9. Sınıfİngilizce

Students of Different Countries, Nationalities, and Languages — Çalışma Sayfası

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To ask and answer questions about a student's origin with Where are you from? and Which country do you come from?
To use be from, come from and live in correctly and to explain the difference between them
To distinguish a country name, a nationality adjective and a language name
To form sentences such as People in a country speak a language with the present simple
To use be plus a nationality with singular and plural subjects
To compare two students, two languages or two countries with comparatives
To use the definite article correctly with the United Kingdom, the United States and the Netherlands

From shows where somebody comes from, and in shows where somebody lives now. These two prepositions are never used in the same way.
A country name is a noun, but a nationality and a language are adjectives, so only the adjectives describe a person.
Nationality adjectives and language names always begin with a capital letter, even in the middle of a sentence.
People is plural, so the correct verb is speak, and the be verb with a plural subject is are.
Most country names take no article, but the United Kingdom, the United States and the Netherlands are exceptions.
A short adjective takes -er for the comparative, while a long adjective takes more before the whole word.
When two singular subjects are joined by and, the verb is plural, so two Japanese students are in the same class.
One language is used with the verb speak or learn, so we say People in Brazil speak Portuguese.

be from / come from + country or city of origin: I am from Japan. I come from Japan.
live in + city or country of residence: They live in Tokyo. We live in Turkey.
be + nationality: He is Brazilian. They are Turkish. She is not Spanish.
People in + country + speak + language: People in Egypt speak Arabic.
Country name = noun; nationality and language = adjectives; both begin with a capital letter
Comparative of a short adjective: adjective + -er + than: bigger than, easier than
Comparative of a long adjective: more + adjective + than: more international than, more difficult than
Equality with as: as + adjective + as: She is as tall as her sister.
the + country name only for the United Kingdom, the United States, the Netherlands

Using from with the verb live. Students write I live from Rome, but in English from shows origin, so the correct sentence is I live in Rome.
Leaving out the article before a nationality noun. I am Turkish student is incomplete, because an adjective before a singular countable noun needs the indefinite article first.
Adding an ending to the verb after a plural subject. People speaks Turkish is wrong, since the plural subject people takes the base form of the verb.
Using a country name as a nationality. She is Japan cannot describe a person, because a nationality must be an adjective such as Japanese.
Forming a comparative with more and a short adjective. More big is never correct, because a short adjective builds its comparative with the ending -er on its own.
Writing a nationality or a language in lower case. Turkish and English always begin with a capital letter, even when they stand in the middle of a sentence.

Say the country name, then the nationality, then the language as a drill: Japan, Japanese, Japanese and Japan, Japanese, Japanese again.
Write five short sentences about your own classmates and check every capital letter in the nationality and the language.
Use the pattern People in plus the country plus speak plus the language whenever you describe a new country.
When you are not sure about a nationality, remember that countries ending in -land almost always take the -ish ending.
Replace every more plus a short adjective in your notes with the -er form, because that combination is always wrong.
Test yourself by asking Where are you from? and What language do you speak? about the same person in one breath.