English in the world

American english
Maria Neves
Mariana Serafina
12ºB
 The historical background english
The history of American English began in the 17th century when the first
wave of English immigrants arrived in the Americas. 
 They developed their unique vocabulary, using the native tongues of the
American Indians, the earlier Spanish settlers, and even the French
Examples of english words and origin

Cookie Cigar
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Contries where
english is used
as first
language 
English as the first, second or foreign
language in America
 Number of
American English speackers

• Spoken in: U.S

• Total speakers: 225 million and 25 million as a second language 
• Origin: Indo-European; Germanic; West Germanic; Anglo-Frisia; angle;
English language 

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 The economic and political status of the
country
• The United States is a representative democracy with a capitalistic system
• The Constitution have 3 different branches of government (President,
Congress, Supreme Court)
These Separations are made to avoid any one part of the government
becoming too powerful.
 Celebrities or historical personalities of the
country

Singer
s
 Celebrities or historical personalities of the
country

Actors
 Celebrities or historical personalities of the
country

Historical personalities
 Interesting cultural aspects

Capitalism/
The culture is
Privite
primarily of
Individuality is
Western and
highly valued in
European Origin 
American culture
 Interesting cultural aspects
• -The “TO-GO” concept
• Americans are always busy, so they don´t have much time to eat.
• -Competition
• Americans are very competitive. They dont´t tend to sit back and wait for others
to catch up what they want.
 Examples of works of literature written in
English by American authors
Edgar Poe is known by his poetry
• Edgar Allan Poe and short storys
Mark Twain
He is considered the inventor of
detective fiction
His most famous book is called:
“The Raven”
Mark Twain was a writer, a
humorist, an entrepreneur and
a publisher.
His most famous book is
called: “The adventures of
Tom Sawyer”
 The main unique
features of the
American English
American english have many examples of
vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar
• North Americans don
´t use the Present tense as much as british
• Colective nouns are singular
in American English Grammar
• They spell Simple past tense Verbs with "
-ed"
Ex: British- Learnt
American- learned
British: dreamt
American: dreamed
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