BASIC ENGLISH COURSE FOR

STARTERS

By: Emily Mayo Yesenia Cardenas Carmen Mendoza

TOPIC 4

Cuntries & Nationalities

Objective

Present the English names of the countries and their respective

nationalities.

Many of the names of the countries you know in Spanish change when you write and speak in

English. Some of them don not change in writing but their pronunciations do.

China - China (chaina)

Colombia – ColombiaArgentina – Argentina (Aryentina)

Chile - Chile

Alemania - GermanyInglaterra – EnglandJapón – JapanMéxico – MexicoEspaña - Spain

Espanish English

Espanish English

Change

Don’t change

Here there are some flags, countries and nationalities:

Unlike Spanish, nationalities in English do not change according to gender.

I am Mexican

I am Mexican

In English, nationalities

always start with capital letters.

Spanish / spanishOK Not OK

Nationalities can be classified according to their terminations:

ese ended:

ish ended:

an, ian ended: