By the end of this 5 minutes, you can:

say where you are from, your nationality, and the language you speak — including the common spelling patterns and exceptions.

In English, country, nationality, and language are three different words — and they are not always predictable:

Country	Nationality	Language
England	English	English
France	French	French
Germany	German	German
Japan	Japanese	Japanese
Brazil	Brazilian	Portuguese
Bangladesh	Bangladeshi	Bengali

Common patterns: -ese (Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese) · -ish (Spanish, Swedish, British) · -ian (Brazilian, Italian, Australian) · -i (Israeli, Emirati)

Sentence patterns: I am from France. / I am French. / I speak French.

Task 1: What is the nationality?

Write the nationality for each country:
1. Australia · 2. Spain · 3. China · 4. Italy · 5. Brazil · 6. Portugal · 7. Sweden

Show answer

1. Australian · 2. Spanish · 3. Chinese · 4. Italian · 5. Brazilian · 6. Portuguese · 7. Swedish

Task 2: Spot the mismatch

Find the error in each sentence:
1. ‘She is from Brazil. She speaks Brazilian.’
2. ‘He is Japanese. He is from China.’
3. ‘I am from Australia. I speak Australian.’

Show answer

1. She speaks Portuguese (not Brazilian) · 2. He is Japanese means he is from Japan, not China — contradiction · 3. I speak English (Australian is a nationality, not a language)

Task 3: Ask and answer

Write the question and answer for each person:
Person A: from France, speaks French and English
Person B: from Bangladesh, speaks Bengali
Use: Where are you from? / What is your nationality? / What languages do you speak?

Show answer

A: I am from France. I am French. I speak French and English. · B: I am from Bangladesh. I am Bangladeshi. I speak Bengali.

Write 5 sentences about yourself (or an imaginary person): where you are from, your nationality, the language(s) you speak, and one sentence about why you are learning English. Use all three patterns: I am from… / I am [nationality]. / I speak…