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Government

Hilary Benn, who is the minister of Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. There are three responsibility of it .
Firstly, it bear overall responsibility for all Departmental issues.
Secondly it represent the UK at the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council and at the EU Environment Council.
Thirdly, it lobby for the UK in other international negotiations on sustainable development and climate change.

Lord Adonis, who is the minister of Secretary of State for Transport.
Their responsibility are make the transport more safe and more econmy in UK.

David Miliband the man of Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
They promoting the interests of the United Kingdom overseas.

Yvette Cooper is the minister of Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
They are responsible for the Department for work and pensions.

Bob Ainsworth is the minster of Secretary of State for Defence.
It is the senior United Kingdom government minster in charge of the Ministry of Defence, chairing the Defence Council. It is a Cabinet position.

Alan Johnson is the minster of Home Secretary for the Home Office.
It is responsible for internal affairs within England and Wales, and for immigration and citizenship for the whole of the United Kingdom.

Andy Burnham it the minster of Secretary of State for Health.
It is responsible for the Department of Health.

Alistair Darling is the minster of Chancellor of the Exchequer.
He is responsible for all economic and financial matters.

Gordon Brown it the Prime Minister of UK.
He has accountable for their policies and actions to the Sovereign, to Parliament, to their political party, and ultimately to the electorate.

National Assembly for wales

I visited the National Assembly last week, and the trip was very interesting.

Senedd, which is the building for national assembly, it opened for everyone in Wales. It is a sustainable building almost for everything, for example, heating, water flashing, and its meterials.

The national assembly was hold at the underground of the senedd.There are 60 assembly members now and we saw MR Frank who is one of the assembly member on that day, what a pleasure! Mr Morgan, the first minster of Wales, at the meeting the minsters discuss the important things in Wales, such as the econmy, the health, the transpotation and so on.

Though the short trip i learn a lot, saving energe, this word is always kept in people's mind. I think we should consider about what should we do to save the environment

Halloween

It is a expecially festival on October 31st in UK, in that day people dresses all kinds of strage dress like ghosts, witches. Why people do that? there is a legend about Halloween, It is said that on the night before the new year , the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred.The ghosts of the dead returned to earth! It is sound like a evil and terrible night, however it is not. It is a funny night you can see people dressed as a vampire or wesewolf. Find a party and join them!

Economics and the EU

As a old story told us it is weak when you was along, but it is strong when people get together. EU which is European Commission aim at create effective competitivenes and boost financial for member states.

Energy liberalisation, it seems a good news for consumers, gas and electricity market in all EU are already opened on 2007 July, 1st.

Modernisation of the EU’s competition rules:At this time the rules were made for business in indusrial cooperations.

Single European Sky：To protect the enviroment EU delated some air line it is benifit to industry and business.

This kind of win-win combination is not infrequent ,however, EU is the most successfull one. I hope EU could get a steady develop.

British history

There are lot of mystery stories in the world,Stonehenge is one of them which stand on British for 500,000 years.In 500,000 years ago people used it to an ancient temple,at that time is the stone age,people used stone tool to hunt and fish but it is very strage that how can the old people move the huge stone together?

Till today we can visite it.It is a beautiful place expecially at dusk.The sunlight made the shadow of the stone become a beautiful shape.

The four nations of Britain

Every country have their own plant which is means lot to them.British whitch is compose by four nations England,Wales,Scotland and Ireland.The England's plant is rose and it means love and passion(red);purity(white);happiness(pink);infidelity(yellow),the most important meaning is i love you.

The next nation is Wales and the plant is leek or daffodil.In the middle east time,leed was brought by Roman,the people want to commemorate the army of Welshmen who get the victory in an ancient war,so the welshmen put leed to the plant of their nation.As to daffodil it bloom on March first when is patron saint of Wales, St. David.

Scotland,the plant is thistle and people want to remember the old story of thistle then put thistle to naitional plant.

The Ireland's plant is shamrock which only have three leaves,three was a mystical number in the Celtic religion.The plant is also a sign of rebellion.

British weather

It is an interesting topic when someone talk about the British weather.The weather in British can often change.It can sunny at the moment and raining at next minute,so before i came to British the friends here always told me bring an umbrella when i walking the street.
But what made the weather in British variously? The answer is the ocean.The ocean can influence British weather when summer comes hot it can cool for British , oppositly it can warm when winter comes.
The rainfull in British is also various. It can reach the top at winter which is 80 millimetres and often at 45 millimetres during July.
British is also protected by the sea, the sea was protected them in the world war two.

The British Isles

I have a lecture named Contemporary British Studies today which told me lots of geography knowledge of UK.



On the lecture i knew there is over 60 million pupulation now and The Queen was live in the Buckongham Palace.

Here is the capital of some important place:

Scotland: Edinburgh

Walles:Cardiff

Northern Ireland: Belfost



And i also get some slung here:
colloquial word usual word
a quid 1pound
a fag a cigarette
a cuppa a cup of tea
a loo a toilet
a telly a television set
plonk a cigarette
a kip a sleep
a brolly an umbrella

THAT IS WHAT I LEARN FROM THE LUCTURE