1. Countries.

Listen to how these countries are pronounced.

Put the countries into the boxes below, depending on which syllable is pronounced.

2. Nationalities.

Can you write the nationality for each country?

Now listen and check your answers.

3. Word stress.

Look at these two examples.

POland POlish
JaPAN JapanESE

In the first example, the stress is on the first syllable of the country (POland) and the stress is also on the first syllable of the nationality (POlish). The position of the stress is the same.

In the second example, the stress is on the second syllable of the country (JaPAN), but it is on the third syllable of the nationality (JapanESE). The position of the stress is different.


Is the position of the stress on the countries below on the same place as the nationality? Listen and do this exercise.


4. Pronunciation: Countries and nationalities.

Listen to, repeat and record the words. Copy the correct word stress.

Complete the table. Then listen, and practise saying the country and nationality words. Copy the correct word stress.