Match the 10 law-making terms and their definitions.

Варианты ответов и условие задания

1. Changes to a bill proposed by MPs or members of the House of Lords
2. Amendment
3. MPs or lords who don't hold government office
4. Backbenchers
5. Used for counting those in favour or against emotion when there is a vote in the House of Commons or the House of Lords
6. Division
7. Practice of speaking in a debate for a long time deliberately to waste time. In this way a bill may be stopped from making progress within the time allowed.
8. Filibuster
9. When MPs or lords are not put under any pressure to vote a certain way by their party leaders
10. Free vote
11. The exchanges of amendments to bills between the House of Commons and the House of Lords
12. Ping-pong
13. The right of MPs or Lords to make certain statements within Parliament without being subject to outside influence, including law
14. Parliamentary privilege
15. A proposal for action put forward for debate or decision in the House of Commons or lords
16. Motion
17. The last few days of a Parliament before a general election. All unfinished business must be dealt with swiftly, so the government seeks co-operation from the opposition in dealing with legislation that is still in progress
18. Wash-up
19. The members who count the votes in the House of Commons or House of Lords when there is a division and report the result back to the House
20. Tellers