Learn English Online - Marital Status Vocabulary Activity- American and British English

If you are an intermediate/advanced English student, you can't miss the activity that Teacher Grazina has prepared for you!

You will read a short text at the beginning, you'll discover and learn new vocabulary words and phrasal verbs.

At the end of the post, you'll find an article about some words that a British person will never say. Let's get to work!!

Si usted es un alumno de Inglés intermedio/avanzado ¡no se puede perder la actividad que la Profesora Rita Grazina ha preparado para usted!

Al comienzo, va a leer un texto corto donde podrá descubrir y aprender palabras nuevas y frases verbales.

Al final del posteo, encontrará un artículo acerca de algunas palabras que una persona británica nunca dirá. ¡¡Vamos a trabajar!!

Se você é um estudante de Inglês intermediário/avançado, não pode perder a atividade que professora Rita Grazina preparou para você!

No começo, você vai ler um texto curto onde vai descobrir e aprender palavras novas e frases verbais.

No final do post, você encontrará um artigo sobre algumas palavras que uma pessoa britânica nunca vai dizer. Vamos trabalhar!!

A) Start by reading the text below:

Last May, my life was moving forward at a fast clip. I'd landed a great job at a nonprofit, helping senior citizens stay active by leading dance and aerobics classes. Engaged to my boyfriend of five years, I was also finishing up planning my wedding. Chris and I started out as best friends in college before falling madly in love. We were sharing a house in North Carolina and were excited to be mapping out our future together... and we hoped to start a family soon.

With the ceremony a few weeks off, my four closest girlfriends decided to throw me a bachelorette party.

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B) Now, answer the questions below:

1. In the text she says she is engaged - Do you know what that means? What other marital status do you know?

2. Do you know what a phrasal verb is?

Can you guess the meaning of the phrasal verbs below? Try finding them in the text to guess their meanings.

Move forward

Finish up

Start out

Map out

P.S: Check the dictionary if you need help!

3. In the text she says her girlfriends decided to throw her a Bachelorette party - what do you think that is? Is it an American or a British English expression?

C) Let's find out!

Bachelorette
If you’re about to get married, and you want to throw a party to commemorate the passing of your single-ness, that’s got different names depending on where you are. The British prefer to call their male would-be-weds stags and their female counterparts hens. So instead of a bachelor or bachelorette party, there’s a stag do and a hen do. And it’s unlikely that, as with other traditions like baby showers, the American version will eventually take over as, to most British ears bachelorette sounds like an unnecessarily frilly feminization of an exclusively male term, akin to, I dunno, beardette or prostatrix.

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D) Is there any other word that you know is different between American and British English?

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