Social Class

According to www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk, there are three different types of social classes in the UK:

The British Social Class System

The British society has often been considered to be divided into three main groups of classes:

• the Upper Class
  Often people with inherited wealth. Includes some of the oldest families, with many of them being titled aristocrats.
• the Middle Class
  The majority of the population of Britain. They include industrialists, professionals, business people and shop owners.
• Lower or Working Class
  People who are agricultural, mine and factory workers.

The girls in video have their own different life styles, the working class girl just do some basic aspects to support her to live. But the urban class girl has more chances to live in different types of life styles such as attend some parties, do some extra activities. Different types of social classes have their own specialties. For example, the working classes have a clear aim to finish, they need to earn the money and manage their life carefully, they always have no many requirements for their life, and just happy day by day are they looking forward to. The urban class has their own specialty as well, most of them always regard their identities in the society, and they have many aspects need to consider as well.

Reference: http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/class.htm (2011)

Crime and Punishment

Law and punishment are two main weapons we have to fight against crime,without which our life will be on the edge of crash.Punishment could be compared as a sword,it protect us from the crime and warn thoses who plan to do the bad things.On the other hand punishment could leave the criminals a good lesson in order to rebuild them into good people.Both facts prove that punishment has a irreplaceable effect on reducing the crimes.So that is why punishment is  indispensable. However, the British government provide a good system of crime and punishment, there is no death penalty in British punishment, and the british government punish the criminals in the right way such as do the Social volunteers for society.Punishment could be compared as a sword,it protect us from the crime and warn thoses who plan to do the bad things.On the other hand punishment could leave the criminals a good lesson in order to rebuild them into good people.Both facts prove that punishment has a irreplaceable effect on reducing the crimes.So that is why punishment is  indispensable.

Reference: http://lcjb.cjsonline.gov.uk/

Sports in the UK

As we all know, Britian has the biggest football league and many famous teams such as Manchester, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal. Although China has a league as well, the Chinese attitude to football can not be the same with British people. In Britian, the majority of males always have a team to support, and they do not want miss any match of this team. It is clear to see British people have put their soul into the football, and loving this sport.


Next major event in the UK is Wimbledon Championships. It is a tennis match that is held in july. The major court of this match is Centre court, and it locate in London.

The National Health Service

The National Health Service is a self-governed department that not controlled by government. It also provides many benefits to residents living in the Britain. For instance, the treatment at NHS hospital is free for all British residents and they also provide the high-quality healthcare for people. Next, The National Health Service also provide a wide family healthcare that is responsible by GPs, GP is stand for General Practitioner, they are responsible for the healthcare of every part of the UK. If people feel not well, they can contract their GPs at first time.

It is clear to see NHS is a significant system that help british residents'daily health.


Reference: www.nhs.uk (2011)

The Welfare System

Welfare system is started by department of Work and Pensions agencies all over the country,  they have made the strategies and aimed at:

• people who receive benefit
• people who need help to get work
• disabled people
• older people
• people who get the State Pension.

The Department for Work and Pensions is very significant for the government, they are responsible for giving the benefits to workers and it is the most expensive system. For instance, the women at 60 or the men at 65 that they could get relatively low state retirement pensions. 

The welfare system also bring some benefits to particular people, for example, according to directgov (2010) ,"There are two separate amounts, with a higher amount for your eldest (or only) child. You get £20.30 a week for your eldest child and £13.40 a week for each of your other children."

Reference:

 Directgov.com (2010) What is Child Benefit?. Available at: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/ChildBenefitandChildTrustFund/Childbenefits/Gettingstarted/ChildBenefitandwhoqualifies/DG_073770 (Accessed: 21/05/11).

DWP.gov.uk (2011) Homepage. Available at: http://www.dwp.gov.uk/. (Accessed: 21/05/11).

Media - TV

After i getting this topic, i try to observe the channel on the television, i found many channels on TV such as BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, CHANNEL 4 and CHANNEL 5.

BBC channel report many news candidly and include some international news as well, there are many different programmes on these channel such as BBC News, Asia Today ， Hard Talk, Earth Report, Weekend World, This week and so on.

ITV channel play some variety shows and some people interested in.

Channel 4 and 5 play some programme about music and technology.

The CCTV has 13 channels in china, it stand for the China Central Television. It is the most popular channel in china. It is a channel that is controlled by government, so it is difficult to watch some bad news about government from this channel.

Different CCTV channel plays different programmes. For instance, CCTV1 2 3 4 plays the news, CCTV 5 is a sport channel, CCTV 6 is a movie channel and CCTV 7 is a child channel. There are almost 4 hours advertising time for each channel.


Reference: http://cctv.cntv.cn/

Some Differences between British education and Chinese education

In China, there are state school and private school to be chose by students. Most students go to state school for thier education.But some rich students could go to state school or private school as well. Because the fees always very expensive in the private school.

There is a big difference between chinese education and British
education is the different terms in one year. Chinese school always arrange two long terms in a year, each term has 4 mounth's duration. But british school has 3 terms each year.

We can see many differences between chinese and british education system, most students in china think the british education system is an open and pluralistic study system. But chinese education put more emphasize on the examination and use the examination to reference the students' point.