6 Culture video worksheet

UK Youth Parliament
1   In pairs, ask and answer the questions.
1 What is the legal age you can vote in your country?
Has this always been the same age? Was it always
the same for men and women?
2 Do you think the legal age you can vote in your
country is the right age? Should it be older or
younger? Why?
2   Watch the video. Choose the correct answer:
A, B, C or D.
1 Young people can vote when they are in the UK.
A 14 B 16 C 18 D 21
2 The teenagers in the film want a bigger part in
A local and national politics.
B the European Union.
C national government.
D education policies.
3 At the Oxfordshire Youth Parliament they are
discussing
A national rules.
B local politics.
C school homework rules.
D government spending.
4 UK Youth Parliament members are called
A MEPs. C MYPs.
B MIPs. D Mini-MPs.
5 Young people in each area of the UK
A don’t believe in members of youth parliament.
B elect members of youth parliament.
C pay their member of youth parliament.
D think young people should be able to vote at 16.
GLOSSARY

contribution (n) wkład, udział

6 Members of Youth Parliament elect (v) wybierać (np. prezydenta)
A can give speeches in schools. influence (v) mieć wpływ
B are not taken seriously by government. involved (in something) (adj)
zaangażowany (w coś)
C can vote in general elections.
tax (n) podatek
D can influence the government.
unfair (adj) niesprawiedliwy
3   Watch the video again. Match the sentence halves 1–7 with a–h. vote (v) głosować
1 Some teenagers think that if you pay taxes, you
2 The teenagers at the Oxfordshire Youth Parliament meeting want
3 The Oxfordshire teenagers
4 The UK Youth Parliament
5 Young people who want to be MYPs
6 Some young people think that politicians
7 MYPs can change government policy on youth matters
a has more than 600 MYPs.
b should be able to vote.
c talk to local politicians about their ideas.
d without being able to vote.
e to get more involved in politics.
f don’t listen to them because they are too young.
g visit schools and talk about their ideas before the youth elections.

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4 Use a dictionary to help you complete the table with the correct part
of speech. Then choose 3 words and make sentences with them.
verb noun adjective
1
(dis) belief (un)2
3
contribute X
4
involve involved
5 6
politicise
7 8
elected
9 10
influence
11
X young
X (un)fairness (un)12

5 Match the sentence halves.

1 If you didn’t have to go to school every day, what
2 I wouldn’t be bored if I
3 If more young people had voted in the election, then
4 What would you have done if the police
5 She’d have called you if
6 If I’d thought you’d have been so upset,
7 I wish I hadn’t told you because
8 He wouldn’t have applied for the job if
a now I’ve upset you.
b didn’t have to go to school.
c would you do?
d she’d thought you could help.
e he’d known there was going to be so much
travelling.
f I wouldn’t have told you.
g hadn’t turned up so quickly?
h the results would have been very different.
6 THINK AND SHARE   In pairs. First read the
questions. Then talk to your partner.
1 In the video, the Oxford MYPs were discussing
some of the following issues:
agriculture defence education environment  Imagine you are a tour guide in the Youth
health  housing and homelessness  debt  Parliament you have researched. Role-play a
public safety transport unemployment
Which 3 issues do you think the government
should prioritise? Why and what do you think they
should do?
2 Are there any issues in the list above that you think
your government spends too much/enough/not
enough money on? Why?
Online research
In groups. Choose one of the tasks and find
information about it on the Internet.
1 Choose one of the following and find out more
about it: the UK, Polish or European Youth
Parliaments. Find out
• how you can get involved
• its history, important dates/significant
achievements
• current debates
tour around the seat of parliament, answering a
tourist’s questions.
2 Choose an issue from Ex. 6 that you feel strongly
about. Find out about
• the background and causes of the issue
• how people are affected now
• how people will be affected in the future if
nothing changes
• what you’d like the government to do to
resolve the issue and why
Imagine you are an MYP speaking in the European
Youth Parliament. Use the information you have
gathered to prepare and give a speech to your
class about your cause.

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