Introducing American

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Introducing American and British
English Subject English
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Group Members Fung Pauline Po Lam 98638612 Lee
Wai Kit, Mark 98570874 Ng Hoi Yan, Wendy
98647944 Tang Lam Chi, Alice 98613373
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Introduction Target audience Form 4 to Form 5
students Format Classwork, self-learning with
teacher guidance Aims Introducing the
differences between British and American
English Arousing students interests and
awareness towards these differences Learning new
vocabulary and pronunciation
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Lets start with a joke! See if you can follow...
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Excuse me, wheres the restroom?
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Oh! If you want to take a rest, you can go to
the park!
WHAT!!!
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Do you understand why the lady was so angry? If
you dont understand, dont worry! Their
misunderstanding was due to the differences of
American and British English. Lets learn their
differences through the following games.
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Game one What are the differences?
Introduction There are two versions of article
in the game, listen carefully and try to
distinguish the differences between the two
articles.
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Version 1 Mom, thats Angies apartment located
at downtown. Last time, Angie had candy, chips,
cookies and dessert at her birthday party. I
think theyre good. On the sidewalk, you see,
its the mailbox full of mails. Her gray trashcan
is full of trash. Mm, may be theyre on their
vacation. Anyway, lets go to McDonalds and get
a burger.
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Version 2 Mom, thats Angies flat located at
city centre. Last time, Angie had sweets, crisps,
biscuits and pudding at her birthday party. I
think theyre good. On the pavement, you see,
its the postbox full of posts and her grey bin
is full of rubbish. Mm, maybe theyre on their
holiday. Anyway, lets go to McDonalds and get a
burger.
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What are the differences between the two articles?
The word choice of the two articles is different
but the meanings of the two articles are the
same. The words choice in the two articles is
different thus the meanings of the two articles
are different.
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Although the word choice of the two articles are
different, the meanings of the two articles are
the same. This is because of the use of American
English in article one and British English in
article two. One of the differences between
American English and British English is
that Some words are different in spelling in
these two English but their meanings are the
same.
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Lets have a look at the following examples
extracted from the two articles.
American British apartment flat downtown c
ity centre candy sweets chips
crisps cookies biscuits pudding dessert
American British sidewalk pavement mailbox p
ostbox mails posts gray grey trashcan bin trash
rubbish vacation holiday
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Besides the difference in word choice, can you
discover the other differences between American
and British English? Now click on the icons and
listen to the previous two articles to find out
the differences!
Version 1 American English
Version 1 British English
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What is/ are the difference/s between the speech
of the two English?
The pronunciation of American English and British
English are different only. The accent of
American English and British English are
different only. All of the above.
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Now try another game to see the differences of
pronunciation between American and British
English!
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Game Two What are the differences?
Introduction There is an article in the game,
listen carefully to the two versions of this
article and distinguish the differences between
these two versions.
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Susan and John were attending a lesson in a
laboratory. Their teacher showed them a sample of
calcium chloride and stirred it with a rod. Then
the solution became very clear. John and Susan
did not watch clearly and ate tomatoes. Their
teacher stopped them and punished them.They
blamed that their teacher is very demanding and
insincere.
American English
British English
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What can you discover from the two versions of
the article?
The pronunciation of the words in the two
versions are the same. The pronunciation of the
words in the two versions are different.
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American
British laboratory l bDr tri læbr
t ri sample samp l sæmp l rod
rDd rad clear
klI klIr clearly klI li
klIrli tomato t mat u
t meItou stop stDp
stap demand dImand
dImænd
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In American English and British English, words
shared same meanings and spellings may have
different pronunciation. It means that a word
have one pronunciation in American English but
may have another pronunciation in British
English.
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Summary There are two types of English which are
American English and British English. Two of the
differences between American English and British
English are Words have same meanings but have
different spellings. Words have same meanings and
spellings but have different pronunciation.
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Bingo! You are right!
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Sorry,youve got it wrong.
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Youre right!
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Sorry, youve got it wrong!
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Version 1 (American English) Mom, thats Angies
apartment located at downtown. Last time, Angie
had candy, chips, cookies and dessert at her
birthday party. I think theyre good. On the
sidewalk, you see, its the mailbox full of
mails. Her gray trashcan is full of trash. Mm,
may be theyre on their vacation. Anyway, lets
go to McDonalds and get a burger.
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Version 2 (British English) Mom, thats Angies
flat located at city centre. Last time, Angie had
sweets, crisps, biscuits and pudding at her
birthday party. I think theyre good. On the
pavement, you see, its the postbox full of posts
and her grey bin is full of rubbish. Mm, maybe
theyre on their holiday. Anyway, lets go to
McDonalds and get a burger.
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Good! Youre right!
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Sorry, youve got it wrong!
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Thats the end of the programme. Thank you for
using! See you later!
Bye!
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