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VOCABULARY: Countries and nationalities

Countries and nationalities

In pairs or groups of three, ask and answer the questions below:

  • Is there any country you would love to visit?
  • Do you have any foreign friend? What is his/her nationality?
  • Which country do the cities below belong to?

 

Paris - California - Manchester - Frankfurt - Lisbon - Athens - Milan - Brussels

Johannesburg - Casablanca - Osaka - Melbourne - Luanda - Brasilia - Ottawa

 

Activity

Below you have a list of countries and their nationalities. Try to complete the gaps with the corresponding word.

  1. - English
  2. Scotland -
  3. Ireland -
  4. Italy -
  5. - Spanish
  6. - Dutch
  7. Georgia -
  8. France -
  9. Switzerland -
  10. Portugal -
  11. - Russian
  12. - Mexican
  13. Brazil -
  14. - Japanese
  15. - Chinese
  16. India -
  17. Canada -
  18. Australia -

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Classroom Language

Look at the countries in the box below. Write the name of each country's nationality into the corresponding column as in example 1. Go to Wordreference.com to look up words and their pronunciation.

Countries

Ana Losada e José Luis Murado. CC BY-SA

    

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Bonus Task

To do more vocabulary exercises about places at school, click the link below:

You will be taken to Learning Chocolate, a very useful website to learn vocabulary as it includes wordsorganised into categories and plenty of exercises to revise their spelling and pronunciation.

 

Watch the following tutorial to learn how to use the site:

How to use Learning Chocolate to Improve Your English. Vídeo de Curso Tic Oral Skills en YouTube. Licenza CC BY