Sovereign
The Queen is head of government,
she makes laws with Parliament
and she is head of the courts
GOVERNMENT PARLIAMENT

Cabinet House of Lords House of Commons

Chairman: Prime Minister Chairman: Lord Chancellor Chairman: Speaker
Ministers Treasury Lords Temporal MP’s (650 MP’s)
Foreign Office Spiritual (26 bishops)

Home Office Law Lords (20 Lords)
Ex. 7. Make up 7 sentences and try to say each of them by heart:
1. The Queen is officially …
2. Parliament consists of …
3. The Prime Minister is …
4. The Cabinet includes …
5. The House of Lords consists of …
6. Members of the House of Commons
are elected by …
7. The Lords of Appeal (Law Lords)
become …
| 1) life peers on their judicial appointments.
2) the Lords Temporal and the Lords Spiritual.
3) the ministers in charge of major government
departments.
4) the voters of 650 constituencies.
5) head of all three branches: the executive
one, the legislative one, the judicial one.
6) the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
7) the leader of the Government.
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Ex. 8. Answer the questions:
1. Which of these people are elected: a peer, an MP, a civil servant, the Prime Minister?
2. What is the difference between life peers and hereditary peers, Lords Temporal and Lords Spiritual?
3. What are civil servants?
4. Which areas of government do these people deal with: the Lord Chancellor, the Home Secretary, the Law Lord?
5. What differences are there between Parliament and the Government?
Text 2.