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The British always like to talk about what class # a person's # is a person in.
A lot of people think they aren't in #some # any class — but the British can always # put # to put them in #it! # one!
The class you're in comes from the work # that #what you do and the work that your parents # done. # did.
Factory workers, miners, waiters and shop assistants are the working classes.
Cousins # of # from the Queen, people who live in castles and everyone # whose # who family has # be # been rich # for # since more than a hundred years are the upper classes.
Between the working classes #to # and the upper classes, there are # millions of # millions people.
These are the middle classes, and they're the people who # are talking # talk most about class.
A lot of them are # businessman, # businessmen, doctors, teachers and lawyers.
They # tell # say that they're the upper middle class, and think they're # much # very better #as # than the lower middle class.
The lower middle class is the class # from # of shopkeepers, clerks and skilled workmen.
All this is # called # call the class system.
# It # It's started in Britain about a hundred
# fifty # and fifty years ago, and the British # haven't seen # didn't see yet that the world today is different # as # from the world a hundred and fifty # years # years ago.
Workmen
# don't # doesn't like their bosses, and bosses don't like their workmen; but, if you ask them why, they'll tell # to you # you that they don't like # each other # another because their grandfathers # didn't like # haven't liked each other.
The British think they can always # to tell # tell someone's class when they # hear # listen him talking.
They # listen # listen to his accent, and then they # say: # says: "Yes, he # says # speaks working-class English," or "He speaks very good English.
I think
# he comes # he's coming from an upper-class family.
" Working-class people usually
# are speaking # speak with the accent of the town where # they live. # do they live.
Most of them, say "at" for hat and "ungry" for hungry: # while # when they do this, the British say that they're dropping their hs.
The middle classes speak the English that a foreigner # teaches, # learns, but, when they want # be # to be polite, they try # to speak # speak like the upper classes.
The upper classes speak with their mouths # near # nearly closed; their English is like English # spoken #spoke under water!
A lot of people go from one class to another, and then they try # to change # change their accent.
But they can't often hide their old accent, and you can usually # tell # to tell which class they # come. # come from.
People usually try #to go # go up # in # into a higher class; but today the British think it's very good to # born # be born in the working classes.
So a lot of middle-class teachers, writers and politicians try to speak like the working classes.
They # tell # say people
# they were # they've born poor and have worked # hard. # hardly.
Today, the upper classes # aren't having # haven't got much money.
They must #pay #to pay large taxes, and it's very expensive # to # for repair their big houses and castles.
So they show their homes # to tourist # to tourists to make # too much # enough money to # pay # pay for their bills.
But the wages of the working classes get # biggest # bigger every year, # because # although there aren't enough people to work in the factories.
The working-class man often has a bigger car and better clothes
# than # as the upper-class man!