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2.4. Work in groups of four or five. Each group member must take responsibility for the discussion of one question, and make sure that everyone else expresses an opinion on it.

  1. Which of the two politicians do you feel the most sympathy for? Why?

  2. What do you think are the two or three most important qualities for a successful politician?

  3. Do you think politicians should have jobs other than their political jobs?

  4. Do you think politicians should vote the way their party expects them to vote, even if their own opinion is different?

  5. Should Members of Parliament be paid more or less than: doctors, heads of universities, senior executives in industry?

2.5.  “The Prime Minister's pay rise”. Listen to the conversation on tape. The Prime minister is being interviewed about a proposed pay increase for politicians of thirty-five percent.

Go over the vocabulary to avoid any difficulties of understanding.

– inflation

– to justify

– to be in power

– in excess of

– the pressures of the position

– sacrifice

– dedication to duty

Comprehension check

  1. Why was the Prime Minister invited to the studio?

  2. Are people satisfied with the present government and their policy? Why (not)?

  3. How does the Prime Minister justify the situation?

  4. Why does the Prime Minister think that a politician’s pay rise should be five times higher than anyone else’s?

  5. Will the Prime Minister also get an increase of 20 %? Why?

  6. What will the proposed salary be?

  7. Do you agree that Ministers and MPs should get higher pay rises than other people? Why?

  8. Should the Prime Minister be paid more than other ministers?

2.6. You will hear an interview with Margaret Thatcher, who became leader of the Conservative Party in Britain in 1975, and who became Britain’s first woman Prime Minister. In the interview she talks about her interest in Victorian times.

Notes:

Victoria (1819 – 1901), queen of the UK (1837 – 1901). Her marriage to Prince Albert in 1840 had a decisive influence on the character of her reign: she became deeply concerned with the affairs of the nation while not favouring any political party. She won great love and admiration and was a powerful symbol of Britain at the height of its empire.

Victorian – having the qualities and outlook attributed to middle-class people in Britain in the 19th century (self-control, family loyalty, etc.)

Victorian values: thrift, sobriety, hard work

Go over the vocabulary to avoid any difficulties of understanding.

self-reliance

to be next to smth

to live within one’s income

pride in one’s country

perennial values

to adopt

to encompass

deplorable

a sense of duty

a man of property

to hand smth on to smb

the “haves” and the “have-nots”

Comprehension check

  1. What are the Victorian values that Mrs Thatcher admires?

  2. What aspects of Victorian times does the interviewer mention?

  3. Mrs Thatcher believes in private enterprise, and the non-intervention of the state. What examples from Victorian times does she quote that support this view?

  4. What are the advantages that Mrs Thatcher sees in home ownership?

  5. What, according to the interviewer, is it that the ‘have-nots’ cannot do?

What do you think?

  1. From what Mrs Thatcher says, what do you think her attitude is to the following issues: the National Health Service, law and order, borrowing money, unemployment, inflation?

  2. What are the views and policies of the main political parties in your country?