Chet tillar fakulteti ingliz tili va adabiyoti kafedrasi

Task 8. Write down unknown words from the topic and introduce them to your follow students
Task 9. Make a list of synonyms
Task 10.Write down your own opinion on the topic
Self Study work - 7


The theme: “Some differences between American and British English”.
Problems for discussion:

1. 
   English language
   
2. 
   British English
   
3. 
   American English
   

Task 1. Listen to the text and repeat after the author
English language
Every Language has different kinds of variants: geographical or territorial, perhaps the most obvious: stylistic variation reflects the differences between the written and the spoken form of the standard national language in the given region and others.
I am going to tell you about Standard English. Notwithstanding, English is the national and state language of England proper, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and some African countries; in those countries, except England, this language appears in its different variants. And some differences are obvious, especially from the grammatical and phonetic points of view.
Standard English is the official language of Great Britain, taught at schools and Universities, used by the press, radio and television and spoken by educated people. It may be defined as current and literary form of English, substantially uniform and recognized as acceptable wherever English is spoken or understood.


British English

The British author George Bernard Shaw once said “England and America are two countries separated by the same language”. He meant that, although they speak the same language, people from England and people from America sometimes have trouble understanding each other. Words in British English and American English sometimes differ in spelling, pronunciation, meaning or usage. If you have ever read a book or a newspaper from America, you may have noticed such words as color, center, and traveler. You were abkle to guess that these were the American spelling of colour, centre, traveler.

The pronunciation of British English differs from the pronunciation of American English.
Most words have the same meaning in American as they have in Fritain. The greatest number of words that are not common to both British and American Revolution, especially those words that describe industrial or scientific inventions or processes. In America a “lift” is called an “elevator”, and “petrol ” is called “gas”. The differences in grammar in British and American English are slight.