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What do the British always like to talk about?
# What class is a person in.
# What class a person's in.
Who are the upper classes?
# Rich people, cousins of the Queen and people who live in castles.
# Factory workers, miners, waiters and shop assistants.
How long has there been a class system in Britain?
# A hundred and fifty years ago.
# For a hundred and fifty years.
How can the British tell someone's class?
# By his accent.
# "Yes, he speaks working-class English."
How do the working classes drop their As?
# They say happle for apple.
# They say ead for head.
How do the middle classes try to speak when they want to be polite?
# They try to speak like the upper classes.
# They try to speak the English that a foreigner learns.
Why do people change their accent?
# Because they've gone from one class to another.
# So that they can go from one class to another.
Who do the upper classes show their homes to?
# To pay their bills.
# To tourists.
Why are the upper classes poor?
# Because they show their homes to tourists.
# Because they need to repair their homes and to pay large taxes.
Everyone whose family has been rich for more than a hundred years
# everyone whose family was rich more than a hundred years ago
# everyone whose family has been rich since more than a hundred years ago
They're the people who talk most about class.
# They talk more about class than other people.
# They talk about most of the classes.
They say that they're the upper middle class.
# They say: "We're the upper middle class."
# They say: "They're the upper middle class."
The British haven't seen yet that the world today is different.
# The British don't often see that the world today is different.
# The British haven't seen that the world today is different; perhaps one day they will.
They don't like each other.
# Bosses don't like other bosses; and workmen don't like other workmen.
# Workmen don't like their bosses; and bosses don't like their workmen.
The middle classes speak the English that a foreigner learns.
# The middle classes speak the English that's taught to foreigners.
# The middle classes speak the English that foreigners teach.
You can usually tell which class they come from.
# You can usually say: "They come from the working classes" or "They come from the
middle classes."
# You can usually ask: "Which class do you come from? "
They tell people they were born poor.
# They say: "My children are poor."
# They say: "When I was born, I was poor."
It's very expensive to repair their big houses and castles.
# It costs a lot of money to repair their houses and castles.
# They need to repair their expensive houses and castles.