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Exercises

Ways of learning nationality and language adjectives. Some adjectives can form regiona:
groups, e.g. Latin American countries are almost all described by -(i)an adjectives.
1 Complete this list of Latin American adjectives. Look at a world map if you have tc
Brazilian, Chilean,. . .
2 The same applies to former European socialist countries and parts of the former So =
Union. Complete the list. Hungarian, Armenian,. . .
3 What other regional groupings can you see on the left-hand page? (eg many -ish
adjectives are European)
Famous names. Can you name a famous ...

Example: Argentinian sportsman or woman? Diegc Maradonna
1 Chinese politician?
2 Black Southern African political figure?
3 Polish person who became a world religious leader?
4 Italian opera singer?
5 Irish rock-music group?

All these nationality adjectives have a change in stress and/or pronunciation from the te
of the country. Make sure you can pronounce them. Use a dictionary for any you don I
know. Use phonetic script if possible (see Unit 5).
Example: Iran + Iranian /r'rernxan/ (US = /rlraenran/)
1 Panama + Panamanian 4 Jordan + Jordanian
2 Cyprus + Cypriot 5 Egypt + Egyptian
3 Ghana + Ghanaian 6 Fiji + Fijian

Correct the mistakes in these newspaper headlines.

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Madonna to marry a French? POLICE ARREST DANISH
Holly~ood sensation! Vietnamian a SMUGGLING CHARGE _
- lraqian delegation mec

Pakistanian Presiden

1 What are the main ethnic groups in Malaysia?
2 Which countries, strictly speaking, are in Scandinavia?
3 What are the five countries with the highestjopulation?
4 How many languages are there in the world?
5 Where is Kiribati?
6 Where do people speak Inuit?
7 What are the five most widely spoken languages?
Follow-up: Make sure you can describe your nationality, country, region, ethnic group,
language(s), etc. in English.

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