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Exercises

38.1 Circle the correct word from the choices offered.

1 A member of parliament governs / rules / represents hisorherconstituency.
2 Indiagainedrepublic/independence/democracyfromtheUKin1948.
3 Onelecting/voting/pollingdayelectorscasttheirvotes.
4 She’srunning/sitting/walkingforParliamentinthenextelection.
5 Hisfatherwasvoted/stood/electedMPforCambridgeCity.
6 Whatisyourcountry’seconomicpolitics/policy/politician?
7 TheUSAisalegislature/federation/congressof50states.
8 Althoughmodernmonarchsaresaidtorule/govern/presideovertheircountriestheyhave
littlerealpower.

38.2 Look at this text about politics in the UK. Fill in the missing words.

ParliamentintheUKconsistsoftwo 1 chambers :theHouseofCommonsandtheHouse

ofLords.Thecountryisdividedinto 2 ,eachofwhichelectsa(n) 3
torepresentitintheHouseofCommons.TherulingpartyintheCommonsistheone
whichgainsa 4 ofseats.Themainfigureinthatpartyiscalledthe 5
Sometimesmorethanonepartymaysharepowerina 6 government.
TheCommonsiselectedforamaximumperiodoffiveyearsalthoughthePrimeMinistermay
callageneral 7 atanytimewithinthatperiod.

38.3 Match the sentence beginnings on the left with the endings on the right.

1 ThePresidentappointedhisuncle c a overaCabinetofMinisters.
2 ThePrimeMinisterpresides b ontheballotpaper.
3 Inlastyear’selectionIvoted c asajudge.
4 Leesayshewouldneverwanttostand d frominourconstituency.
5 Putacrossbesidethenameyouwant e theseatinourconstituency.
6 Ihaven’tdecidedyethowtocast f fortheGreenPartycandidate.
7 I’mnotkeenonthecandidatewhowon g forpoliticaloffice.
8 Wehadfivecandidatestochoose h myvote.

38.4 Find a word from the Language help section to match each definition.

1 thepersonwiththehighestpoliticalpositioninarepublicthePresident
2 someonewhospeaksordoessomethingofficially,onbehalfofagroupofpeople
3 theleaderofacountry,e.g.amonarchordictator

4 theperiodofofficeofthepersonwiththehighestpoliticalpositioninarepublic
5 systemusedforcontrollingacountry
6 thegroupofpeoplewhoareentitledtovote
7 toactofficiallyforagroupofpeople

38.5 Over to you

Writeaparagraphaboutthepoliticalsysteminyourcountry.Makesureyourparagraphdealswith
all the following aspects of the topic appropriate to your country:

kindofgovernment,e.g.arepublicoramonarchy chambersorhouses elections termsofoffice
government leader

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