Task 15. Answer the following questions.

1. What can you tell about the authorities of the Prime Minister?

2. What is the number of the Cabinet members?

3. Who is the head of the government?

4. What is the principal function of the Cabinet?

5. What are the Ministers in Great Britain responsible for?

6. How can you describe the functions of Ministers of Great Britain?

7. How is the executive branch of the government formed?

8. How many members does the Cabinet of Ministers of Great Britain include?

9. Are the Ministers appointed by the Prime minister?

10. What is the term of election of the Parliament?

11. What can you tell about the “Shadow Cabinet”?

 

Task 16. Comment on the following citation:

”It is not the voting that is democracy, it is counting”.

Task 17. Refer to the text & decide which of the 20 words & phrases you need to deliver the basic information about the executive branch of the UK.

Task 18. Think of the new information about the executive system you’ve got to know & make up a list of their specific features.

 

Task 19. Work in pairs & discuss the most important points concerning the activity of the Executive Branch of UK, share your ideas with the other groupmates.

Task 20. Render the text into English.

 

Виконавча влада належить прем`єр міністру та кабінету міністрів. Прем`єр міністр призачається королевою. Він є лідером партії, яка становить більшість в Палаті Громад. Прем`єр міністр обирає міністрів, які формують Кабінет і допомагають зазвичай прем`єру приймати політичні рішення. Саме прем`єр міністр призначає дату Загальних виборів. Після проголошення дати виборів прем`єр просить королеву розпустити Парламент.

 

Task 21. Put the verb into the correct affirmative or negative form using Future Indefinite Tense in the following sentences:

Example: Voting will (will not) take place on Polling Day.

1. The second largest party ……………..(probably become) the official opposition with its own leader and the Shadow Cabinet.

2. I`m sure we……………………(to get to know) the results of the Polling day.

3. I think the party with the largest number of seats in Parliament…………… (to become) the official Opposition.

4. I expect the Cabinet……………… (to meet) in private and its deliberations ………… (be) secret.

5. I’m sure the most senior Ministers ……………. (to compose) the Cabinet.

 

Task 22. Use the structure -to be going to do smth. – in the following sentences:

Example: The central government ministries are going to give effect to government policies.

1. The Polling days` results. ……………………(to be) more unexpected than I thought.

2. The Prime Minister ……………(to select) the most important ministers.

3. The Queen …………………(to appoint) this Prime Minister.

4. Voting…………. ………(to take) place.

5. The Prime minister ………………..(to choose) the date of the next General Elections.

 

Task 23. Read and translate the following text.

Labour Party (UK)

Leader   Gordon Brown

Founded February 27, 1908

Headquarters  39 Victoria Street

London, SW1H 0HA

Political Ideology Democratic socialism

Social Democracy

Third Way

Political Position Centre-Left

International Affiliation Socialist International

European Affiliation Party of European Socialists

European Parliament Group Party of European Socialists

Colours Red (traditionally associated with socialist and communist parties)

Political parties

Elections

The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded in the early 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the centre-left in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) but not in Northern Ireland, where the Social Democratic and Labour Party occupies a roughly similar position on the political spectrum, though people in Northern Ireland can still join the party. It has formed the national government of the United Kingdom since 1997. It is also the largest party in the Welsh Assembly Government in Wales and the second largest party in the Scottish Parliament. It holds the London mayoralty and is represented in the European Parliament. Its current leader is Gordon Brown.

The Labour Party surpassed the Liberal Party as the main opposition to the Conservatives in the early 1920s. It has had several spells in government, first as minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-31, then as a junior partner in the wartime coalition from 1940-1945, and then as a majority government, under Clement Attlee in 1945-51 and under Harold Wilson in 1964-70. Labour was in government again in 1974-79, under Wilson and then James Callaghan, though with a precarious and declining majority.

New Labour won a landslide 179 seat majority in the 1997 general election under the leadership of Tony Blair, its first general election victory since October 1974 and the first general election since 1970 in which it had exceeded 40% of the popular vote. The Labour Party's large majority in the House of Commons was slightly reduced to 167 in the 2001 general election and more substantially reduced to 66 in 2005.

Party ideology

The Labour Party grew out of the trade union movement and socialist political parties of the 19th century, and continues to describe itself as a party of democratic socialism. Labour was the first political party in Great Britain to stand for the representation of the low-paid working class and it has traditionally been the working class who are known as the Labour Party grassroots and traditional members and voters .

The Labour Party traditionally was in favour of socialist policies such as public ownership of key industries, government intervention in the economy, redistribution of wealth, increased rights for workers and trade unions, and a belief in the welfare state and publicly funded healthcare and education.

Since the mid-1980s, under the leadership of Neil Kinnock, John Smith and Tony Blair the party has moved away from its traditional socialist position towards what is often described as the "Third Way"

This has led many observers to describe the Labour Party as social democratic or even neo-liberal rather than democratic socialist.[3] Blair himself has described New Labour's political position as a "Third Way". Even though the majority of grass root members and Back Bench MPs still consider themselves socialist (Socialist Campaign Group) . Also the current Labour governament have brought in socialsit policies such as introducing a minimum wage and increasing the spending on the NHS and education. Also the recent nationalising of Northern Rock has reminded many people of Old Labour

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