{"id":30735,"date":"2025-07-24T08:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=30735"},"modified":"2025-07-31T10:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T08:34:18","slug":"big-beautiful-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2025\/07\/big-beautiful-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Beautiful Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>B2 &#8211; Upper Intermediate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How much do American CEOs make compared to their employees in a year? The reasonable answer would be twenty times, fifty times, or maybe even a hundred times. In truth, these big CEOs can make a thousand times what their employees earn in a year. And worse, this gap will only widen with the advent of Trump&#8217;s \u201cBig Beautiful Bill.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find out more, watch the video below.<\/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=\"How the Big Beautiful Bill Will Transfer Trillions From Workers to Wall Street\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MG6tuszAIT8?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>on the floor<\/strong>&#8221; mean in this context,&nbsp;\u201c<em>All these companies are super profitable. Wouldn\u2019t it make sense for them to just have enough staff scheduled <strong>on the floor<\/strong>?<\/em>&#8221; Use this phrase in a sentence and give a synonym.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What is a \u201c<strong>corporate raider<\/strong>\u201d? \u201c<em>Danny Lovito plays a <\/em><strong><em>corporate raider<\/em><\/strong><em> who is trying to convince the shareholders of a small New England cable company to sell him their shares so that they can cash out when he liquidates the company.<\/em>\u201d Use this term in a sentence and give a synonym.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What does&nbsp;\u201c<strong>to turn the bull loose<\/strong>&#8221; mean?<em> \u201cWe\u2019re going<strong> to turn the bull loose<\/strong>.\u201d <\/em>Use this idiom in a sentence and give a synonym.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In your opinion, why does the Big Beautiful Bill reduce the taxes of powerful companies?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What is your opinion on the \u201cBig Beautiful Bill\u201d? 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