Title: BRITISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH
Course: VIRTUAL TRIP

In this web page we are going to learn a little bit about the differences between British and American english. Do you dare?

AMERICAN AND BRITISH ENGLISH

There are lots of differences between British and American English. There are:
- Vocabulary differences
- Spelling differences
- Pronunciation differences
- Punctuation differences
- Grammatical differences

In this unit we are going to talk about the differences between british and american English as far as vocabulary is concerned. Look at the following table and see some differences!

BRITISH ENGLISH | AMERICAN ENGLISH | YOUR LANGUAGE
CRISPS | CHIPS |
PETROL | GAS |
RUBBER | ERASER |
BLOCK OF FLATS | APARTMENT |
CHEMIST | DRUG STORE |

Note that we have only written some words. Your job is trying to find twenty more words which are different in British and American English and prepare a table like the one given. I can give you some help. Look at the following webpages:

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/americanbritish.html
http://us2uk.tripod.com/
http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/usukenglish/