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ther tongue Learn English foreign language is used trade tourism businessmen tourists speak English using people WORD STUDY 1 closet A a number f people or things that form more than half of a group 2 explain B information and understanding about a subject 3 majority C the same 4 mother tongue D a cupboard where you can put clothes 5 equal E to make something clear to understand by describing or giving information about it 6 municate F native language 7 knowledge G the activity of buying ,selling or exchanging goods or services 8 trade H to give information using speech, radio signals or body movement AMERICAN ENGLISH amp。 BRITISH ENGLISH American English and British English The differences between American English and British English How e the differences: first the language in Britain and America was the same. 1776 America became an independent language began to language in America stayed the same,while the language in England changed. the same time, British English and the American English stared borrowing words from other languages, ending up with different words. 1828 Noah Webster published the first American dictionary. And he changed the spelling of some words. word Borrowed from English borrowed from other languages cent Old French Florida Spanish howl German Indian cookbook toufu Chinese tsunami Japanese tornado Spanish What will you do if people don’t understand you? something one or two more times, slowly, often helps. you are not pronouncing the word right. Try changing sounds. to say the same thing but use different words. you don’t know the exact word for an object, you can give a description of what it looks like. difficult words with simple ones