2 Saying your name and nationality
Now have a go at Activity 2.
Activity 2
Listen to a variety of people giving their nationality and match their names to the correct nationality.
Transcript
Two lists follow, match one item from the first with one item from the second. Each item can only be matched once. There are 5 items in each list.
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Maria
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Margaux
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Uwe
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Daniel
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Anna
Match each of the previous list items with an item from the following list:
a.française
b.allemand
c.espagnole
d.italienne
e.belge
- 1 = c,
- 2 = a,
- 3 = b,
- 4 = e,
- 5 = d
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.
