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Countries, Nationalities & Continents - Teacher's Notes
Countries, Nationalities & Continents - Teacher's Notes
Lead in
Ask students how many country names they know in English. Ask them to name any
animals that live in those countries. Ask them if they’ve visited any other countries
and which ones they liked.
Lesson
1) Ss write the names of the countries under each of the flags. Ss can help each
other in pairs or small groups to see how many they can answer by themselves
before checking the answers as a class. Drill pronunciation of the country names
while checking.
ANSWERS
1. Brazil
2. China
3. New Zealand
4. Argentina
5. Peru
6. Canada
7. South Africa
8. India
9. The United Kingdom (UK)
10. Italy
11. Germany
12. Mexico
13. Chile
14. France
15. Australia
16. Switzerland
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17. Egypt
18. The United States of America (USA)
19. South Korea
20. Japan
21. Ireland
Ss fill in the table of countries. Check in pairs or small groups, then as a class.
ANSWERS
3) Elicit the difference between country and nationality. E.g. ask “What country
are you in now?” “What is your nationality?” (i.e. where is your passport from).
“What do you call people from Australia? Australians”
Ss fill in the gaps in pairs. Write answers on the board to check spelling.
ANSWERS
Ending in ~an
Country Nationality
Argentina Argentinean
Australia Australian
Brazil Brazilian
Canada Canadian
Chile Chilean
Egypt Egyptian
Germany German
India Indian
Italy Italian
Mexico Mexican
Peru Peruvian
South Africa South African
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South Korea South Korea
The USA American
Ending in ~ese
China Chinese
Japan Japanese
Other
France French
Ireland Irish
New Zealand New Zealander
Switzerland Swiss
The UK British
4) Ss should be able to complete these gaps with their country and nationality.
Quickly fix any problems with understanding the difference, but don’t spend
too long on this as it will be practiced in question 5.
5) This next part can be tailored to your class depending on what type of
questions they have been taught or what topics you’ve recently covered in
class. The examples given are for a very low level elementary class. Other
possible questions include:
• What’s your favourite colour / sport?
• Do you have any hobbies? What are they?
• How many siblings do you have?
• What town are you from?
(Note: the example also uses the UK spelling for “favourite” and “colour” – feel
free to change this to US spelling using the editable word doc version.)
ANSWERS:
1) What’s your name?
2) How old are you?
3) Where are you from?
4) What’s your favourite animal?
5) What’s your favourite food?
7) Set the scene of a party where you are meeting new people and having a
basic conversation. You could use some background music to help set the
scene and maybe arrange some chairs around the room in different areas, or
ask Ss to stand and mingle.
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There are two options for this part of the exercise.
Option A:
If you have a multi-national class and you haven’t done a lot of getting to know
you type exercises yet, this can work as a good getting to know you exercise
with Ss giving real answers to the questions.
Option B:
If you have a single nationality class, or if Ss know each other quite well and
would already know the answers to the questions, use the character cards on
the following page. Split class into groups of 4 - 6 and give each Ss a
character card, asking them not to show anyone else their card. Ss pretend to
be the character on their card and speak to the other people in their group,
gathering the information required to fill in their table.
8) If you have extra time after the Ss have filled in the table you could ask
them to feedback to the class information about specific people and if they
found out any extra information. Also, if you have used Option B for question 7
you could ask Ss to answer some of the questions truly, as themselves.
EXTRAS
Countries and nationalities are good to use in spelling games in follow-up
lessons or at the end of this lesson if you have time.
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Character Cards
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