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Nationality Word Endings

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

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.

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Lesson Plan Content:


Nationality word endings pelmanism and snap

 

Instructions for teachers

Cut up one set of cards per group of 2 or 3 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 they might not have heard of or the trick cards.

Shuffle the cards and give out one pack to each group. Before you try any of the games, it is good to ask students to put the cards in columns by ending of the nationality word. If they get stuck, you can give out the column heading cards and/ or tell them how many cards are in each column. Then can then check with a copy of the worksheets.

Note that in all the activities it is only the ending of the nationality words which means that the words match, it doesn’t matter what is cut off the country word before the ending is added, changed in the country word before the ending is added, etc. 

 

Nationality word card games

Nationality word endings pelmanism

Students spread the cards out face down and take turns trying to find pairs of words which take the same ending when they are converted into nationality adjectives. If they are wrong, they put the cards back in the same place and play passes to the next person. They do the same round and round their group until all the remaining cards don’t match or the teacher stops the game.

 

Country and nationality words 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 nationality adjectives of the place on the last card and of the place on the previous card take the same ending, students race to shout “Snap”. If they do match, the first person who shouted “Snap” can take all the cards that are face up on the table. If they shout “Snap” when the last two words actually need different endings, they don’t win the cards and have to give two cards to the other players as a punishment.

 

After they have finished the game(s), students can write the nationality words for each country down and/ or test each other by:

  • Reading out a nationality word and seeing if their partner can make the country word
  • Reading out a country word and seeing if their partner can make the nationality word
  • Reading out a nationality word ending and helping their partner say as many examples of adjectives with that ending as they can, giving their partner hints like first letters and locations of suitable countries if needed

 


 

Cards to cut up/ Suggested answers

 

-(i/e)an

 

 

-ish

 

-i

 

Belgium

 

 

Spain

 

Pakistan

 

Germany

 

 

UK

 

Iraq

 

India

 

 

GB

 

Israel

 

Norway

 

 

England

 

Kuwait

 

Canada

 

 

Scotland

 

Oman

 

Russia

 

 

Ireland

 

Qatar

 

Mongolia

 

 

Turkey

 

Somalia

 

Argentina

 

 

Poland

 

Yemen

 

Australia

 

 

Sweden

 

-ch

 

Austria

 

 

Denmark

 

France

 

Brazil

 

 

Finland

 

Holland

 

Egypt

 

 

-ese

 

-k sound

 

Indonesia

 

 

China

 

Greece

 

 

 

Korea

 

 

Japan

 

Czech Republic/ Czechia

 

Italy

 

 

Vietnam

 

Iceland

 

Peru

 

 

Portugal

 

Greenland

 

South Africa

 

 

Taiwan

 

trick ones

 

Singapore

 

 

Burma

 

Thailand

 

Ukraine

 

 

Lebanon

 

Wales

 

Georgia

 

 

Malta

 

Cyprus

 

Croatia

 

 

Senegal

 

New Zealand

 

USA

 

 

Sudan

 

Switzerland

 

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