UsingEnglish.com

Nationality Words- Syllables And Stress

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

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.

      Page: /

Lesson Plan Content:


Nationality word syllables and stress pelmanism and snap

 

Instructions for teachers

Decide if you want to practise syllables or stress. Cut up one set of those cards per group of two or three students. Take out the section titles. Decide which sections from below you want to practise and then decide if you want to leave out any cards, for example countries that your students might not have heard of.

Shuffle the cards and give out one pack to each group. Before you try the games, it is good to ask students to put the cards in columns by number of syllables or stressed syllable in their nationality word (adjective) form. If they get stuck, you can give out the column heading cards and/ or tell them how many cards should be in each column. Then can then check their answers with a copy of the worksheets below.

Note that for the stress cards it doesn’t matter how many syllables the words have, e.g. a two-syllable word stressed on the first syllable matches a four-syllable word stressed on the first syllable, and so goes in the same column and counts as a match for pelmanism and snap.  

 

Nationality word syllables and stress games

Nationality words syllables and stress pelmanism

Students spread the cards face down on the table and take turns trying to find pairs of words which have the same number of syllables or have the same stressed syllable (depending on which pack of cards you gave them) when they have been converted into their nationality word adjective form. If the cards that they chose don’t match, they put the cards back face down in the same places and play passes to the next person.

 

Nationality words syllables and stress snap

Students deal out all the cards but don’t look at the words they have been given. They take turns turning over one card from the top of their pack and placing it on the table. If the adjective form of the country word on that card and of the previous card have the same number of syllables or the same stressed syllable (depending on which thing you are practising), students should race to shout “Snap”. If they are right, they can take all the cards that have been placed face up on the table up to that point. If they shout “Snap” when the last two words don’t match, they don’t win the cards and have to give two cards to the other players as a punishment.

When students have finished the pelmanism and/ or snap games, they can write the nationality words of all the country words and mark their number of syllables and/ or stress. They can also test each other on the words by:

  • saying a nationality word for their partner to say the number of syllables of or to say the stressed syllable of
  • saying a country word for their partner to say the nationality word of (with the right number of syllables and the right stress)
  • humming a number of syllables or stress pattern and then helping their partner come up with as many nationality words that match that pattern as they can

They could then play pelmanism and/ or snap again with the other set of cards.


Cards to cut up/ Suggested answers

The headings show the number of syllables or stress of the nationality word adjective that can be made from each country word below, so not necessarily the syllables or stress of the country word below.

 

Syllables version

 

Two syllables

 

 

Three syllables

 

Four syllables

 

 

Turkey

 

 

India

 

 

USA

 

 

Ireland

 

 

Austria

 

 

Australia

 

 

Poland

 

 

Cyprus

 

 

Mongolia

 

 

Denmark

 

 

Iraq

 

 

Brazil

 

 

Belgium

 

 

Israel

 

 

Italy

 

 

Spain

 

 

Norway

 

 

Peru

 

 

Germany

 

 

Kuwait

 

 

Ukraine

 

 

UK

 

 

Egypt

 

 

Pakistan

 

 

England

 

 

Croatia

 

 

Vietnam

 

Scotland

 

 

New Zealand

 

 

One syllable

 

 

Russia

 

 

Iceland

 

 

The Netherlands

 

 

Sweden

 

 

Japan

 

 

Switzerland

 

 

Finland

 

 

Portugal

 

 

The Czech Republic

 

 

Georgia

 

 

Taiwan

 

 

Thailand

 

 

China

 

 

Lebanon

 

 

Greece

 

 

Malta

 

 

Korea

 

France

 

Word stress version 

 

First syllable

 

 

Second syllable

 

 

Turkey

 

 

China

 

 

Ireland

 

 

Malta

 

 

Poland

 

 

Iraq

 

 

Denmark

 

 

Israel

 

 

Belgium

 

 

Norway

 

 

Spain

 

 

Kuwait

 


 

Germany

 

 

Egypt

 

 

UK

 

 

Croatia

 

 

Scotland

 

 

New Zealand

 


 

Russia

 

 

Iceland

 

 

Sweden

 

 

USA

 

 

Finland

 

 

Canada

 

 

Georgia

 

 

Australia

 

 

India

 

 

Mongolia

 

 

Austria

 

 

Brazil

 

 

Third syllable

 

 

Italy

 

 

Pakistan

 

 

Peru

 

 

North Korea

 

 

South Africa

 

 

Indonesia

 

 

Ukraine

 

 

Argentina

 

 

Fourth syllable

 

 

Ethiopia

 

 

Vietnam

 

 

Terms of Use

Lesson plans & worksheets can be used by teachers without any fee in the classroom; however, please ensure you keep all copyright information and references to UsingEnglish.com in place.

You will need Adobe Reader to view these files.

Get Adobe Reader


Trustpilot