Fiesta ESL - Vocabulary Exercises - British and American English

Exercise 2.
Match the British English words with their American equivalent in the box.

1. postcode
2. queue
3. toilet
4. shop
5. sweets
6. thousand million
7. rubbish
8. trousers
9. tap
10. dinner jacket

ANSWERS

billion    candy    faucet    garbage/trash
line    pants    restroom
store    tux/tuxedo zip code

Exercise 1.
Match the British English words with their American equivalent in the box.

1. pavement
2. holiday
3. bill
4. cinema
5. lift
6. garden
7. petrol
8. biscuit
9. chemist's
10. autumn

F I E S T A

American and British English

check    cookie    drugstore   elevator
fall    gas movie theater
sidewalk    vacation    yard