Divided Britain

The British Class system

1: Social class - Glossary

2: The British Class System Glossary

3: The British Class System

3: Tasks

Poverty in the UK

4: Broken Britain - Britain in Unchartered Territory

5: Poverty investigation

Individual work: Watch the video while you jut down notes.

Pairwork: Try to characterize these people living on the breadline.

6: Number of people in poverty in working families hits record high

The Grenfell Tower Fire

Here's a simple task for your group: Watch the video and explain what poverty has to do with it.

Use at least 10 pieces of information from the video. It may be screenshots, quotes, very short sequences, etc...

Awful events stir powerful emotions. We'll listen to and analyse Ben Okri's poem.

8: Grenfell fire

9: Are u U or non-U?

Read the Tatler article (9) and use all of the materials that you have seen in class and all of your notes to explain what you have learned about social classes in the UK. Remember your glossary.

Topic focusses on the British Class system, inequality, poverty

Glossary:

Capital, Labor, Disposable income, Leisure Class, Quality of life, Education, Social mobility, Culture, Social status, Class consciousness, politics, poverty

Spacey, John: “11 Characteristics of the British Class system”, Simplicable.com, 2020, https://simplicable.com/en/social-class-characteristics

Stephen Liddell: "History of social classes and does class matter?” 2013, https://stephenliddell.co.uk/2013/04/06/history-of-social-classes-and-does-class-matter/

Various youtube videos on class, manners and accents/dialects

Poverty investigation – students do research and presentations on poverty in the UK

FERNE WALLIS: ”Broken Britain: The UK is now in unchartered territory”, 2021, https://www.shoutoutuk.org/2021/01/11/broken-britain-the-uk-is-now-in-unchartered-territory/

Phillip Inman: “Number of people in poverty in working families hits record high”2020, https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/feb/07/uk-live-poverty-charity-joseph-rowntree-foundation

Ben Okri: “Grenfell Tower,” 2017

Matthew Bell: “U and Non-U: How to be upper class in 2019”

2018, https://www.tatler.com/article/nancy-mitford-u-and-non-u-language

Faglige mål:

forstå mundtlige engelske tekster og samtaler af en vis længde om almene og faglige emner

̶ udtrykke sig sammenhængende og forholdsvis flydende, herunder formulere egne synspunkter, i præsentation, samtale og
diskussion på engelsk om almene og faglige emner med en relativ høj grad af grammatisk korrekthed

̶ læse og forstå skrevne tekster på engelsk i forskellige genrer af en vis længde om almene og faglige emner

skrive klare, detaljerede og sammenhængende tekster på engelsk med forskellige formål om almene og faglige emner med
en relativ høj grad af grammatisk korrekthed

̶ analysere og beskrive engelsk sprog med anvendelse af relevant faglig terminologi

̶ analysere og fortolke tekster med anvendelse af faglig terminologi og metode

̶ demonstrere viden om fagets identitet og metoder.

analysere og perspektivere aktuelle forhold i Storbritannien og USA med anvendelse af grundlæggende engelskfaglig viden
om historiske, kulturelle og samfundsmæssige forhold