122 Read the facts below and guess which countries they are about. Brazil the USA Indonesia New Zealand India Iceland READING + SPEAKING 1 a Unit 09 Make a change! In this unit you will: find out about the subject ‘government and politics’ improve your linking skills hear about new ways to organise political power decide if you should follow the leader learn about volunteering Research some more ‘fun facts’ about politics at home and make one up. Then present them to your class and let your classmates guess which ones are real and which ones are fake. b Since 2001 it has been customary for the President of to ‘pardon’ a turkey, which means that this particular turkey gets a name and is not going to end up on the traditional Thanksgiving dinner table. A The country of has had debates about changing its flag, which looks too similar to its neighbouring island’s flag. In 2016, the country held a public flag design competition and received 10,000 suggestions. D has a long-standing tradition of introducing mock candidates in their elections. The most famous one was a rhinoceros which was voted into the city council of São Paulo in 1959. F In , the government banned full-strength beer until 1989. Drinking beer was seen as unpatriotic until then. E In 2023, successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon in an area no other mission had reached before. It was only the fourth country in the world to land a craft on the moon. C Though no one can quite agree on the number, around 18,000 islands make up the Republic of , which is the third-largest democracy in the world. B Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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