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Module __________________________

COUNTRIES AND NATIONALITIES

 

ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY

 

Ex.1. Find out how much you know about the world countries. Put down the transcription for the names of the countries:

 

  Country Transcription Capital Nationality Language
1. Afghanistan   Kabul Afghan Pashtu, Dari
2. Albania   Tirane Albanian Albanian, Greek
3. Angola   Luanda Angolan Portuguese, Bantu
4. Argentine   Buenos Aires Argentine Spanish
5. Bangladesh   Dhaka Bangladeshi Bangla
6. Barbados   Bridgetown Barbadian English
7. Bolivia   Sucre Bolivian Spanish, Aymara
8. Brazil   Brazilia Brazilian Portuguese
9. Cambodia   Kampuchea Cambodian Khmer
10. Canada   Montreal Canadian English, French
11. Chile   Santiago Chilean Spanish
12. Colombia   Bogota Colombian Spanish
13. Costa Rica   San Jose Costa Rican Spanish
14. Sri Lanka   Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte Sri Lankan Sinhala, Tamil
15. Cyprus   Nicosia Cypriote Greek, Turkish
16. Ecuador   Quito Ecuadorian Quechua
17. Egypt   Cairo Egyptian Arabic
18. Ethiopia   Addis Ababa Ethiopian Amharic, Tigrinya, Oromigna, Guaragigna
19. French Guiana   Cayenne French Guianese French
20. Gibraltar   Gibraltar Gibraltarian Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian
21. Grenada   St Georges Grenadian English
22. Greenland   Nuuk (Godthab) Greenlander Greenlandic
23. Guatemala   Guatemala City Guatemalan Quiche, Cakchiquel, Spanish
24. Guinea   Conakry Guinean French
25. Haiti   Haiti Haitian French
26. Honduras   Teguicigalpa Honduran Spanish, Amerindian dialects
27. Iceland   Reykjavik Icelander Icelandic
28. Indonesia   Jakarta Indonesian  
29. Iran   Tehran Iranian Persian and Persian dialects
30. Iraq   Baghdad Iraqi Arabic, Kurdish
31. Ireland   Dublin Irish English
32. Israel   Tel Aviv Israeli Hebrew
33. Jamaica   Kingston Jamaican English, Creole
34. Korea (South)   Seoul Korean Korean
35. Korea (North)   P'yongyang Korean Korean
36. Kuwait   Kuwait City Kuwaiti Arabic
37. Lebanon   Beirut Lebanese Arabic
38. Liberia   Monrovia Liberian English
39. Libya   Tripoli Libyan Arabic, Italian, English
40. Madagascar   Antananarivo Malagasy Malagasy
41. Malaysia   Kuala Lumpur Malay Bahasa Melayu, Tamil, Telugu
42. Macedonia   Skopje Macedonian Macedonian 70%, Albanian 21%, Turkish 3%, Serbo-Croatian 3%, other 3%
43. Maldives   Male Maldivian Maldivian Dhivehi
44. Mali   Bamako Malian Bambara
45. Malta   Valletta Maltese (singular and plural) Maltese
46. Mexico   Mexico City Mexican Spanish, various Mayan,
47. Monaco   Monaco Monegasque English, Italian, Monegasque
48. Mongolia   Ulan Bator Mongolian Khalkha Mongol 90%, Turkic, Russian
49. Morocco   Rabat Moroccan Arabic, Berber dialects
50. Mozambique   Maputo Mozambican Portuguese
51. Nepal   Kathmandu Nepalese (singular and plural) Nepali
52. New Zealand   Wellington New Zealander English, Maori
53. Nicaragua   Managua Nicaraguan Spanish
54. Pakistan   Islamabad Pakistani Punjabi, Sindhi, Siraiki
55. Panama   Panama City Panamanian Spanish, English
56. Paraguay   Asuncion Paraguayan Spanish, Guarani
57. Peru   Lima Peruvian Spanish, Quechua, Aymara
58. Philippines   Manila Filipino Filipino (based on Tagalog) and English, Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocan, Hiligaynon or Ilonggo, Bicol, Waray, Pampango, Pangasinense
59. Portugal   Lisbon Portuguese (singular and plural) Portuguese
60. Saudi Arabia   Riyadh Saudi Arabic
61. Serbia/Montenegro (Yugoslavia)   Belgrade Serb; Montenegrin Serbian, Albanian
62. Singapore   Singapore Singaporean Chinese, Malay
63. Slovenia   Ljubljana Slovene Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian
64. Sudan   Khartoum Sudanese (singular and plural) Arabic (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, English
65. Syria   Damascus Syrian Arabic, Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic
66. Taiwan   Taipei Chinese (singular and plural) Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese
67. Thailand   Bangkok Thai (singular and plural) Thai, English
68. Tunisia   Tunis Tunisian Arabic, French
69. Turkey   Ankara Turk Adj: Turkish Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, Armenian, Greek
70. United Arab Emirates   Abu Dhabi Emirati Arabic (official), Persian, English, Hindi, Urdu
71. Venezuela   Caracas Venezuelan Spanish
72. Zimbabwe   Harare Zimbabwean Shona, Sindebele

Ex.2. Travelling between the cities below, by the shortest possible land route, which countries would you pass through? And what nationality of people would you see most of? Name four countries for each journey.

From Tel Aviv to Ankara Israel Israeli

The Lebanon Lebanese

Syria Syrian

Turkey Turkish

From Bucharest to Dresden Romania Romanian

Hungary Hungarian

Czechia Czech

Germany German

Ex.3. Which countries have the currencies listed below? And what nationality are most of the people who have that kind of money in their pockets?

 

rand South Africa South African

yen Japan Japanese

renminbi ChinaChinese

rial Iran Iranian

markkaFinland Finnish

zloty Poland Polish

drachma Greece Greek

baht Thailand Thai

guilder Holland Dutch (The Netherlands)

Rouble Russia Russian

 

Ex.4. English is an easy language, so most of the words denoting nationality, except those ending -ish or -ese can be used as an adjective or as a noun:

She's Italian / She's an Italian.

He's Israeli / He's an Israeli.





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