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International relations

Grammar: Словообразование (Word-formation)

Сөз жасау (Word-formation)

1. Work with the partner. Complete the table with the correct words.

Country

Nationality

Language

Argentina

Argentinian

Spanish

Brazil

Portuguese

France

French

German

German

Italy

Italian

Japan

Japanese

Polish

Polish

The United Kingdom

British

The ……..

American

English

Nationality words

Exercise 1. See how well you know the words which refer to a country (including the people who live there, and the language). Complete the word puzzle by reading the clues below. What is the country in the box?

E

K

E

P

T

E

W

D

N

I

L

K

E

S

R

B

1. Crete is a……….island.

2. The language spoken in Brazil.

3. A country in northern Europe.

4. The capital city is Colombo.

5. They live in the United States.

6. This language is spoken in the Middle East.

Exercise 2. In teams of four, work out five similar clues using nationality words and make five gapped sentences.

Examples: Warsaw is the capital of ...l..d

Make sure you check the spelling of the nationality words in a dictionary. Then give another team the questions and ask them to fill in the gaps.

Toshiba is a Japanese company. The headquarters are in Japan.

What about these companies?

1. Honda 6. L'Oreal

2.IBM 7.Rolls-Royce

3.Olivetti 8.Nestle

4.Ericsson 9.Siemens

5.Norsk Hydro 10.Philips

  • Read the saying below and discuss the questions:

Every country has its own customs”.

1.What does the saying mean?

2. Do you agree with it? Why? Why not?

Exercise 2. Every country has its own customs. Read these descriptions of some different social and business customs. Can you identify which nationality group they refer to? Match each description with one of these nationalities, the Japanese the French the Italians the Germans the Spanish the British

They are happy to borrow manners and style from anywhere as long as it is useful and, above all, elegant. They love new things; their homes and offices are full of gadgets. Interactive video, telephones, high speed trains, and modern architecture cause excitement not shock.

They leave work as punctually as they arrive and rarely take work home. They work hard, but statistically they put in fewer hours than fellow Europeans.

Lunches and dinners are an important part of business life. They are used to create personal relationships, and to make sure that the chemistry is right and that people can trust each other. Until coffee is served, they do not discuss business.

It is impolite to be exactly on time. For social occasions, this means arriving between ten and twenty minutes after the arranged time. Sometimes invitations specify, 7.30 for 8.00', which means you should not arrive later than 7.50.

They regularly work on Saturdays, don't often take more than a week's vacation, and count sick days as holiday.

The backbone of the economy is the thousands of small and medium sized private firms in the North. Their owners prefer independence, and it is more profitable to keep things in the family, pay workers in cash, and employ people who are officially self-employed, in order to make bigger profits and avoidstrikes.

(Source: Mind Your Manners: Managing Business Cultures in Europe by John Mole, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, London 1995)