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Two nice new British and American English activities
How to teach British and American English (summary of all the articles below, with activities that work with a mix of grammar, vocab, functions, etc) – LINK UPDATED
How to teach British and American times, dates and numbers – LINK UPDATED
How to teach British and American vocabulary – LINK UPDATED
How to teach British and American grammar – LINK UPDATED
How to teach British and American spelling and punctuation – LINK UPDATED
How to teach British and American functional language (with differences in requests, small talk, etc) – LINK UPDATED
British and American body language and gestures – LINK UPDATED
Differences between British and American phone calls – LINK UPDATED
Differences between British and American emails
My problems with American English (guest post on Vicki Hollett’s blog)
Surprising things about British and American English
What I just learnt about American English
British English which is not worth teaching
The big list of British and American vocab differences by topic (on food, travel, places, people, law and order, education, medicine, STEM subjects, business, sports and games, multi-word verbs, idioms, office vocab, the arts and media, nature, and politics)
100 words and expressions with different meanings in British and American English
Related pages
British and American English photocopiables page
Articles on cultural differences page
Updated 16 July 2022