3: Power and Pomp - UK Politics
Competence aims in focus:
The aims of the studies are to enable students to:
- elaborate on and discuss political issues and systems in the English-speaking world, with a special focus on the United Kingdom
- use a nuanced, well-developed vocabulary to communicate on political issues
- summarize, comment on and discuss differing viewpoints on political issues
- elaborate on and discuss linguistically demanding texts with a political perspective
- use information based on figures and statistics as a basis for communicating on political issues
(Translation: udir.no)
Textbook Tasks
Going Further
Web resources
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UK Parliament official site
(parliament.uk) -
UK Politics (BBC News)
(bbc.com) -
British politics (The Guardian)
(theguardian.com) -
Politics (Telegraph)
(telegraph.co. uk)