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Tasks: British Politics

These tasks are intended to let you use your creativity while learning more about British politics.

Make a campaign poster:

Work alone or in pairs.

Choose someone who has been prime minister of the United Kingdom. Find out more about them and make a suitable campaign poster for this person.

The poster must include:

  • name

  • political party

  • election year:

  • campaign issues (issues that were important to this prime minister or something they are remembered for).

  • a picture of the candidate

Suggestions

Here is a short list of people who have been prime minister of the UK. You can choose one of them, or you can use the link to find a different person.

  • Margaret Thatcher

  • Boris Johnson

  • Benjamin Disraeli

  • Neville Chamberlain

  • David Lloyd George

  • Arthur James Balfour

  • Winston Churchill

  • Tony Blair

  • Robert Peel

  • William Pitt, the Younger

Link to List of prime ministers of Great Britain and the United Kingdom

Perform:

Work in groups.

Choose one of the tasks and write a short play.

Rehearse and perform the play before the teacher and another group. If you prefer, the performance may be handed in as a film or audio recording.

The main character is provided in the task; you have to invent the rest.

  1. The Prime Minister is facing a scandal. You are a young Member of Parliament from the PM's party and you are asked to lie to save their reputation.

  2. You are a Member of Parliament who wants to get attention to build your reputation and achieve a position of power, but you are clumsy in the way you seek to draw attention to yourself.

  3. You are a journalist. You don't have much patience and you bore easily. You have been assigned by your editor to cover debates in Parliament.

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Sist faglig oppdatert 10.01.2022