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Print out the
Seating Plan of the current
Parliament and the
list of current MPs.
Organise the class into small groups.
Each group discusses the allocation of seats in Parliament, identifying:
- The Government
- The Opposition
- Minority Parties
- Front benchers
- Back benchers
How does each MP's seat in the House reflect his or her status in their
party?
Who appear to be the nine most important people in Parliament? Why?
Where does your MP rank?
People in Parliament
What roles do the
Speaker
and the Parliamentary officials fill?
Students remain in their groups.
Allocate one of the officials (Speaker, Clerk of the House, Messengers,
Hansard Reporters and
Whips)
to each group.
Students summarise the key aspects of their official on to
Concept of
Definition (CD) Maps and present
their finished maps to the class as a whole.
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under contract to the Ministry of Education.
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