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Не нашли нужную работу? Закажи реферат, курсовую, диплом на заказ реферат на тему: Great BritanGREAT BRITAN 3. THE POLITICAL SYSTEM OF GREAT BRITAIN 1) The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy. 2) This means that it has a monarch (a king or a queen) as its head of state. 3) Everything today is done in the Queens name (Her Majesty the Queen Elisabeth II). 4) She approves all the Ministers, including the Prime Minister. 5) But the monarchy today has practically no power. 6) The monarch reigns with the support of the parliament. 7) A parliament is the group of people who make the laws of their country. 8) British parliament consists of two Houses: the House of Lords and the House of Commons and the Queen as its head. 9) The House of Commons plays the main role in lawmaking. 10) It consists of 650 members of Parliament who are elected for a period of five years. 11) The House of Lords has more than 1,000 members, although only about 250 take an active part in the work of the House. 12) The members of the House of Lords are not elected, they inherit their seats in Parliament. 13) The chairman of the House of Lords is the Lord Chancellor and he sits on a special seat called the Woolsack. 14) It shows that wool made England rich. 15) Members of the House of Commons belong to different political parties, and the party which gets the majority of seats in the House is called the ruling party, and the others the oppositions. 16) The main British political groups are the Conservative and Labour Parties and the Party of Liberal Democrats. 17) The Conservative Party is the ruling party, the Labour Party the opposition to the Conservatives. 18) The Conservative Party is often called the Tory Party. 19) It is the party of big business, industry, commerce and landowners. 20) The Conservative Party and the Liberal are more than three hundred years old. 21) The Liberals were called “Whigs”. 22) It was the party of the trading and manufacturing classes. 23) The Labour Party was formed in 1900. 24) It was founded by the Trade Unions, but had not done much to change the conditions of working class. 25) Among the other political parties of Great Britain there are Social Democratic Party, the Scottish National and Welsh Nationalist Parties, the Communist Party of Great Britain. 4. THE FLAG AND THE NATIONAL EMBLEMS OF GREAT BRITAIN 1) The flag of the United Kingdom is often called the Union Flag, or the Union Jack. 2) It consists of several flags. 3) In 1603 Scotland was joined to England and Wales. 4) The Scottish Flag, St.Andrews Cross (the patron saint of Scotland0, blue with a white cross from corner to corner, was joined to the English flag, St.Georges Cross (the patron saint of England), white with a red upright cross. 5) Later, in 1801, the Irish Flag of St.Patricks Cross (the patron of Ireland) was added, white with a red cross from corner to corner. 6) As for the national emblems of Great Britain they are very unusual and surprising. 7) Everybody knows about the War of the Roses (1455-1485), which was led between the two contending Houses for the English throne. 8) The emblem of one of them, the Lancastrians, was скачать реферат 1 2 3 4 Не нашли нужную работу? Закажи реферат, курсовую, диплом на заказ Внимание! Студенческий отдых и мегатусовка после сессии!
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