This document provides information about languages spoken in different countries. It includes a chart for students to fill out matching languages to countries. Students are then prompted to discuss the foods they like from other cultures and to survey their classmates on their knowledge of various countries and cultures by asking questions to find out if others can perform certain tasks like speaking multiple languages, naming capital cities, or identifying music and movies from other parts of the world.

1. Countries & Nationalities

2. Check the countries you hear.

3. Where do people speak these languages?
LANGUAGE COUNTRY LANGUAGE COUNTRY
English German
Italian Portuguese
Spanish Arabic
Korean Japanese
Turkish French
Russian Thai
Chinese

4. Complete the chart with languages and countries.
Compare your answers with a partner.
I can speak … I can’t speak … I want to go to …
Indonesian English Korea
a little Korean
Examples:
I’m Indonesian. I speak Indonesian and I can speak a little
Korean, but I can’t speak English. So, I want to go to South
Korea.

5. A. Do you like food from other countries? What kind of
food do you like?
B. Listen to Melissa talk about food. What types of food
does she like? Check ( ✅a) the boxes.

6. SURVEY
Do your classmates know a lot
about other countries and
cultures? Ask these questions to
find out.

7. can make Korean food
knows the titles of American movies
can speak three languages (What are they?)
like Arabic music
knows the capital city of the USA
can name three countries beginning with C
knows the names of American singers
knows the names of Asian singers
Example:
Can you make Korean food?
Yes, I can. or No, I can’t.
Find someone who …

8. Reference
McCarthy, M., McCarten, J., and Sandiford, H. 2007.
“Touchstone 1 - Student’s Book”. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press