BRITISH ENGLISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH VOCABULARY arse, buttocks autumn ball banknote biscuit bloke bobby bonnet boot car park cinema city centre chemist chips crisps draughts dustbin flat football fringe full stop ground floor handbag holiday ice lolly insects knickers lift lorry mate mobile phone motorway nappy pants pavement petrol plait
ass fall prom bill cookie guy cop hood trunk (car) parking lot movie theater downtown drug store fries potato chips checkers trashcan apartment soccer bangs period first floor purse vacation popsicle bugs panties elevator truck bud, buddy cell phone highway diaper shorts sidewalk gas / gasoline braid
VOCABULARY plaster post post code pram prawn pub queue trousers row rubber rubbish Scotch tape shop sideboards spot sweater sweets torch trolley underground waistcoat wellingtons
Band-aid mail zip code baby carriage shrimp bar line pants argument eraser garbage Sellotape store sideburns pimple jumper candy flashlight cart subway vest rubber boots
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TYPICAL WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS Let’s 86 the whole thing! Miranda warning
Blimey! Brolly (umbrella)
SPELLING
centre
colour
theatre
catalogue
metre
center
honour
color
Words with –OUR
favourite
Words ending in –RE
Words ending in –OGUE
dialogue
analogue
Words ending in –ISE/–IZE
realise / realize analise / analize criticise / criticize Final –L doubled after short vowel travelled fulfill modelling Words ending in –ENCE defence licence
change to – RE
change to – OR
catalog
realize
theater
meter
favorite
honor
change to – OG
dialog
analog
ending only in –IZE
analize
criticize
Final –L not always doubled
traveled
fulfil
modeling
change to – ENSE
defense
license
AMERICAN ENGLISH REDUCTIONS want to going to got to let me give me don’t you get you
wanna gonna gotta lemme gimme doncha getcha / gotcha
POSSESSION British people normally use HAVE GOT to show possession. Have you got a car? He hasn´t got any friends.
In American English HAVE and HAVE GOT are both possible. Do you have a car? Have you got a car?
PREPOSITIONS at the weekend write to me soon
on the weekend write me soon
THE VERB GET The past participle is GOT.
The past participle is GOTTEN, except when HAVE GOT means HAVE.
He has got a prize.
He has gotten a prize. I have got two sisters (meaning I have two sisters)
PAST SIMPLE / PAST PARTICIPLES The irregular form of the following verbs is generally more used
burn – burnt dream – dreamt smell – smelt spill – spilt
lean – leant learn – learnt spell – spelt spoil – spoilt
The regular form of the following verbs is generally more used
burn – burned dream – dreamed smell – smelled spill – spilled
lean – leaned learn – learned spell – spelled spoil – spoiled