Unit3AmericanEnglishLesson10CountriesspeakEnglishastheirnativelanguageBritainAmericaCanadaAustraliaNewZealandSouthAfricaTherearesomedifferencesbetweenAmericanEnglishandBritishEnglish.WhatarethedifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish?Readthepassagequicklyandfindout:colourcolorcentretraveledtravelledcenterdancenot[dæns][da:ns][nat][nэt]autumnfallIthinkIguessspellingpronunciationwordsexpressions1.ThereisnodifferencebetweenAmericanEnglishandBritishEnglish.2.WrittenEnglishisthesameinbothAmericanEnglishandBritishEnglish.3.ThedifferencesinthewrittenEnglisharegreaterthanthespokenlanguage.4.Sometimespeoplefromthetwocountriesdohavedifficultyinunderstandingeachother.5.TheEnglishlanguageintheworldalwaysstaythesameasthelanguageusedinBritain.6.OnlyafewwordsandexpressionshavecomeintothelanguagefromAmericanEnglish.Judgewhetherthefollowingstatementsaretrueorfalse:()()()()()()FFFTFFParagraph1Paragraph2Paragraph3/4Paragraph5SpellingdifferencesinthewrittenEnglishThedifferencesinthespokenlanguageHowdidthedifferencescomeabout?NewwordsfromAmericanEnglish?a.Englishinothercountrieschangedb.EnglishitselfinBritainchanged{WrittenEnglishis_________thesameinbothBritainandAmerica,________therearesome________differences.Thedifferencesinthe_______languagearegreater.However,mostofthetime,peoplefromthetwocountriesdonothaveany________in__________eachother.Sometimesthelanguage_______intheseplaces_______thesame,________thelanguageinEnglandchanged._____________wordsandexpressionshavecomeintotheLanguagefromAmericanEnglish.moreorlessthoughspellingspokendifficultyunderstandingspokenstayedwhileAgreatmanySupposegirlsarefromBritain,andboyscomefromAmerica.TalkaboutthedifferencesbetweenAmericanEnglishandBritishEnglishwithyourpartner.Whichlanguagedoyouprefer,AmericanEnglishorBritishEnglish?Why?1.HowdoAmericansspellthesewords?favouritemetre2.HowdoAmericanspronouncethesewords?askboxwheelwhataddress3.WhatwordswouldAmericansuseinsteadofthefollowing?postpetrolfilmshopfavoritemetermailgasmoviestore