Introduction Does our age affect the way we vote? And do our political views change as we get older? It's what Sam and Neil are discussing in 6 Minute English - as well as teaching some related vocabulary. This week's questionWhat was the first UK general election in which 18-year-olds could vote? A: 1929
B: 1950, or
C: 1970 Listen to the programme to find out the answer. Vocabularyplausible
believable, possible resistant to
against idealistic
having a clear and simple moral view of how things should be platform
the policies of a political party or politician the status quo
the situation as it is now pragmatism
the idea of being realistic and practical about what can be achieved. Transcript Note: This is not a word for word transcript
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