Аннотация:Teaching English as a foreign language to the studends of Philology in a classroom through the prism of history and culture needs updating as far as the general mode of exposition is concerned. Traditionn dictates the selection of the best representatives of style, great figures epitomizing genious and success. Their personal identity is never put at risk of critical/ analytical viewing an debate. Now their personal integrity, manliness and word of honour should be objectively revisited and revised.