Introduction Television viewing is Britain's most popular pastime. The average Briton spends more than three and a ha If hours per day watching television, including videotapes. More than 97 percent of Britain's households have a color television and 73 percent have a videocassette

第一部分：西方关于学习与教学理论的主要派别 第二部分：学习双机制理论与教学模式

Introduction The growth of mass circulation news-papers in Britain was a direct result of the process of industrialisation during the 18th and 19th centuries During the 18th century, newspaper readership had been largely confined to the upper classes and wealthier sections of the middle class

The System of Government Representative Democracy and also known as Parliamentary Democracy Monarch-- Constitutional Monarch What powers does the Queen have?

A1 Development of \Welfare State\ 1. Definition of Poverty 1.1 Absolute Poverty- families without minimum food, clothing and shelter needed for maintenance of merely physical health (concept at beginning of last century)

hapter 10 Beliefs Religious history Around 432 Ireland converted to Christanity by St. Patrick, who brought faith from Rome His followers spread christianity to Wales, Scotland&n. England, established religious centres In Ad 496-7: the Saxons of A. England were converted to

A1 ntroduction Britain's 'mixed economy'-an economy in which there is some public ownership as well as privately owned business

Abstract In Chapter Seven we continue to look at the variety of ways in which people in Britain today spend their leisure time. We especially look at excursions away from home for a short or longer break. But we first look at the transport infrastructure of Great Britain a network of airports, railway lines, motorways and other roads, which, together, connect up the even remotest parts of the country and help to make

A1 Introduction Definition of crime--Crime is behaviour that breaks those rules of a society which are codified in the criminal law. (p131) Crimes are defined and punished by statutes and by the common law oIn changing society the opportunities for people to commit crimes also change. oChanges in patterns of work, in unemployment

Objectives If the family is central to people's lives, surely their next most significant experience is their education. In this chapter we will begin with a brief survey of the development of free universal education since the last century, and then take a closer look at the main institutions in which British people are formally educated