British vs American English by Vera Kucherova https://padlet.com/just_in_case_kucherovav/h94xdi67stgu ENGLISH FOR EVERYONE en-us 2018-02-22 16:26:33 UTC 2023-06-15 17:01:27 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Thunder.png just_in_case_kucherovav https://padlet.com/just_in_case_kucherovav/h94xdi67stgu/wish/234347193 2018-02-22 17:07:35 UTC https://padlet.com/just_in_case_kucherovav/h94xdi67stgu/wish/234347193 Exercise 1. just_in_case_kucherovav https://padlet.com/just_in_case_kucherovav/h94xdi67stgu/wish/234351006 Look at the words in bold in the sentences below. Decide which of these sentences is most likely to be American [AmE] or British English [BrE] :

 
1) What are you doing at the weekend? D’you want to get together for some music?

2) So we’ll get together and barbecue on the weekend.

3) I haven’t really read anything like that in years. 

4) I haven’t talked to my brother for three years.

5)They were a lovely family. They lived in Walton Street.

6) I used to live on Perot Street.

7) I was doing twelve hours a day from Monday till Friday and twelve and a half on a Saturday. 

8)  He will stay in Miami through April. 

 

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on the weekend - AmE]]> 2018-02-22 19:40:56 UTC https://padlet.com/just_in_case_kucherovav/h94xdi67stgu/wish/234449410 Irina Bakulevich irina_bakulevich https://padlet.com/just_in_case_kucherovav/h94xdi67stgu/wish/236714507 in years - AmE
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live on Perot Street - AmE]]> 2018-04-23 22:02:33 UTC https://padlet.com/just_in_case_kucherovav/h94xdi67stgu/wish/254626715