Mattayomsuksa 5

Topic: Local Government

Unit:

Nation

Vocabulary

councilor(n) : a member

of a council

election(n): the act or power of electing.

ballot paper(n) : a sheet of paper or a card used to cast or register a vote, especially a secret one.

registered (n): a formal or official recording of items, names, or actions.

 candidates(n): a politician who is running for public office

parliament(n.) : a national representative body having supreme legislative powers within the state.

first-past-the-post( n) : voting refers to an election won by the candidate(s)with the most votes. 

Vocabulary

review

Structure

A COMMA SPLICE

a comma splice is the attempt to join two independent clauses with a comma, but without a coordinator.

(1) To join two independent clauses, you must use a coordinator. The coordinators are the correlatives and the coordinating conjunctions.

(Correlatives don't figure into comma splices, so we will not worry about them.) The coordinating conjunctions are and, but, or, nor, yet, and so.

(2) To separate two independent clauses, you must use some form of end-stop punctuation.

Here are all of your possible choices: the period [.], the exclamation point [!], the question mark [?], and the semicolon [;]. (Remember, a semicolon is a weak period, not a strong comma.

Example of COMMA SPLICE:  

I got up late this morning, I didn't have time for breakfast.

Text 3: Local government elections

In a local election, you vote for the councilors who run your local services. Councilors are elected for a term of four years, though in some areas they're not all elected at the same time, so elections may take place more often.Who can vote You can vote in local government elections if you have registered to vote and you are:

•a British citizen living in the UK•a Commonwealth citizen living in the UK•a citizen of the Irish Republic living in the UK•a European Union citizen living in the UK•registered to vote as a Crown Servant•registered to vote as a service voterYou cannot vote in local government elections if you are:• a British citizen living abroad and registered as an overseas voter

How to vote for local authorities

The way you vote for local councilors is similar to voting for Members of Parliament in a general election. In England and Wales, the candidate who gets the most votes wins – this is called a 'first-past-the-post' voting system. When you vote in a local election, the ballot paper will list all the candidates standing to be councilor in your area. You may be asked to vote for more than one candidate, depending on where you live.

In Scotland and Northern Ireland, you will be asked to rank the candidates in order of preference. This is called the 'single transferable vote' system, a form of

proportional representation.

When elections are held Local elections take place at least every four years. There are several types of election, because local authorities are organized in different ways, depending on where you live. Either:

Activity 1What is the meaning?

How to do the activity1. Make a group of 3 . 2. Choose the number picture

in power point to guest meaning and rewriting of the words.

3. If find an orange picture must stop to playing game one time.

4. Which group has most point is the winner

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While 2 - Activity 2 –

Task 1

“Story

renew”

“Story renew” Choose 7 vocabularies. Make short story 2 paragraphs with under topic “England’s local government election”

Remarks: - can image or create the new form of election without the fact (base on your opinion).- try to make sentence from the words (vocabularies) to compose the short story that are relation.

councilors , election, registered, ballot paper, candidates , parliamentfirst-past-the-post

7 Vocabularies

“Story renew”

For example In England, election will be coming soon. England has many parties and Member of Parliament. I haven’t been elected because I’m just totally 18 years old in this year. So I’m exciting for the authority to vote. Before going to vote we must registered………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Post 1 - Activity 3-Task

2: Who can vote?

Think of the local government election in Thailand. Then compare and contrast the person’s property in England and Thailand about the authority to vote, what are similar and different.

Similar DifferentRegistered before

vote.

British citizen living abroad cannot vote in local government elections but Thai we can.

Example

Post 2 - Activity 4 :

“I’m a councillor” If you have won in local

government election in 2012 then you are the councilor or the Member of Parliament. But now Bangkok has flooding problem, write your program, the activity or policy that you want to do for solve this problem.

If I’m a councillor, I will do

1. Support money 5,000 baht per house was been floodwater.2................................................................................................................................................3................................................................................................................................................4................................................................................................................................................

Example

- all of the councilors are elected every four years - half of the councilors are elected every two years - a third of the councilors are elected every year for three years, with no elections in the fourth year