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Country Nationality Definitions Game

Culture/ Vocab- Nationality Words

 

What country do all the things from each box below come from (some are repeated)? What is the nationality word for each country, e.g. It’s a _____________ camera company?

 

Using sentences like the one above, take turns describing one of the things below. Can your partner guess which one you are describing? Make sure you use all the different nationalities.

 

Continue the game, but this time without your partner looking at the worksheet. Can they still guess what you are describing?

 

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Estee Lauder

Hertz

Haagen Daz

MOMA

Avon

Samsonite

Kleenex

Xerox

Kodak

Goodyear

DuPont

Mattell

Hallmark

Colgate

Costco

Citigroup

Caterpillar

Kelloggs

Big Foot

Motorola

Gillette

bourbon

Golden Gate

The Red Sox

Dell

Nike

JFK

Google

Apple

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_______________

YKK

Shimano

Kenwood

Citizen

Nissin

Pentel

Roland

Bridgestone Kikkoman

Pentax

JAL

Subaru

The Toyota Cup

Narita

sushi

Pocari Sweat

sake

Asahi Super Dry

Ajinomoto

Asahi Shimbun

Yamaha

Canon

Dentsu

Muji

Ken Watanabe

Shiseido

Tomy

Toray

Wacoal

______________

_______________

AXA

Carrefour

Danone

Volvic

Michelin

camembert

foie gras

cognac

champagne

Marseille

Paris St Germain

The Louvre

Claude Monet

BNP Paribas

Canal +

L’Oreal

Renault

Total

Vivendi

baguette

Corsica

Champs Elysee

The Seine

Bic

Printemps

Mont Saint Michel

Jean Reno

Alcatel

_______________

 

_______________

Wilkinson Sword/ Schick

Kit Kat

Virgin Atlantic

The Tate Modern

Dyson

Reuters

Rimmell

GlaxoSmithKline

Cadbury’s

BP

Land Rover

Dunlop

Heathrow

JCB

FTSE
Tesco

Ladbrokes

Oxfam

Winnie the Pooh

bulldog

Wedgewood

gravy

Harrods

Tower of London

Big Ben

gin

Earl Grey

roast beef

Parker

 

 

GM

Harley-Davidson

Northwest

George W. Bush

cola

Microsoft

Starbucks

Subway

Budweiser

Harvard

hamburger

San Francisco

Washington Post

The Mississippi

Intel

Dow Jones

Wrigley’s

Marlboro

Heinz

Tiffany

Duracell

M16

Colt

Smith and Wesson

the Blues

Eli Lilly

MAN

Gap

Boeing

ExxonMobil

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nintendo

Osaka

Fuji

Uniqlo

Nomura

Yakuza

Akita

Ricoh

Godzilla

Nikkei

Komatsu

Hello Kitty

 

 

Medicins sans frontiers

Bassett Hound

Chanel

Cartier

 

 

Raleigh

James Bond

Manchester United

Burberry

Liverpool

The Beatles

Jude Law

Scone

The Thames

cricket

Saville Row

David Beckham

 

 

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Adidas

DHL

Allianz

BASF

Bayer

Zeiss

T-Mobile

Grundig

Lowenbrau

Continental

Lufthansa

SAP

Stabilo

Wella

Poodle

Leica

SAP

Nivea

Triumph

Mauser

bierwurst

Hugo Boss

Hamburg

Audi

Berlin

_______________

 

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Diadora

Caritas

Olivetti

Beretta

San Pellegrino

the leaning tower

of Pisa

Pirelli

Francesco Totti

Rome

Ferrari

Gucci

pasta

Bulgari

Milan

Pirelli

Vespa

Iveco

Campari

Sicily

Espresso

Florence

Ferrero Roche

Monica Bellucci

 

 

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Golf

Auld Lang Syne

Gaelic

Haggis

Scotch

Loch Ness

Baxters

HBOS

Standard Life

Gleneagles

Shortbread

Celtic

Glasgow

Edinburgh

Kilt

Nessie

Sean Connery

bagpipes

 

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Schipol

ING

TNT

DAF

Heineken

Shell

Phillips

Gouda

Unilever

tulip

(wooden) clogs

Vincent Van Gogh

KLM

Amsterdam

 

_______________

 

 

