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Exercises
41.f Answer these questions without looking at the opposite page.
DOWONINN BR What are people from Holland called?
Write down three countries where the first language is English.
PR
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What language is spoken in Brazil?
Write down three languages spoken in Switzerland.
What language is spoken in Saudi Arabia?
What nationality are people from Sweden?
What language is spoken in Mexico?
What is the first language in Israel?
= What are people from Egypt called?
Where do people speak Mandarin?
41.2 Mark the main stress on the words in the box, and practise saying them.
Japan Japanese Brazilian Egyptian Arabic Italian
Austria Australia Chinese Portuguese Saudi Arabia
What do you notice about the stress on words ending -ia, -ian, and -ese?
41.3 Complete these sentences with the name of the people from the country on the right.
Examples: I’ve worked a lot with ..Aermans....... G
I’ve spent a lot of time with . the. French... ermany
France
1 We do a lot of business with .......00.0000..00.... Japan
Dei eeeeeeees are usually hard-working. Israel
3 Ihave always found .......0.0..0000..... very friendly. Brazil
4 People often say that ........0..0.000..... are reserved. Britain
Sees are very organised. Switzerland
6 Imeta lot of 2.00... on my trip to Athens. Greece
41.4 Complete these sentences.
1 Bangkok is the capital of ....0....0000000000000.. . 6 Riyadh is the capital of 200000. .
2 Buenos Aires is the capital of ....00....00000... . 7 Athens is the capital of ....0000000000. .
3 Ankara is the capital of 0000.0... . 8 Tel Aviv is the capital of 000.000. .
4 Seoul is the capital of oe . 9 Stockholm is the capital of ...000000000000.... .
5 Cairo is the capital of 0.0.0... 10 Lisbon is the capital of 0.0.0.0... .
Can you identify these languages?
= d spabernhepiree 4 aa 7 aoede dag 10 Benson
2 ataseala 5 féla gov = 8s Hola 1 He; !
3 Gao 6 4 ha 9 rez)
41.6 Have you met someone from each of the countries on the opposite page? Go through the list
and tick the ones you have.
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