Britain Now Has 7 social Classes - Reading Worksheet

1. Read the article on your own from "Thought shopping at Waitrose" to "the traditional working class and traditional middle class.”
a. What are the 2 extremes in the social order? What can you say about their respective names? What information do you have about each one?
b . Three different types of "capitals" are mentioned in this part. What are they?
c. Find elements in the text that can help you explain what these three types of capitals are.

2. Read the rest of the article from "Precariat" to the end of the text.
a. Check if your answers in Activity 3 (Pre-Reading Worksheet) were right. 
b. Identify the elements which help you understand the three different types of "capitals" better.

3. Explain to a partner what you understood about the new British social order before discussing with the rest of the class.

4. Fill in your "Personal Recap Chart".