VIII. Correct the following statements:

1. Welfare recipients include only people with mental or physical disabilities.

2. People in the United States most commonly use the term welfare to refer to privately -funded programs that provide economic support, goods, and services to unemployed or underemployed people.

3. Long-term economic changes have also strengthened social support systems, which in turn has increased the need for social welfare programs.

4. In the modern society there is a tendency to live in large extended families.

5. The need for social welfare programs has increased long-term economic changes and has weakened social support systems.

IX. Answer the following questions:

1. Who do welfare recipients include?

2. What is meant by the term ‘social welfare’?

3. Why do governments establish welfare systems?

4. Why have welfare programs aroused heated public debate lately?

5. How have long-term economic changes affected the structure of the family?

6. What problems have these changes caused?

X. Make a brief summary of the text.

Text VII Child Welfare

I. Practice the pronunciation of the following words:

Bureau, adequate, survival, categorized, agency, to furnish, guidance, through, disturbed, to require, to remove, temporary, subsidy, physically handicapped, developmentally disadvantaged, emotionally disturbed, delinquent.

II. Learn the following derivatives and use them in the sentences of your own.

1. To contribute (содействовать, способствовать) – contribution;

2. To adapt (приспосабливать, адаптировать) – adaptation;

3. To incline (иметь склонность) – inclination;

4. To recognize (признавать) – recognition;

5. To affirm (подтверждать) – affirmation;

6. To amend (вносить поправки) – amendment;

III. Fill in the blanks with the proper preposition and translate the sentences:

1. Substitute;

1. The scientists are looking for a substitute … rubber. 2. He substituted an identical bag … the one he had stolen. 3. Is anyone substituting … the doctor while he is away?

2. Similar;

1. He drives a similar car … mine. 2. You reproduction is similar … hers. 3. I don’t think my intentions are similar … my boss’s.

3. Available;

1. He has quite a sum of money available … investment. 2. He’s never available … us when we want him. 3. How long do you have to wait the car to be available … us?

IV. Transform the following sentences from the Active Voice into the Passive Voice:

1. The Government adapts child-welfare programs to the needs of children whose families do not have the means or the inclination to take proper care of them.

2. Governments made few efforts to protect the health and welfare of children before the 20th century.

3. The Government of the United States conducts a variety of child-welfare service programs under public and private auspices (покровительство, патронаж).

4. We can categorize child-welfare service programs as support services, supplementary programs, or substitute care.

5. A public agency takes investigation and appropriate action concerning child abuse and protection.