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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 573: Discussing Social Class.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 573. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

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This episode is called “Discussing Social Class.” It’s a dialogue between Hector and Sophia using a lot of vocabulary related to talking about people at different social and economic levels in a country. Let’s get started.

Hector: Can you believe James? All evening, he tried to tell me how this country would be better if we had no social classes. He’s out of his mind.

Sophia: He was just trying to get a rise out of you. We all know that the two of you don’t see eye to eye.

Hector: He thinks that just because he comes from a working-class background, he