American and British Neighbo(u)rs

16 Novembro 2018, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Pair work activity: Vocabulary exercises. B1.2 Workbook p. 43a-45.

Listening exercise: Guess the speaker’s nationality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcnxLOWnrBg

Group activity: Which words are British? Which words are American? Each group received 24 words in an envelope along with two different coloured sheets of paper: one for the words from the UK and one for the ones from the USA. Sts had to decide which were American or British expressions: pants, trousers, torch, flashlight, underground, subway, neighbour, neighbor, travelled, traveled, French fries, chips, etc. At the end of the exercise, 2 students were asked to write the words on the whiteboard.