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Ce premier dossier est conçu pour vous permettre de vérifier et mettre à jour vos connaissances sur le Royaume-Uni en vous invitant à une recherche d’informations essentielles sur Internet. De cette façon, vous développerez votre autonomie et serez le propre acteur de votre formation, dans le but de progresser plus rapidement et de vous préparer plus efficacement au concours de l’IEP. Bonne quête ! J

1 WEBQUEST ON UK BASICS

1.1 Click on the following link for information on Great Britain and the UK and answer the questions below

1. Name the 4 countries of the United Kingdom and their capitals. Give the difference between the UK and Great Britain. http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/britain/britain.htm ______________________________________________________

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2. Inhabitants of each country have their own nationality. All nationals of the UK are known as Britons, or the British. Find the other nationalities using any online source. Country/Kingdom

Nationality Nationality

a. Northern Ireland

A Northern ________man/woman

the ____________________ _______________________

b. _______________

A Scotsman/Scotswo

the ___________________

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___ man _ c. ________________

A __________man/woman

the Welsh

d. England

An __________man/woman

the ____________________

e. GB/The UK A Briton Britons/the British 3. Use the following website to answer the questions below http://projectbritain.com/geography/unionjack.html

1.2 Click on the following link for information on the UK’s Monarchy and do the exercises below. http://www.royal.gov.uk/monarchuk/themonarchytoday.aspx 1. The UK is a ________________________ monarchy which means that ________________________ is its Head of State. The current reigning Monarch is _________________________. The Queen is also the ______________ of the Faith. The Monarch’s role is largely ceremonial, the laws being made by the Parliament. 2. Read sections ‘Queen and the Government’ and ‘Queen and the Church’, then sum up the duties fulfilled1by the Monarch of the UK ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 to fulfil : remplir

b. What country does this flag belong to? What does it represent? ___________________________________________________

c. What country does this flag belong to? What does it represent? ___________________________________________________

d. What country does this flag belong to? What does it represent? ___________________________________________________

a. The “Union Flag” or “Union Jack” symbolizes the union of 3 of the UK’s countries which are: ____________________________________________________

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2 WEBQUEST ON UK POLITICS

2.1 UK Government http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/index/government.htm http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/government.html http://projectbritain.com/government/index.htm http://projectbritain.com/government/elections.htm 1. What are the Two Houses of Parliament? Give the difference between the two. _____________________________________________________________________ 2. What is the job of Parliament? _____________________________________________________________________ 3. What is a Peer (in the British political system) and how does one become one? _____________________________________________________________________ 4. How often are General Elections held? _____________________________________________________________________ 5. How is the Prime Minister elected? _____________________________________________________________________ 6. Define “First past the post”: _____________________________________________________________________ Watch this short You Tube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmGCwiQvhH0 7. How many ministers are there in the UK? _____________________________________________________________________ 8. What is an MP? _____________________________________________________________________ 9. What is a constituency? How many constituencies are there in the UK? _____________________________________________________________________ 10. What is the main role of the MPs? _____________________________________________________________________

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Answer these questions by finding your own website sources on the Internet. 11. Who is the current Prime Minister of the UK? _______________________________ When was he elected? ______________________________________ 12. Where does he live? ______________________________________________________ How long has he lived there? Why?_________________________________________________________________

2.2 UK Political Parties and their Leaders after May 2015 General Election Go to the following website to answer question 1. http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/mps/current-state-of-the-parties/ 1. What are the three main UK political parties represented in parliament today?

a) ___________________________________ b) ___________________________________ c) ___________________________________

Use the following sources or your own sources to answer questions 2 and 3 http://www.snp.org/people/angus-robertson or http://www.snp.org/media-centre/news/2015/may/angus-robertson-confirmed-westminster-leader en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leader_of_the_Labour_Party_(UK) 2. Who are their respective leaders?

a. _____________________________ is the Prime Minister of the UK and Leader of the b. _____________________________ Party (Tories).

