Tasks: 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.
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.
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.
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.