«The English have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.» Oscar Wilde. - презентация

1 «The English have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.» Oscar Wilde

2 The English language dominates business correspondence plays the role of the state language in the USA is included in school curriculum in America

3 American English is called a simplified one is based on the spoken English of traders and new bourgeoisie is more flexible, changeable and easier to use than British English

4 Intonation patterns In British English there are a lot of falling, rising and stepped kinds of intonation In American English there is only one pattern : a plain scale and a fall tone

5 American English is the most popular language in the world, because: America remains the top superpower in the world it is wildly spread through advertising, tourism and television all computer technologies, business, entertaining industry come from America and work everywhere

6 Differences in spelling: In American English: 1.Traveler, programing 2.Check, tire, woolen 3.Connexion 4. Curb, gray 5. Advertize, realize 6.Learned, dreamed 7. License (a noun), to practise (a verb) In British English: 1.Traveller, programming 2.Cheque, tyre, woollen 3.Connection 4. Kerb, grey 5.Advertise, realise 6.Learnt, dreamt 7.To license (a verb), licence (a noun)

7 Differences in grammar forms, rules and in idioms: American variant: Get- got- gotten Did he arrive yet? We work 9 through 5 It is a quarter of 5 It is 20 after 5 In school/in hotel British variant Get- got- got Has he arrived yet? We work from 9 to 5 It is a quarter to 5 It is 20 past 5 At school/at hotel

8 Differences in pronunciation: American people pronounce [r] in such words as port, more, dinner pronounce hath and path with the sound [/\] pronounce tune as [tu:n] pronounce cot and caught as [ka:t] British people dont pronounce this sound at all pronounce hath and path with the sound [a:] pronounce tune as [tju:n] pronounce cot and caught as [ko:t]

9 Differences in vocabulary: British and American use some words that have the same meaning, but different spelling: Am Br sidewalk pavement elevator lift apartment flat closet wardrobe Pure American words: Highway, mail, movie, gas, truck, litter, pants, last name, etc.

10 Dialects Dialects in American English New England dialect Southern dialect General American dialect Northern dialect

11 Conclusion Having learnt English properly we can easily cope with its American analogue