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British and American English di erences

A Listen, read and answer the questions below.

Hi, I’m Lisa and UK
I live in London, USA
in the UK.

Hello, my name’s Alice
and I’m from the USA.
I live in New York.

I go to secondary
school and I’m in I go to high school. I’m
year 9. I’m 14 years in 7 grade. I’m 13 years
th
old. My favorite sport is
old. My favourite © MM Publications
I sometimes take the
sport is athletics. underground to school. track and ield.
I sometimes go to the I often take the
cinema with my friends at subway to school.
the weekend. I love ilms!
On the weekend,
1. How old are the girls? I often go to the movies
with my brother, Jake.
2. How does Lisa get to school?
Movies are great!
3. What is Alice’s favourite sport?
4. Where does Lisa sometimes
go at the weekend?
5. Who does Alice often go out with?
PROJECT
B Read again and complete the table with the British P RO JE CT
or American equivalent.
Do research!
Lisa Alice Read what Alice does on Saturdays and look at
the words in blue. Are they different in British
secondary school high school English? Do some research on the Internet and
year replace them with words in British English.
favorite

track and ield On Saturday mornings, my friends come
subway to my house and we play video games. We
sometimes play games on our cell phones,
go to the movies too. We also play table soccer or ping-pong.
ilms We love games. For lunch, we always have

at the weekend pizza. My mom makes the best pizza!
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