Lesson Plans: Varieties and Dialects

Aussie idioms and abbreviations speaking coin game.

House and home words and phrases in the UK and USA review.

Clothes and accessories vocabulary in the UK and USA review, starting with a trivia quiz.

Food and drink in the UK and USA and in UK and USA English review, starting with a fun general knowledge quiz.

Transportation and transportation vocabulary in the UK and USA review, starting with a pairwork general knowledge quiz.

Students review expressions that have different meanings in the UK and US and so could be confusing with a fun jigsaw exercise.

Practising defining relative clauses while learning British and American vocabulary differences

British and American financial English quiz

UK and US English for engineers and scientists review, also good for defining things and talking around unknown vocabulary practice.

Students try to work out and then remember common gestures and body language in the UK, useful for visitors to the United Kingdom as an interesting introduction to cultural differences more generally.

Fun pairwork activities in which their partners guess which version is British from language and general knowledge clues, followed by a more basic matching UK and US English activity.