Countries and Nationalities Practice

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TEACHER’S NOTES

Countries and Nationalities Practice

Activity Type Introduction


Vocabulary Exercises: This countries and nationalities worksheet helps students practice
table completion, the names of countries and corresponding nationalities.
categorising, word
association Procedure
Speaking Activity: asking Give each student a copy of the worksheet.
and answering questions,
freer practice (pair work) Working alone, students write the nationality of each country
shown in a chart.

Focus Exercise A - Answer key


Country names and
nationality adjectives Australian Turkish Egyptian Swiss
Japanese Chinese Dutch Irish
Yes/no questions and British Spanish Israeli French
short answers with the American Indian Polish Portuguese
verb to be Italian Vietnamese Thai Lebanese

Next, students categorize the nationalities, according to their


Aim suffixes.
To practice country
Exercise B - Answer key
names and nationality
adjectives
-n, -an, -ian -ese -ish other
Australian Japanese British Dutch
American Chinese Turkish Israeli
Italian Vietnamese Spanish Thai
Indian Portuguese Polish Swiss
Egyptian Lebanese Irish French

After that, in pairs, students test each other on the countries and
nationalities.

The student being tested puts their worksheet face-down.

If their partner says a country, the student replies with the


corresponding nationality.

If their partner says a nationality, the student replies with the


corresponding country.

Afterwards, students swap roles and repeat the activity.

Finally, students take turns imagining they are from a country on


the worksheet, and their partner asks yes/no questions with the
verb to be to find out which country they are from.
COUNTRIES AND NATIONALITIES

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Countries and Nationalities Practice

A. Write the nationality of each country.

Country Nationality Country Nationality

Australia Egypt

Japan Netherlands

Britain Israel

The United States Poland

Italy Thailand

Turkey Switzerland

China Ireland

Spain France

India Portugal

Vietnam Lebanon

B. Categorize the nationalities according to their suffixes.

-n, -an, -ian -ese -ish other

C. Work with a partner. Test your partner on the different countries and nationalities.

If you say a country, your partner replies with the nationality. If you say a nationality, your
partner replies with the country.

Italy Italian

D. Now, take turns imagining you are from another country. Choose a country from
the worksheet. Your partner then tries to guess which country you are from using
yes/no questions with the verb to be.

Example:

A: Are you from Spain? B: No, I'm not.


A: Are you from Italy? B: No, I'm not.
A: Are you from Japan? B: Yes, I am.
A: So, you are Japanese? B: Yes, that's right.

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