Harriet Harman is the Deputy Leader of the c.________________ Party has also been Acting Leader since the resignation of Ed Miliband on 8 May 2015 following the 2015 general election. She will be replaced by whoever wins the current Labour leadership d.______________. (see 3.2) From 25 September 2010 until 8 May 2015, the office was held by Ed

Miliband. e._____________________________ has been the Leader of the f._____________________________ ,Westminster’s third largest party since the general election of 8 May 2015.

3. Answer the following questions on the history of the two major political parties: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_mAGXIWb9Q http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8536227.stm

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a. When was the Labour party formed? ___________________________________________________________________________ b. What was Labour’s most respected and reputable government (in 1945)? Who led it (who was its Prime Minister) ___________________________________________________________________________ c. Which party does the modern Conservative Party descend from? ___________________________________________________________________________

3 WEBQUEST ON UK LEADERS – PAST AND PRESENT

3.1 UK Past Political Leaders Guess the names of the following former UK Political leaders from the information given. If you cannot guess who they are you can look up their birthdates, birthplaces and other information on the Internet.

I was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire on October 13, 1925 and I died on April 18, 2013. I was Prime Minister of the UK from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand "I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!" or "I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!" "I am homeless, the Government must house me!" and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing!

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1. Who am I? ___________________________________________________________________________ 2. Here are some of my nicknames. Find out why I was called these things. Attila the Hen: ______________________________________________________________ Read this newspaper extract: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19791029&id=gjkyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=l6QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2862,3809734 Milk Snatcher: ______________________________________________________________ Watch the following video from 6:02 to 6:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNvtTAgnzRo to answer the following questions: 3. Which three consecutive elections did I win? ________, ________, ________. 4. Here are two names of some of my most famous policies and political decisions. Find out more about them. Community charge (poll tax): ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ The Falklands War: __________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ 5. Which US President was I very close to? Why? ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ Answer the following questions after reading this website, http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-22079683 6. Which industries did I help to privatise? ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ 7. What is meant by “rolling back the frontiers of the state”? ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Date of Birth: 6 May 1953 Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland Helped to create: New Labour

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1. Who am I? ___________________________________________________________________________ 2. Here are some of my nicknames. Find out why. America’s Poodle2: ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ Teflon Tony: ___________________________________________________________________________ https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers (Find me among the Prime Ministers) 3. Which political party did I lead? When was I Prime Minister? ___________________________________________________________________________ 4. What did I change about my party? What did I create? ___________________________________________________________________________ 5. Why did I coin3 this new term for my party? ___________________________________________________________________________ 6. Which media tycoon4 chose me to be godfather to his daughter? ___________________________________________________________________________ 7. What was my most unpopular political decision? ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

2 poodle : un caniche, fig. un toutou 3 to coin : inventer une expression 4 tycoon : un magnat

Born – Died: 30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965 Place of Birth: Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK Participated in: Yalta Conference

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1. Who am I? ___________________________________________________________________________ 2. Here is one of my nicknames. Find out why. The British Bulldog: http://www.quora.com/Why-was-Winston-Churchill-called-the-British-Bulldog ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Answer the following questions with the help of the websites below: http://www.biography.com/people/winston-churchill-9248164/videos/winston-churchill-the-british-bulldog-2197302924 https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers 3. Which political party did I lead? When was I Prime Minister? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. I am one of the UK’s most loved Prime Ministers and politicians. Why? ___________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. When did I switch political parties? Why? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. What is another way of saying “to switch parties”? ___________________________________________________________________________ 7. Which Nobel Prize did I win? When? ___________________________________________________________________________ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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1. Who am I? ___________________________________________________________________________ 2. Which political party did I lead? When was I Prime Minister? ___________________________________________________________________________ 3. Who was the Prime Minister before me? ___________________________________________________________________________ 4. According to this website, what did I do to one fifth of the British economy? https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers (Find me among the Prime Ministers of the 20th and 21st century) ___________________________________________________________________________ 5. What was the Beveridge report? What was my relationship to it? (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/brave_new_world/welfare.htm ) ___________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. What is meant by the expression “from cradle to grave”? http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/brave_new_world/welfare.htm ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ 7. What is the Welfare State? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ …………………………………………………………………………………………………

