2. Read the following sentences and decide if they are true or false:

1. The Government is the body which decides the laws of the coun­try and decides about the way the country should be governed.

2. The Government is the Ministers chosen from the Party (or par­ties) which has the largest number of MPs in the House of Com­mons after a general election.

3. The Prime Minister is the leader of the governing party.

4. The Queen chooses the Cabinet.

5. The Cabinet are the senior members of the Government chosen by the Prime Minister.

6. The House of Lords is the elected Chamber in Parliament.

7. The House of Commons is the unelected Chamber in Parliament.

8. Mr В lair's Cabinet belongs to the Conservative Party.

9. Britain is divided into 659 areas, called constituencies, and one MP is elected to represent each constituency.

10. The House of Lords is the highest Court of Appeal in Britain.

3. Find words and expressions in the text which mean:

1. body of persons governing a State;

2. choosing or selection (of candidates for an office, etc.) by vote;

3. the inhabitants of an electoral district;

4. laws enacted by lawmaking body;

5. a person with the right to sit in the House of Lords;

6. a charge by the government on the income of an individual, corporation, or on the value of an estate or gift or property.

4. Answer the following questions:

1. What is the Government?

2. Who are the Cabinet?

3. Who chooses the Government?

4. What is the House of Lords?

5. What is the House of Commons?

6. Who is the Prime Minister?

7. What does Parliament do?

8. What is the highest Court in Britain?

5. Read the text. Give Ukrainian equivalents for the words in bold type. The house of commons

This is the House of Commons, where Members of Parliament take their seats on the green leather benches according to their party and position. From this we get the terms front benches, back benches and cross benches.

The two sides, Government and Opposition, sit facing one ano­ther. If, for example, you sit in the Public Gallery of the House of Commons, you would see the Government sitting to the left of the table. The Opposition parties would be seated on the right. Govern­ment ministers sit on the front bench on the Government side of the Chamber. They are therefore known as Government front-benches. Those MPs who belong to the same party as the Government but who do not hold a Government post are known as Government back­benches. The Official Opposition is divided in the same way. The Opposition consists of all those parties which, as a result of the last general election, are not part of the Government. It is made up of the Official Opposition, the largest Opposition party, and a number of smaller parties. The Labour Party has the largest number of MPs in the House of Commons, having won the most seats in the general election of 1997. The party winning most seats in a general election will form a government and the party leader becomes Prime Minis­ter. As the Conservatives won the general elections of 1979, 1983 and 1992, we had a Conservative Government for eighteen years, with the party leader, firstly Mrs Thatcher, and from November 1990 Mr Major, as Prime Minister. There were Labour Governments from 1964 - 1970,1974 - 1979 and since their election victory in 1997 Mr Blair has chosen a team of ministers to help him, drawn from mem­bers of his own party in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Together they make up the Government.