- Observe. 2. Describe the picture. 3. What has happened?
Eyewitness 2
Task 1: Write a description of everything you can see in picture A and picture B. Use as much detail as possible.
Task 2: Write 10-15 lines comparing the two pictures and what they tell us about Swedish and British political traditions.
Task 3 (if you finish early): Compare the scenes in pictures C and D. When and where do you think that they were taken? What is going on?
Picture A (click to enlarge)
Picture B
Picture C
Picture D
1.couch
2.two people
3.lamp
4.flowers
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Task 1
picture A it is big room made of wood also there is symbols engraved in the wooden walls. a throne where the queen of England is sitting with some other high leaders and family members. Behind them there’s a gold big wall and there small steps of stairs leading to the queen. The queen s wearing a long red cape and she is wearing a crown. There is a man with a sword. A big crowd from different nationalized is watching the queen. There is symbols engraved in the throne and in the gold wall. The crowd in the middle is wearing black, white, red and gold clothes.
The people on the far side is wearing more casual clothes. there is two metallic chandelier on the side.
Picture B In the room there is people sitting at the wooden desks. They are looking at a man on the far right side. There is desk on the right with white flowers and the people who sitting at the desk has microphones in front of them at the seat. They guys are wearing suits and the women are dressed up.
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From Leo, Josef and Other
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1. I see: the king and queen of England sitting in their thrones, a very big crowd consisting of people from the middle east, pastors, lifeguards and a lot of different royalties. I see a tiny stairway leading up to the thrones, I see a giant candlestick holding multiple candles, I also see the queen holding a book. Picture b: I see the king of Sweden performing a speech infront of some Swedish politicans, there are flowers across the whole table that he is standing at. Everyone has a paper infront of themselves.
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Picture A: In the picture are a lot of people, priest, politics, queen, prince and princes.
They are in a church. The church seems beautiful. There is a lot of candles. chairs, carpets, papers and a beautiful a wall of gold. The king and queen sitting on the chairs witch is maybe made of gold. The pries have red cloths. Some of the priest wearing black cloths and some of them white cloths and maybe they belong another religion. There are politics from different countries. There is four bodyguards. There is many symbols on the wall. They are coming together to celebrate the opening of parliament.
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Picture A: In the picture are a lot of people, priest, politics, queen, prince and princes.
They are in a church. The church seems beautiful. There is a lot of candles. chairs, carpets, papers and a beautiful a wall of gold. The king and queen sitting on the chairs witch is maybe made of gold. The pries have red cloths. Some of the priest wearing black cloths and some of them white cloths and maybe they belong another religion. There are politics from different countries. There is four bodyguards. There is many symbols on the wall. They are coming together to celebrate the opening of parliament.
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Task 2
The British politician are wearing more traditntal clothes than Swedish politics. The Swedish politician are wearing suits and more modern clothes. The Swedish politician are in big conference room but the British politician however are in expensive room. There is people representing the old people groups like priest and judge. That is not the case in the Swedish politician. One of the difference is that the queen is on focus everyone can see here instantly but in the Swedish politician and the king is not in focus you have to look to find him.
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Adam K och Theodor
Task 1: In picture A you can see Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip sitting on thrones made of gold. In Queen Elizabeths hand you can see a book which indicates she is going to make a speech or read something out loud. There are alot of political important people around the world who is at this gathering, supporting Queen Elizabeth at the house of parlament.
In Picture B you can see political people sitting in Sweden’s parliment listening to one human being in the front making a speech. Everyone is wearing nice clothes, mostly suit and tie.
Task 2: The pictures tell us that Sweden when it comes to politics is more modern than The Great Britain and their way of ruling. The Great Britain
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1.
In the first picture (A), I see a large meeting with approximate 150-200 people in the large local room (This is only in the picture). The crowd is filled with lawyers and guests and they are pointed at a group of people. It seems like to be the king and the queen that is sitting down on the chairs pointed to the crowd, beside them there it looks like they are close, such as family or relatives. The crowd is wearing red cloaks with white collars/black cloaks with black collars and a vig, it seems like to be the lawyers. The guests is wearing either costumes and some are wearing religious clothing. It looks like that you can wear what you want as an guest, since the women are wearing normal dresses it seems like you can wear anything you want. The king and the queen and their relatives are wearing ”kingly and queenly” clothes. They all are dressed the same and sits on the ”golden chairs and walls” that means that the chair is more wealthy. Meaning that the crowd should have respect and listen to them. It looks it is a meeting that has to do with politics.
In the second picture (B), I see a smaller meeting. In the picture I see about 20-30 persons that listen to a guy who has the word. It seems like people are dressed in costumes and some women have dresses, some women even has costumes too. This meeting looks like it has to do with politics. I see that the king of Sweden is holding the meeting.
2.
The clothing are very different and the way you hold a speech to the crowd. The Swedish traditions are more modern than the British political traditions. British people seems to stick to the old traditional way they made in the old days and stick with it, meanwhile Sweden has come through their old times and do the new traditional and modern way. The British people has a lot more people in the parliament than the Swedish people. They still stick to the chivalry way, using swords, candles, crowns, golden walls, relatives that stand together with the king and queen. Meanwhile Sweden has nothing of that, they use microphones to talk and only the king holds the speech infront of the political people.
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Picture B: There is a king in the picture. There are a lot of flowers, microphones, politics, yellow boards, chairs, monitors, and papers in picture B. The king speaks infront of the other politics and the politics watching to the king.
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Task 1
Picture A it is a big room made of wood and there is symbols engraved in the wooden walls. The queen of England is sitting with some other high leaders and family members and behind them is a big gold wall and there small steps of stairs leading to the queen. The queens wearing a long red cape and she is wearing a crown. There is a man with a sword. A big crowd from different nationalized is there and they watching at the queen. There is symbols engraved in the throne and in the gold wall. People in the middle have black, white, red and gold clothes.
Picture B In the room there is people sitting at the wooden desks. They are looking at a man on the far right side. There is desk on the right with white flowers and the people who sitting at the desk has microphones in front of them at the seat.
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Pic A
England
Queen Elizabeth II of England
Important people
Monarchy
Thrones
Book
Golden wall
Red uniforms
White dresses
Crown
Wigs
Paper
Bald spots
Mostly older people
Young boys
Leather seats
Pic B
Sweden
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
Swedish politicians
Desks
White flowers
Blue chairs
Microphones
Papers
Suits
In the picture of England they have older traditions with wigs, uniforms etc. compared to Swedens more modern traditions with suits and microphones. When you compare queen Elizabeth and our king you see some really big differences in the way they handle monarchy It seems more secular in way in the Swedish picture and it looks like they don’t care as much about older traditions during politics which is more comfortable to know in my opinion, even though it’s pretty cool with all the awesome but odd outfits and such. Englands parlament is way more traditional than the Swedish. And as we saw in the youtube clip of the English parlament it’s super loud and in the Swedish parlament it’s super quiet.
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