Lesson Plans & Worksheets: Nationality or ethnicity

Yes no questions with names of countries and nationality adjective + noun games, followed by students drilling nationality adjectives word formation.

Guessing nationalities by people and things from that place

True and false statements with country and nationality words speaking.

Lying game to practise names of countries and nationality adjectives, with suggested yes no questions about countries and things from particular places.

Students draw and guess countries and famous things from those countries to practise names of countries and nationality adjectives,

A fun memory card game based on Othello to memorise names of countries and nationality adjectives, including versions in full sentences with Present Simple of be, with third person and with contractions.

Personal conversation questions for speaking practice of country names and nationality adjectives, including discussing favourites and experiences.

Students play games by completing typical sentences for country and nationality words, including finding things in common, bluffing, and guessing.

Practising country words through personal questions and a guessing game, including further hints about where it is like "Much further East".

Students use strong and weak modals of probability to make guesses as their partners give hints on which places they are thinking of, first with countries and then with cities, with a modal verbs grammar presentation in between.

Students practise adding suffixes to country words to make nationality adjectives with two fun matching words with the same endings card games, a slow one based on pelmanism/ the memory game/ pairs, and/ or a fast reactions one based on Snap.

Suffixes to make nationality adjectives games.

Personalised speaking practice of the language of personal preferences and country and nationality words with a fun lying game, including a coin game variation.

Nationality adjectives stressed on the first syllable and on the second syllable games.

Two fun card games to practise how many syllables nationality words have and/ or which syllable they are stressed on, good for both words to talk about different places and as an easy introduction to syllables and word stress.

Number of syllables in nationality adjectives games.

Used to to describe UK customs