_______________

Astra Zeneca

Malmo

Volvo

Tetra Pak

Nobel

Husqvarna

Securitas

Electrolux

Ericsson

smorgasbord

Abba

IKEA

Stockholm

 

_______________

 

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Camper

chorizo

Real Sociedad

Zara

bullfighting

Costa Del Sol

sangria

Seat

The Prado

Pablo Picasso

Antonio Banderas

paella

Madrid

Barcelona

Catalan

Flamenco

_____________

 

_______________

Incheon

Hite

Kookmin

Lotte

Samsung

Pusan

Seoul

Jinro

kimchi

Hyundai

Asiana

 

_______________

 

 

_______________

Logitech

Adecco

Bally

Romansch

Nestle

Credit Suisse

Roche

Schindler

Vitorinox

Swarovski

Red Cross

Saint Bernard

Swatch

Geneva

Nescafe

______________

 

_______________

Four Seasons

IMAX

Labatts

Sun Life

maple syrup

Toronto

Cirque de Soleil

Jacque Villeneuve

 

 

 

_______________

Olivia Newton John

BHP Billiton

Macquarie

Quantas

didgeridoo

Ayer’s Rock

kangaroo

Canberra

Crocodile Dundee

boomerang

Melbourne

Sydney FC

_______________

 

_______________

Singha

Jim Thompson

Red Bull (Krating Daeng)

Wat Po

Chang Mai

Bangkok

Phuket

tom yum

_______________

 

_______________

tortilla

tequila

mariachi

Cancun

Bimbo

Corona

Chihuahua

_______________

 

_______________

Hutchinson -Whampoa

Hang Seng

Golden Harvest

HSBC

South China-Morning Post

Cathy Pacific

Cantonese

Jackie Chan

Amoy

 

_______________

 

_______________

chess

Wipro

Hindustan Times

Infosys

Kingfisher

Gandhi

Mumbai

New Delhi

(Madras) curry

Star

lassi

Tata

Nan

_______________

 

_______________

Gazprom

Tupolev

Vladivostok

Rosneft

borscht (cabbage soup)

vodka

The Kremlin

Aeroflot

AK-47

MIG

 

_______________

 

_______________

Triads

Lenovo

shark’s fin soup

Tsingtao

Pekinese

Beijing

Shanghai

Jet Li

Tiananmen

oolong

kung fu

Mahjong

Mandarin

_______________

 

_______________

Mr Minit

Tinti

Godiva

Brussels

Ghent

Rene Magritte

Hercules Poirrot

the mannequin pis

 

 

_______________

 

_______________

cross country skiing

(= Nordic skiing)

Edvard Grieg

Edvard Munch

John Carew

Oslo _______________

 

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The Little Mermaid

Hans Christian Andersen

Carlsberg

Bang and Olufsen

LEGO

Maersk

Brigette Nielsen

_______________

 

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Varig

Petrobras

caipirinha

The Amazon

Ronaldo

Rio

Brasilia

Samba

Gilberto Gil

the girl from Ipanema

 

 

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Stout (e.g. Guinness)

AIB

Aer Lingus

Baileys

Jameson’s

Cork

Dublin

 

_______________

 

_______________

Garuda

Bali

Jakarta

_______________

 

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Genghis Khan

Asashoryu

Ulan Bator

_______________

 

 

Manila Times

San Miguel

Cebu

_______________

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salsa

rum

Havana cigars

Fidel Castro

_______________

 

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Acer

Taipei

_______________

 

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Efes

Arcelik

Cumhuriyet

Doner kebab

 

_______________

 

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De Beers

Cape Town

Nelson Mandela

_______________

 

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Petronas

Penang

Proton

Georgetown

Kuala Lumpur

rubber

_______________

 

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Finnair

Nokia

Helsinki

The Moomins

_______________

 

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the Yeti

Everest

Katmandu

Pokura

_______________

 

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Glock

Vienna

Salzburg

Sacher Torte

Adolf Hitler

_______________

 

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Reggae

Kingston

 

_______________

 

 

 

Kilimanjaro

 

 

 

Skype

Tallinn

 

 

Ricky Martin

 

 

Greyhound

Alexandria

Cairo

 

 

Zagreb

Dalmatian

 

 

Basra

Baghdad

 

Uzi

Tel Aviv