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Two Ps and a WC


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Either: arrange for students to access Scoop's Scoop Interactive pages with photographs of the Government and the Opposition.

Or: provide students with images of New Zealand's Parliament in session.

In pairs or small groups the students analyse at least one photograph using 2Ps and a WC.

Puzzle Wonder
Predict Clarify

Puzzle questions/statements could include:
What is happening here?
Who are these people?
What are they doing?

Wonder question/statements could include:
I wonder why some of those seats are empty?
I wonder who those people sitting up in the high seats are?
I wonder who that man in the big chair is?
I wonder which ones are the list members?

Predict statements could include:
I bet they end up calling each other names.
I predict they will vote on something?

Clarify statements could include:
People on this side are the Government or majority group.
The Opposition is the parties that didn't get enough votes to become government?





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