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False friends between
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Common false friends
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Difference in semantics and pronunciation
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Neologisms from American English

Top Tips for the CD-ROMs
Using the CD-ROM to explore British and American false friends

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Top Tips for the CD-ROMs
Using the CD-ROM to explore British and American false friends
by Mairi MacDonald

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Activity 2 - British or American English?

Answers

British English American English

2 One dress was too smart, the other too casual; she had nothing in-between.

4 She was too mean to put the heating on.

6 We ran out of petrol in the middle of nowhere.

7 The sea is getting rougher.

10 The students spent the whole lesson copying from the blackboard.

1 I had to go to the bathroom and lost my place in the line.

3 'What time do you have?' 'It's ten after three.'

5 We'd better get gas on our way out of town.

8 Amazingly, he survived when his plane crashed into the ocean.

9 She's still in school, but she's graduating in the spring.