3.2 Current UK Political Leaders

Born – Died: 3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967 Place of Birth: London, England, UK Major Acts: National Health Service Acts (1946)

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1. What political party/ies do these four politicians belong to? Why were they pictured side by side in Summer 2015?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11811285/Leadership-battle-Party-begins-voting-today-live.html

Jeremy Corbyn, Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The winner of this Party’s leadership election is to be known mid-September 2015. He/she will be the Leader of the Opposition. Find his/her name on the website of your choice once the leadership election has taken place: ___________________________________________________________________________

2. On 8 May 2015, the ______________________ Party turned in its worst performance at a general election since 1970, with 8 MPs elected, down from 57 in 2010.Its share of the popular vote fell from 23% in 20% in 2010 to 8%. Nick Clegg retained his Sheffield Hallam seat, but resigned as party leader. Tim Farron was elected to the leadership of the party.

3. Fill in the following table of the main Westminster Party Leaders after the 2015

general election, using your own internet source and the following website: http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/mps/current-state-of-the-parties/ See also 2.2

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Look at the picture below and answer these questions, with the help of the Internet: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/14/bnp-ukip-voters-politics-immigration http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-32612295

a.___________________ ???????????????????? e.__________________ f._________________ Conservative Party (Tory) c. ____________________ Scottish National Party

(SNP) Liberal-Democrat Party

(Lib Dem) b.___________________ d. Opposition Leader ///// ///// Eton ??? Aberdeen University Newcastle University

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Campaigning for May 2015 General Election 1. What party is this leader of? _______ = UK Independence Party 2. What year did this politician become leader of his party? __________ 3. What is his position on the UK and Europe? ___________________________________________________________________________ 4. What is his position on immigration to the UK? _________________________________________________________________________

4 WEBQUEST – Current UK Political Developments

4.1 Devolution and Scottish Independence

Answer the following questions on Devolution in the UK with the help of this BBC short guide to Devolution:

http://www.bbc.com/news/election-2015-31502626

1. Define devolution. ________________________________________________________________________ 2. When did the public vote on devolution? ________________________________________________________________________ 3. Say what was created as a result of devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern

Ireland. ________________________________________________________________________ 4. Give a few examples of powers that are devolved: ________________________________________________________________________ 5. Which powers are not devolved?

___________________________________________________________________________ Some facts and figures about the referendum on Scottish independence:

Name : ___________________________ Age : ___________

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6. The referendum on Scottish independence took place on:

___________________________ 7. ___% voted NO and ___% voted YES

8. What are the consequences of the Scottish Referendum?

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4.2 Europe and the UK Scroll through the following website to read about the history of the UK in Europe and answer the questions below. The UK and Europe have always had a rocky relationship: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-26515129

1. When did the UK join the European Union?

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2. Say if the following former PM were Eurosceptic or Europhile: Margaret Thatcher =_________________________ Tony Blair =____________________________ Leaving the European Union was once again on the British political agenda during the 2015 General election. Read the following websites and answer the questions below. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-22530655 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-20448450 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-22509588 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/08/guardian-view-eu-referendum-debate-conservative-party-david-cameron

3. David Cameron has promised to hold a referendum on the UK’s future in Europe. The referendum should be taking place at the latest by year ___________?

4. Does the prime minister really want the UK out of the EU? What does he more specifically want? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4.3 The Calais Migrant Crisis

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Read the following websites, describe the picture and fill in the gaps below:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33982018 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02yxbtp Find the date when the picture was taken and the identity (name, nationality, occupation) of the two ministers; say what they are doing:

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The deal is expected to include more ______________ around the Calais site (called the Jungle) where the migrants are living. As part of the agreement, the British Home Office said that British _____________ officers will be deployed to Calais to combat gangs smuggling the _________ across the Channel. ________________________________________________________________________