5. Replace the italicized parts with the words and word-combinations from the functional vocabulary.

1. Each person can make a difference to the world through cooperation with others.

2. Most people are eager to be dignified and to have a purpose in life.

3. The country is mixed up in a public debate on standards in public life, ethics in business and education, violence in the media and collapse in the family.

4. Moral philosophers, social analysts and politicians are all involved into the fight.

5. The incidence of teenage deaths caused by drugs has been soaring in the last decades.

6. The spread of permissiveness would lead to family breakdown.

6. Translate into English, make use of the functional vocabulary.

1. за революционными изменениями в общественной жизни в 60-х г. XX в. последовал экономический спад.

2. Супружеские измены, насилие, грабежи, жестокое обращение с детьми, рост смертности среди подростков, употребляющих наркотики, вызвали нарастающую волну гнева, отчаяния, протеста в обществе.

3. Традиционные авторитеты – родители, школа, церковь, семья, общество – утратили свое влияние на подростков.

4. Философия эгоцентризма является, по убеждению многих ученых мужей, оправданием всех антисоциальных поступков, создавая тем самым глубокие противоречия между свободой и принуждением, правами и обязанностями.

Speech activities

1. Answer the following questions. Make use of the supplementary texts “Who needs morals?”, “Parents are too permissive with their children nowadays”.

1. What lies at the heart of moral re-armament?

2. What is to be yourself for you? Is it the same as “do what you want as long as you don’t harm anyone else”?

3. What are the issues of a public debate in Britain? Are these concerns similar to those of your society?

4. How can you characterize the morality of the present-day British society? Prove your opinion by giving arguments from the text.

5. What has brought the society to this mess? How much is the family responsible for the orderly situation in our society? Do you defend the Victorian attitude to children?

6. What is the opinion of a “Youth of Today” member on morality and moral education, in particular?

7. Can a permissive society become a civilized society?

8. What is referred to moral values?

2. Do you agree with the following statements? Make use of the texts “Who needs morals?” “Parents are too permissive with their children nowadays”.

1. Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike (O. Wilde).

2. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo (H. G. Wells).

3. Lax authority over the years makes adolescent rebellion against parents all the more violent.

4. The dividing-line between permissiveness and sheer negligence is very fine indeed.

Listening comprehension

1. You will hear an interview with Mrs M.Thatcher. Before listening study the following vocabulary.

Victorian values	Викторианские моральные ценности
haves	имущие
have-nots	неимущие
to encompass	заключать

2. Listen to the interview with Mrs. M. Thatcher carefully and do the following tasks.

• make up a list of Victorian values that Mrs. Thatcher admired;

• speak about the improvements made in the standards of living during Victorian times.

3. Listen to the interview another time and explain the following statements.

• every person should be a man/woman of property (why is it so important?);

• most kinds of advantages are only offered to the haves, not to the have-nots;

• life would have been very much different for many of our old folk if the money they’d put aside had kept its value (inflation, force majeur circumstances).

4. Answer the following questions.

• What does Mrs. Thatcher refer to Victorian values?

• What negative aspects of life did Victorian times encompass?

• How does Mrs. Thatcher describe an excellent society?

• Does Mrs. Thatcher sound sorry about the unemployed?

• What does inflation cause?

5. Discuss in groups of 3–4 the following questions and present the results of your discussion to the other groups in class.

1. What empowers us to change the world?

2. What are the challenges of moral re-armament?

3. How much have Victorian values changed? Are these changes applicable to your society?

4. How much different are moral values of the youth from those of the older generation?

5. Who should impart moral values?

Section 2. The Role of Charity in Moral Re-armament

Starter activity

How much do you know about charity? Have you ever participated in any charity work? (Tell us about it.) Is voluntary work a positive feature of any society? How is it related to moral re-armament?