{"id":28420,"date":"2024-05-03T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=28420"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:26:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T07:26:09","slug":"billionaires-try-hard-to-look-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2024\/05\/billionaires-try-hard-to-look-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaires Try Hard to Look Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>B2 &#8211; Upper&nbsp; Intermediate<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The super-rich are people who are absolutely not like you and me. To say the least, they can pretty much afford anything in this world, including luxury clothes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, most of them try to make themselves look like they are just like any of us by wearing outfits that seem so plain and ordinary, having houses and cars that seem basic, and living a lifestyle that seem simple and frugal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you ever wonder why some of the top billionaires in the world appear in public looking so simple in their regular-looking outfits like basic t-shirts instead of donning Italian custom-made suits?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the video that explains the concept of poverty peacocking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Why Billionaires Try So Hard To Look &quot;Poor&quot;\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JukGECU6mnI?wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vocabulary Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What does &#8220;<strong>folksy image<\/strong>&#8221; mean, &#8220;<em>SBF and the rest of the gang were all frauds, but putting a lot of effort into crafting a <strong>folksy image<\/strong> is done by most prominent business leaders for three simple reasons.<\/em>&#8221; Use this expression in your own sentence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What does \u201c<strong>stealth wealth<\/strong>\u201d mean? &#8220;<em>Billionaires doing a Bloomberg or NAS Daily interviews featuring their basic car and geeky wardrobe is not the same thing as <strong>stealth wealth<\/strong>.<\/em>&#8221; Use this phrase in a sentence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What does \u201c<strong>grift<\/strong>\u201d mean? \u201c<em>An important element of any <\/em><strong><em>grift<\/em><\/strong><em> like this is that people need to believe that someone has become wealthy and that they can do it too.<\/em>\u201d Use this word in a sentence.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. 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