British Electoral Process- Test Your Knowledge OBJECTIVES: To benchmark students’ current political knowledge To open discussion about students’ attitude.

British Electoral Process- Test Your Knowledge

OBJECTIVES:To benchmark students’ current political knowledge

To open discussion about students’ attitude to politics

Quick Discussion:

• What are your immediate thoughts when you think of these words below:

• POLITICS• PARLIAMENT• GOVERNMENT

http://www.parliament.uk/education/teaching-resources-lesson-plans/general-election-60-secs/

Watch the clip below you will need to recall some information to help you with a quiz later

“Guess Who…?”Match the leader’s picture with their names

Ed Miliband Nigel Farage

Nicola Sturgeon

Nick CleggDavid Cameron

Natalie Bennett

Leanne Wood

“Guess Who…?”

Ed Miliband Nigel Farage Nicola Sturgeon Nick Clegg

David Cameron

Natalie BennettLeanne Wood

Interesting Facts• 1. No party has come back into government after just one term of opposition since 1979, when Margaret

Thatcher beat Jim Callaghan. This is what Ed Miliband must achieve.

• 2. No matter what the results are, more than 1 in 10 MPs will be different (as at least 77 of the current ones have said they are standing down)

• 3. To beat Miliband, David Cameron must increase the Tory's share of the vote from 2010. No governing party has managed to do this since 1974. It is something neither Tony Blair nor Margaret Thatcher could achieve.

• 4. Miliband could become the first atheist prime minister of the UK.

• 5. Miliband is the shortest of the three main party leaders at 1.8m. Clegg and Cameron are a statuesque 1.85m, one inch shorter than the tallest ever prime minister, James Callaghan.

• 6. No two prime ministers have ever represented the same constituency.

• 7. Every prime minister has been a white Christian - even Jewish-born Benjamin Disraeli was baptised at age 12.

• 8. Since 1900, every single prime minister, apart from Edward Heath, has been married with children.

• 9. And since 1900, there have been 22 prime ministers.

• 10. But 13 of them have come to power without being voted in at a general election.

Test Your Knowledge Quiz

• Conduct worksheet 1: Test your knowledge quiz.

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