Project Differences between British and American English

Project Differences between British and American English

The project was done byKuchinskaya Anastasia Onishchenko MariaVerba Anastasia 10-A

INTRODUCTION

GRAMMAR AND CONSTRUCTION

PRONUNCIATION

Examples

BritishAmericanAdvertisement

BritishAmericanHospitable 1) American intonation does not rise or fall as much as that of British English, it sounds more monotonous. Examples: advertisement, hospitable

Examples

BritishAmericanChance

BritishAmericanBath

2) American voices usually have a higher pitch. That is why American English often seems too emphatic and American voices seem louder than those of British speakers. Examples: chance, bath

Examples 3) In standard southern British English, r is only pronounced before a vowel sound. In most kinds of American English, r is pronounced in all positions it written in a word, and it changes the quality of a vowel that comes before words like car, turn, offer sound very different in British and American speech. Examples: bar, pure

BritishAmericanBar

BritishAmericanPure

Examples

BritishAmericanClass

Dance

British

American

4) Such words as class, dance, are pronounced with /a:/ in standard southern British English, and with /ae/in American and other varieties of British English.

Examples

HomeBritish

American

GoBritish

American

5) In such words as home, go, is more rounded than in Britain.

Examples

MissileBritishAmerican

Reptile

BritishAmerican

6) Words ending in unstressed -ile (reptile, missile) are pronounced with /ail/ in British English; some are pronounced with /l/ in American English.

VOCABULARY

Americans go on vacation, while Brits go on holidays, or hols.New Yorkers live in apartments; Londoners live in flats.

QUIZ

Answers

CONCLUSION