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The document provides a series of exercises to practice translating between British and American English words. It includes boxes with words that need to be matched to their counterparts, sentences to complete by replacing British words with American words, and flags with words to write their matches below. The goal is to practice common differences in vocabulary between British and American English.

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British English

The document provides a series of exercises to practice translating between British and American English words. It includes boxes with words that need to be matched to their counterparts, sentences to complete by replacing British words with American words, and flags with words to write their matches below. The goal is to practice common differences in vocabulary between British and American English.

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Identify the American English Word in each box and write down the
corresponding British English word:

sweet s pub pants rubber

flat corn lift shop

petrol can angry film

theatr e ill gs taxi

sweat er footbal l lorry biscuit

pavemen t the cinema trousers honor

2. In the box bellow there are British English words and their equivalents in American English. Write bellow in each flag.

truck store eraser football taxi

soccer sweets flat elevator rubber

movie angry gs film cookie

petrol lift shop biscuit candy

cab mad apartment lorry

t r u c k s t o r e e r a s e r fl o o t b a l
1. Write the common American Word instead of the British Word and complete the sentences.

Mary ate a biscuit. She ate a ____________. They had three weeks holiday. They had three weeks ____________. Fill up the tank with petrol. Fill up the tank with ____________. He drove his new lorry along the motorway. He drove his new ____________ along the ____________. It was too cold so I had to wear a vest and a jumper. It was too cold so I had to wear a ____________ and a ____________. A pencil and a rubber are necessary tools. A pencil and ____________are necessary tools.

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