## American and British

Language = contact
How many people in the world speak English (as their first language) do you think?
Go to www.wikipedia.org to find out!
Many people speak English, but the variants of English are all very different!
Do you know the differences between American and British English?
Any idea if any other languages are spoken in England?
Have a look at the following links of Woodlands Junior School:

- The difference between the United Kingdom (UK), England, Great-Britain and the British Isles
- What language do you speak in Britain?
- Why do the Americans speak differently than the British?

Exercise - One minute presentation
Take about ten minutes to read information you find interesting.
From this information, choose a topic you find interesting, fascinating, strange or else.
Work together with a classmate to prepare a one minute presentation.
You have about five minutes to prepare it.
In your presentation you explain why you chose the topic and tell something about it.
Of course you may use other sources of information if you want to but you will not have much time to prepare your one minute presentation.

- Pupils get about ten to fifteen minutes to read the texts and to choose a topic.
- They then get about five minutes to prepare their presentation which should last for about a minute.
- You can choose to give your pupils some words they should use during their presentation.
- Pupils listening can be given a task as well. You can think of for example a listening task (are the words given by the teacher used in the right way?, think of a question for the presenters.), or a task that involves observing presentation skills (could people understand them?).
- The one minute presentations can obviously be organised in groups of two to three students as well with the same kind of tasks.