Students of Different Countries, Nationalities, and Languages nedir?

Bu konuda neler öğreneceksin?

• 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

Anahtar fikirler

• 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.

Konunun özeti

We practise be from and come from for origin, live in for residence and be plus a nationality for belonging to a country. Students learn to tell a country name, a nationality and a language apart, to use the pattern People in a country speak a language, to keep nationality and language words capitalised, and to compare two countries, languages or classmates with comparatives and with as. They also learn that most countries take no article, while the United Kingdom, the United States and the Netherlands do.

Sık yapılan hatalar

• 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.

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