Ludzie pragną czasami się rozstawać, żeby móc tęsknić, czekać i cieszyć się z powrotem.
- Gaelic is part of the romantic Scottish myth, and most Scots believe it is Scotland's aboriginal language. Gaelic thus enjoys a high cultural status
- Many schools now teach what was once a proscribed language and TV and radio broadcast in Gaelic
46. Foras na Gaeilge (definition)
- a cross-border body known as Foras na Gaeilge was established to promote the language in both Northern Ireland and the Republic (slajd)
Foras na Gaeilge is a public body responsible for the promotion of the Irish language throughout the island of Ireland. The body also serves an advisory role in matters pertaining to the Irish language in both the public and private sectors in the Republic of Ireland (where Irish is the first official language) and Northern Ireland (where Irish is a regional language). It also creates terminology to add to the Irish language.
47. Three examples of the media in British minority languages.
1) BBC Radio Ulster – began broadcasting a nightly half hour programme called Blas (‘taste’) in Irish in the early 1980s
2) BBC Northern Ireland - broadcast its first television programme in Irish in the early 1990’s SRL
3) TG4 – (many areas of Northern Ireland) the Irish-language television channel, which is broadcasting primarily from the Connemara Gaeltacht in the Republic
48. Four examples of immigrant languages (with significant number of users, apart from
Polish)
1.Punjabi (600,000)
2.Sylheti (550,000)
3.Bengali (150,000) (If combined with Sylheti, becomes 700,000, surpasses Punjabi to be number 1)
4.Urdu (400,000)
5.Cantonese (250,000)
6.Malayalam (200,737)
7.Greek (200,000)
8.Italian (200,000)
9.Southwestern Caribbean Creole (170,000)
10.Tamil (160,000)
11.Gujarati (140,000)
12.Kashmiri (115,000)
49. RP (definition, 2 examples of model speakers)
RP - is the standard accent of Standard English in the United Kingdom, with a relationship to regional accents similar to the relationship in other European languages between their standard varieties and their regional forms.
Examples: David Cameron,Boris Johnson
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50. British style of democracy (3 aspects)
British political system -stable unchanged for the last 200 years, High respect for Principle of the law.
No freedom of information act.
A constitutional monarchy.
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51. ‘The constitution’ of Britain (definition)
The constitution - colective name for rule regulation,principle. Some of those rules exit as written laws.
(-zeszyt)
The Constitution of the United Kingdom is the set of laws and principles under which the United Kingdom is governed.
Unlike many other nations, the UK has no single constitutional document. This is sometimes expressed by stating that it has an uncodified or "unwritten" constitution.(-wikipedia)
52. Names of three major political parties with brief descriptions
Conservative and Unionist Party - Earlier known as Tories, stand for hierarchical authority, minimal interference in state of economy, reduce income tax
Liberal Democrats - Strongly in favour of the EU, emphasis on the enviorment, emphasis on community ethics, for grater powers to local governments
Labour Party - Left or center outlook, stands for equality, governmant involvement in economy, voted by working class and middle class intelligentsia
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