F2F Class Notes (Raph)

Vocabulary

White-collar (adj): 1- relating to people who work in offices, doing work that needs mental rather than physical effort.
E.g.: They are lobbying for white-collar workers’ rights.

Blue-collar (adj): 1- blue-collar workers do work needing strength or physical skill rather than office work.
E.g.: Blue-collar workers are fighting for better working conditions.

Wealthy (adj): 1-  rich.
E.g.: He’s a very wealthy man.
E.g.: With their natural resources they are potentially a very wealthy country.

Gentrification (n): 1- the process by which a place, especially part of a city, changes from being a poor area to a richer one, where people from a higher social class live:
E.g.: Ordinary working people have been priced out of East London by gentrification.

Homophobia (n): 1- discrimination against LGBTQ people.
E.g.: We need to fight homophobia in the workplace.

LGBTQ = Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer

Grammar

In American. – In America.

Middlenight – Midnight

Work women. – Working women.

Pronunciation

Burst: /bɝːst/

Gentrification: /ˌdʒen.trə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/

Mechanism: /ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/

Hesitant: /ˈhez.ə.tənt/

Impatient: /ɪmˈpeɪ.ʃənt/

January: /ˈdʒæn.ju.er.i/