1. Divided by a Common Language
comparing British and American English

2. Vocabulary – take notes
For each vocabulary word, write the word in British English and American English, and Korean if you need to

3. UK: Rubber US: Eraser

4. UK: Trousers US: Pants

5. UK: Pavement US: Sidewalk

6. UK: Mates US: Friends

7. UK: Lorry US: Truck

8. UK: Lift US: Elevator

9. UK: Pants US: Underwear

10. UK: Boot US: Trunk

11. UK: Biscuit US: Cookie

12. UK: Vest US: Tank Top

13. UK: Football US: Soccer

14. UK: Sweets US: Candy

15. UK: Full stop. US: Period

16. UK: Petrol US: Gasoline

17. UK: Note US: Bill

18. UK: Chemist US: Pharmacist

19. Questions: History
Why did the United States declare independence from Britain?
didn’t want to pay tax to Britain
Boston Tea party … angry about British tea tax…we trashed a boat full of tea, throwing the tea into the ocean
‘taxation without representation’
Americans paid tax to Britain but couldn’t vote for British Prime Minister

21. Questions: History
How did Noah Webster want to change the English writing system?
independent American writing system
reject British English, proud new American English style
spell words as they’re pronounced
Example – British colour American color
- make words easier to write

22. Even today we use Webster dictionaries

23. Questions: Slang Explain the Cockney phrase:
I hit my loaf on the apples and pears after arguing with the trouble and strife.
Loaf – loaf of bread – head
Apples and Pears – stairs
Trouble and strife – wife
I hit my head on the stairs after arguing with the wife.

24. Questions: Slang Explain the American phrase:
He tried to be baller and rebound, so he bought the pretty girl an expensive drink, but he struck out.
Baller – impressive, like a rich person
Rebound – find a new love after a breakup
Struck out – was rejected
He tried to be impressive and meet a new love, so he bought a pretty girl an expensive drink, but she rejected him.

25. Brush up Your English
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough.
Others may stumble but not you,
On hiccough, through, lough and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps.

26. Beware of heard, a dreadful word That looks like beard and sounds like bird, And dead--it's said like bed, not bead. For goodness's sake, don't call it deed! Watch out for meat and great and threat: They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.

27. A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,

28. And then there's dose and rose and lose—
Just look them up--and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go and thwart and cart.
Come, come, I've hardly made a start.

29. A dreadful language? Man alive,
I'd mastered it when I was five.