I. Answer the following questions:

1. What was the main purpose of Margaret Thatcher’s coming to Office?

2. Were there any changes on Margaret Thatcher’s entering Office? If there were

any what are they?

3. What was Britain under Margaret Thatcher?

4. What was the reason of the strike in 1984?

5. Why did Margaret Thatcher reject any form of political or economic

integration with Europe?

6. Express your opinion as for Margaret Thatcher’s policy.

7. What points of her policy do you consider successful?

II. State whether the following statements are true or false. Correct the false ones.

1. Margaret Roberts was born on 13^th November 1926.

2. Margaret Roberts had a sister, Muriel.

3. In 1943 Margaret became the president of the Cambridge University

Conservative Association.

4. Margaret married George Thatcher in 1951.

5. In 1959 Margaret Thatcher was elected member of parliament for Finchley,

near London.

6. Mrs. Thatcher was elected leader of the Labour Party in 1975.

7. Mrs. Thatcher was the first woman to become prime minister of Great Britain.

8. The war passed without difficulties.

9. Margaret Thatcher’s monetarist program called for deregulation.

10. The miners’ strike in 1984 was led by Geoffrey Howe.

11. “Bruges Speech” took place in 1988.

12. Restrictions were not placed on many forms of industrial action.

13. “Poll Tax” was an attempt to replace the old rates.

14. The government’s control of the money supply can claim less success.

15. Control of the money supply seemed easy in the best of times.

III. Complete the following sentences:

1. Together with Keith Joseph …

2. The British press gave …

3. Margaret and Muriel were brought up in…

4. Margaret married Denis Thatcher after…

5. Edward Heath’s election loss was caused by…

6. The year-long miners’ strike was…

7. The restrictions of the power were placed on…

8. Ten weeks later Argentina surrendered…

9. In 1984 the Irish Republican Army (IRA)…

IV. Supply the information from the text corresponding to each date.

1925
1943
1970
1979
1982
1984
1988
1990
1992

V. Choose the correct variant.

1. Margaret Roberts was born in the town of …

1. London;

2. Edinburgh;

3. Grantham.

1. Margaret was educated at …

   1. a Voluntary school;

   2. Kesteven & Grantham Girls’ School;

   3. a mixed school.

2. Mrs. Thatcher had been appointed parliamentary secretary at the Ministry of Pensions in…

   1. 1960;

   2. 1961;

   3. 1962.

3. The Thatchers gave birth to twins in…

   1. 1951;

   2. 1952;

   3. 1953.

4. Margaret became the president of…

   1. Oxford University;

   2. Cambridge University;

   3. the Oxford University Conservative Association.

5. Argentina began to invade the neighbouring Falkland Islands in …

   1. 1982;

   2. 1971;

   3. 1981.

6. What Margaret Thatcher wanted to reverse?

   1. Capitalism;

   2. Socialism;

   3. Communism.

7. Alongside privatisation, … lay at the heart of Margaret Thatcher economic

plan.

1. Economic decline;

2. Industrial actions;

3. Trade union reform.

1. In November 1990 former cabinet member … stood against the prime minister

in the Conservative Party leadership ballot.

1. Michael Heseltine;

2. Geoffrey Howe;

3. Arthur Scargill.

1. In 1992 Margaret Thatcher was made a …

   1. Queen;

   2. Baroness;

   3. Prime Minister