2 Saying your name and nationality

Now have a go at Activity 2.

Activity 2

Figure 3

Listen to a variety of people giving their nationality and match their names to the correct nationality.

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Maria

espagnole

Margaux

française

Uwe

allemand

Daniel

belge

Anna

italienne

Using the following two lists, match each numbered item with the correct letter.

  1. Maria

  2. Margaux

  3. Uwe

  4. Daniel

  5. Anna

  1. espagnole

  2. française

  3. allemand

  4. belge

  5. italienne

The correct answers are:
  • 1 =
  • 2 =
  • 3 =
  • 4 =
  • 5 =

Comment

You already know a few nationalities and understand that if the writer is French (male), you would say ‘français’ and if the writer was French (female) you would say (‘française’). However, if the nationality already ends in -e, like ‘belge’ (Belgian), you don’t add a further -e for the feminine form. This means that the spelling is the same for masculine and feminine.

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