England and America are two countries separated by a common language. Oscar Wilde

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England and the USA

England and the USA

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“The Devil wears ‘Prada’” “Hi, sweetie,” I crooned, hating myself for

“The Devil wears ‘Prada’”

“Hi, sweetie,” I crooned, hating myself for sucking

up to a child. “It’s Andrea, from the office. Is your mom there?”
“You mean my mum?” she corrected as she always did when I used the American pronunciation. “Sure, I’ll get her.”
(by Lauren Weisbergen)
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English speaking countries Dark Blue - Countries of the world where

English speaking countries

Dark Blue - Countries of the world where English

is an official or national language.
Light Blue - Countries where it is an official/non-official but not primary language.
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British English history The 4th century Low German Anglo Saxon Old

British English history

The 4th century
Low German

Anglo Saxon

Old English

Middle English

Modern English

Church

Latin

Old Norse

Scientific Latin and Greek

Danish

Norman French

Other Languages

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Some facts about English There were only 30,000 words in Old

Some facts about English

There were only 30,000 words in Old English.

Modern English has the largest vocabulary in the world – more than 600,000 words.
There are about 60,000 words in common use.
About 450-500 words are added to the English vocabulary every year.
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American English history New England/Middle Colonies and Southern Colonies Map of

American English history

New England/Middle Colonies and Southern Colonies

Map of the American

Colonies at the outbreak of war in 1775.
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Noah Webster

Noah Webster

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Pronunciation

Pronunciation

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Spelling

Spelling

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Grammar British participle: Get-got-got-получить American participle: Get-got-gotten-получить Did you see him

Grammar

British participle:
Get-got-got-получить
American participle:
Get-got-gotten-получить

Did you see him yet?
He just went out.
Did you

go there already?
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Vocabulary

Vocabulary

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Idioms Throw the book at someone (досл. «запустить в кого-то книгой»)

Idioms

Throw the book at someone (досл. «запустить в кого-то книгой»)
The judge

threw the book at the criminal who robbed the bank. (Судья вынес суровое наказание преступнику, который ограбил банк).Br.E.
To finish until the deadline (досл. "закончить до мертвой черты")
You’d better hurry up to finish your material until the deadline. (Вам бы лучше поторопиться, чтобы завершить свой материал к сроку).Am.E.
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Values

Values

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Culture

Culture

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Conclusion To sum up everything, I would like to say that

Conclusion

To sum up everything, I would like to say that

I have revealed a great difference between two variants of English in my research work. I realize that we should make use of studying languages’ development and the history of the countries.
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Exercise Gasoline, gas Railroad car One way ticket Round-trip ticket Subway

Exercise
Gasoline, gas
Railroad car
One way ticket
Round-trip ticket
Subway
Parking lot
Truck
Baggage
Tube, underground
Lorry
Petrol
Car park
Luggage
Return ticket
Single ticket
Railway

carriage

Connect American equivalents for the following British words (theme-journey).

Answers: 1)3; 2)8; 3)7; 4)6; 5)1; 6)4; 7)2; 8)5