QUIZ 2:

ASSESSMENT VIA
ORAL PRESENTATION

GROUP 1
 INSTRUCTIONS :

1. Answer the succeeding items concisely yet meaningfully.

2. Present your answers through PPT presentation. Presenters
will be randomly chosen through shuffling of IDs.
3. Each group’s presentation must not exceed to 10 minutes.
4. Presentation Day: February 7th
1. Differentiate British English and American English grammar and
lexicon.
AMERICAN BRITISH
GRAMMAR
ENGLISH ENGLISH

• Collective nouns are either plural

• Collective nouns considered as
singular.
• Prefer to speak informally.
• Spellings in American English
primarily determined by how a
word sounds when uttered.
or singular.
• More likely to use formal speech.
• Primary distinctions is that terms
borrowed from other languages,
primarily French and German, are
nonetheless spelled in British
English.
 VOCABULARY

AMERICAN ENGLISH BRITISH ENGLISH

• Hood • Bunnet
• Trunk • Boot
• Truck • Lorry
• Antenna • Aerial
• Janitor • Caretaker
• Fall • Autumn
• French Fries • Chips
 ACCENT
(-r- sounds)

AMERICAN ENGLISH BRITISH ENGLISH

• Rhotic- meaning that “r” • Non-rhotic- meaning

sounds are always clearly that the “r” sound is not
pronounced. pronounced unless it is
followed by a vowel
ex. “My father's in the car” sound.
ex. “My father's in the car”.
 ACCENT
(intrusive-r- sounds)
That means that people sometimes add an
r-sound to a word that doesn't actually
have one, if it's followed by a vowel in the
next word.

AMERICAN ENGLISH BRITISH ENGLISH

ex. “I saw a film” ex. “I saw(r) a film”.

2. Explain the linguistic repertoires below:
Linguistic repertoire - is a set of skills and knowledge a person
has of one or more languages ad different varieties.

Someone asked two persons:

A. This problem is different FROM the last one.
B. This problem is different THAN the last one.
C. This problem is different TO the last one.
2. Explain the linguistic repertoires below:
Linguistic repertoire - is a set of skills and knowledge a person
has of one or more languages ad different varieties.

Someone asked two persons:

A. This problem is different FROM the last one.
-Is a standard form of statement in British English
-Is the most common statement used in all regional variations
of English.
B. This problem is different THAN the last one.
-This statement is fine if you are talking to an American
audience but rarely used.

C. This problem is different TO the last one.

- Is the standard in English and British
- This statement is not typically used in American English.
THANK YOU!