ESL Podcast 573 - Discussing Social Class

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ESL Podcast 573 - Discussing Social Class

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- plot:
Hector tells Sophia that he feels annoyed and insulted when James keeps talking about Social classes, and criticizing the middle class and upper class people.

- Vocabulary, phrases, and idioms:
1) holier-than-thou: an expression to describe sb who thinks they are better than another person.
2) downright: an adverb to emphasize sth, usually used for an negative adjective. Basically here it means "very."
3) marginalized: people who feel unimportant, who do not have any power perhaps because of the race or being less education.
4) to get worked up: to get angry; to get annoyed; to have very negative emotional reactions.
5) to get a rise out of sb: to make sb react strongly, usually by getting them angry about sth or upset.
6) to not see eye to eye: to disagree with sb; to not have the same opinion as sb.
7) to know which buttons to push: to know what wil make another person react in a certain way.
8) to do one's share: to help.
9) to have a chip on one's shoulder: cannot forgive sb for sth happened in the past that you feels angry. = to hold a grudge
10) under one's own roof: in one's home.

Comments:
  I think this website is good for ESL elementary and intermediate learners. In every conversation and explanation, the speed is slow and the pronunciation is very clear. The speaker will explain the vocabulary, phrases, and idioms which are even quite useful to me. Also, he explain the meaning of every sentence clearly; for instance, the speaker has explained the joke that Sophia makes in the last sentence of this conversation. For some new learners who cannot really understand the meaning of it, this really helps.
  All in all, I do think this is a good website for English learning, but not that suitable for we intermediate-high students due to the slow speed of conversation and explanation which really make me sleepy!