Country and Nationality Words- Discussion Questions

Country and nationality word practice discussion questions

Choose any questions you like from below and ask them to each other. If you want to know more about your partner’s answer, feel free to ask extra follow-up questions such as those in brackets below (but don’t ask those before the first question is answered).  

• Are you interested in any sports? (What countries do those sports come from?)
• Are you interested in any foreign teams? (What countries do those teams come from?)
• Can you cook any foreign food? (Which countries are those dishes from?)
• Do any famous people in your country come from other countries? (Where’re they from?)
• Do any foreign people live near you? (What foreign countries are they from?)
• Do any sportsmen in your country come from other countries? (Where are they from?)
• Do you buy any imported food? (Which countries does the food come from?)
• Do you have any foreign contacts online? (Where are they from?)
• Do you have any foreign friends? (Where are they from?/ What languages do they speak?)
• Do you like any foreign movie stars? (Where are they from?)
• Do you like any foreign music? (Where is it from?/ What language is it in?)
• Do you like watching or doing any sports? (Which country are those sports from?)
• Do you own any foreign brands? (Which countries are they from?)
• Do you own any foreign goods? (Which countries are they from?)
• Do you work or study with any foreign people? (Where are they from?/ What languages do they speak?)
• Do your favourite teams have any foreign players or a foreign coach? (Where are they from?/ What languages do they speak?)
• Have any foreign people visited your country recently? (Where did they come from?)
• Have you ever flown on a foreign airline? (What countries were they from?)
• Have you ever spoken English outside the classroom? (Who did you speak to?)
• Have you ever studied any other languages? (Would you like to?)
• Have you seen any famous foreign people on TV recently? (Where are they from?)
• Have you seen any foreign tourists recently? (Where were they probably from?)
• Have you seen any international sports events recently? (Where was it?/ What countries were the players from?)
• Have you visited any foreign countries? (How about just transferring between planes?/ Which was your favourite?)
• Is this teacher your first foreign teacher? (Where were the other teachers from?)
• What are the most beautiful languages, do you think? (What do you like about them?)
• What are your favourite fashion brands? (Which countries are they from)?
• What’s your favourite foreign food? (Where does it come from?/ What do you like about that food?)
• Which foreign countries would you like to visit? (Why not…?)
• Which foreign languages are easiest to learn? (Why makes you think that?)
• Which languages are probably most difficult to learn? (What makes you think that?)
• Would you like to study any other languages? (Which ones?)

Ask about any questions above which you don’t understand, are not sure how to answer, etc, each time answering those questions after your teacher explains what they mean.  

Brainstorm countries and nationalities, starting with those you used in your answers.