Comedy for ELT - Immigration and Crime
[To download a free worksheet (+ KEY + Script) just click here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByC3... ] Recently there has been a sharp rise in votes to extreme right-wing parties. How does one fight back? Where arguments do not work, parody often does! This amazing short clip with Rowan Atkinson provides an excellent springboard for discussion! Level: C1-C2 Topic: Politics. [NB: I do not own the copyright to this video file. I have uploaded it here for educational purposes]. SCRIPT My Lords, Ladies, fellow party workers. I am a golfer! But I am also a conservative and Conservatives are back in power! – what a wonderful word… * But with a new initiative and above all a new style… And we are mostly concerned with two main issues: Firstly – immigration. Now people really do get this party wrong every time on this issue, don’t they? We don’t think immigrants are animals, for God’s sake! I know a lot of immigrants personally, and they are perfectly nice people. They’re black of course, which is a shame, * but I say some of them can do some jobs almost as well as white people – we acknowledge this. Now a lot of immigrants are Indians and Pakistanis for instance, and I like curry… * But now that we’ve got the recipe * is there really any need for them to stay? * Conservatives understand these problems you see… Like we understand young criminals – another very emotive issue… This party feels that we’ve been just a little too soft on these… bastards, haven’t we? * Mr White has spoken of the short, sharp, shock treatment and his introduction of the 24,000 V electric chair, at the two Home Office detention centres begins next week * - on a purely experimental basis of course… If it doesn’t work, then of course we will be more than prepared to revert to the old, liberal, wishy – washy, socialist, nigger-loving, red, left-wing, homosexual, commie ways of the recent past… * But, please, let’s have a chance. It may be a tough road, we know. But don’t forget: It is easier for a rich man to pass through the eye of a needle, than it is for a camel to… * than it is for a camel to! *
