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36 Countries, languages and people

All the nouns and adjectives in this unit always begin with a capital letter, for example
Africa [NOT africa].

The Continents
North
America
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ge” Canada. 5 De C Se
“ z - Q South ~y on ‘
USA
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my : f | / c ~ , .
; é Australia
Ma (a New
xi a“ Zealand
Antarctica
Countries

Norway
Sweden

Russia
Colombia
Venezuela
Ecuador

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Peru AS
Mongolia
Bolivia
Afghanistan

de——Japan Shile — — Urugua
Pakistan
It is not possible to show all the Pa : —_ Argentin:

countries of the world on a small page.
China Yak
If your country is not included, check '
India — Philippi
its English name with your teacher. & Tpi
Sri Lanka — H5
NX \ Thaitand
Peop le Bangladesh Ng Singapore
notes adjective

Most country adjectives German, Mexican, Jamaican, Russian, Canadian, ‘Australian,
end in (Dan. _ Brazilian, Egyptian, Peruvian, Korean, Argentinian

| Many country adjectives | British, English, Irish, Scottish, Polish, Swedish, Finnish,
end in ish, Spanish, Turkish
- A few country adjectives | Chinese, Portuguese, ‘Japanese, Vietnamese, Nepalese
: end in ese.

Exceptions: French (from France), Dutch (from Holland), Swiss (from Switzerland),
Greek, Iraqi, Thai, Icelandic, Arab, Israeli

Languages and people
Words for languages are usually the same as the ‘people’ adjective: English, French, Japanese,
Thai, Spanish, Chinese, Norwegian (from Norway), etc. There is one exception: Arabic.
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