworkplaceofthePresidentoftheUnitedStates.

Pre-readingTextAPOLITICALSYSTEMINTHEUKTextBPOLITICALSYSTEMINTHEUSATextsstudy

Pre-reading:findoutthemeaningofthefollowingexpressionsandidentifywhichcountrytheybelongto,theUKortheUSA.1Constitutionalmonarchy2PrimeMinister3parliamentdebate4Cabinet5DemocraticParty6RepublicParty7President8Congress9generalelection

ConstitutionalmonarchyAconstitutionalmonarchy,oralimitedmonarchy,isaformofconstitutionalgovernment,whereineitheranelectedorhereditarymonarchistheheadofstate,unlikeinanabsolutemonarchy,whereinthekingorthequeenisthesolesourceofpoliticalpower,asheorsheisnotlegallyboundbythenationalconstitution.T