About 38 country names and nationality words PDFs and teaching ideas, concentrraing on ones that my students find difficult like Belgium/ Belgian and Britain/British.
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Teaching countries and nationalities vocabulary articles
How to teach country and nationality words
15 fun activities for country and nationality words
Photocopiable countries and nationalities vocabulary classroom activities
Describing football World Cup teams and countries games – NEW
Guess the country warmer cooler guessing game
What places used to be called trivia quiz (used to and names of places, with some country names)
Country and nationality word stress mazes
Nationality words syllables mazes
Country and nationality words drawing games
Nationality words syllables and stress card games (with pelmanism and snap)
Nationality Word Endings Mazes
Nationality word endings pelmanism and snap
Country and nationality words sentence completion games (bluffing game and two guessing games)
Comparing places random pelmanism (comparatives with places names and adjectives, including nationalities)
Groups of countries brainstorming and guessing games
Being positive and negative about food from other countries (likes and dislikes, describing food, and country and nationality words)
Country and nationality words with have, like and want Make me say yes game
Brainstorming country and nationality words game
Country and nationality words guessing game (with cultural information about Singapore, but easily adaptable to other countries that the students are interested in)
Country and nationality words practice mini-presentations
Countries and nationalities make me say yes personalised speaking game
Country and nationality words reversi
Country and nationality words statements bluffing game
Nationality words like and don’t like bluff
Food from different countries bluffing game (with nationality words and reported speech)
Discussion questions to practise country and nationality words
Modals of deduction guess the country
Country and nationality words bluffing game
Guess the country from the companies etc
The last two pages of A/ An for describing your company and job (an updated version of the worksheet above)
Guess from the nationality and other definitions game
Guess the country from the weather game
Where is…? I don’t know game (personal and trivia questions to practise prepositions and names of places, including a few countries)
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Cultural training EFL games/ worksheets (many guessing the country and so useful for this language point)
Updated 9 June 2026
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