Monday, 20 June 2011

Soical Class

Last week , teacher give us to look one video.  This video talk about dramatic team arranged 4 weeks to change  one upper class girl join to posh class. The girl who calle Lise and she come from Yorkshire. Before that, Lisa need to spent 4weeks to learn how to speak, how to choice  appropriate clothing, how to use elegant body language,and so on. When she go to final test, we can find , She can be a good use of learned to depict an elegant woman,although she has few mistakes in some sides. However,  in Britain there are working class, middle class and upper class. some important reason lead to these class can't real integration in one class.


POSH short by Port out, starboard home. It means Elegant, swanky, rich. The true origin of 'posh' is uncertain. The term was used from the 1890s onward to mean a dandy. George and Weedon Grossmith's The Diary of a Nobody, which began publication in serial form in the English satirical magazine Punch in 1888, has a character called Murray Posh, who is described as 'a swell'. The book is a satire of the times and most of the character's names are intended to match aspects of their personality, so it is quite probable that the Grossmiths used the name Posh with the meaning we currently know. The said Murray certainly looks posh enough.
Martin, G(2010) 'POSH - Port out, starboard home' .
Available at: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/port%20out%20starboard%20home.html
(Accessed at: 20 June 2011).

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