Super Simple Questions
Where Are You From?
Let's Begin!
Dialogue 1
Practice the dialogue with your partner.
Student A: Hi, Pablo.
Student B: Hey, Marie.
Student A: Where are you from?
Student B: I'm from Mexico. How about you?
Student A: I'm from France.
Dialogue 2
Practice the dialogue again with your own information.
Student A: Hi, .
Student B: Hey, .
Student A: Where are you from?
Student B: I'm from . How about you?
Student A: I'm from .
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Let's Learn!
NATIONALITIES
A. Speaking B. Writing
Repeat these countries Practice writing all of the countries and nationalities of your classmates.
and nationalities. Countries and nationalities begin with a capital (big) letter.
# Flag Sentences # Flag Sentences
• I am from America. (country) • She is from Iran.
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• I am American. (nationality) • She is Iranian.
• I am from Australia. • She is from Italy.
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• I am Australian. • She is Italian.
• I am from Britain. • They are from Japan.
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• I am British. • They are Japanese.
• I am from Canada. • They are from Korea.
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• I am Canadian. • They are Korean.
• He is from Brazil. • They are from Pakistan.
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• He is Brazilian. • They are Pakistani.
• He is from China. • They are from Russia.
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• He is Chinese. • They are Russian.
• He is from Croatia. • We are from Saudi Arabia.
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• He is Croatian. • We are Saudi Arabian.
• He is from France. • We are from Spain.
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• He is French. • We are Spanish.
• She is from Germany. • We are from Syria.
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• She is German. • We are Syrian.
• She is from Greece. • We are from Thailand.
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• She is Greek. • We are Thai.
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Let's Practice!
Dialogue 3 Dialogue 4
Practice the dialogue with your partner. Practice the dialogue with your partner.
Student A: Hello, Neve. Student A: Nice to meet you, Keiko.
What's your nationality?
Student B: Hi, Miguel.
Student B: I am Japanese. How about you?
Student A: What's your nationality?
Student A: I am American.
Student B: I'm French. How about you?
My mom and dad are from Poland.
Student A: I'm Spanish.
Student B: Poland? What languages do you speak?
Student B: Oh, you're from Spain.
Student A: I speak Polish, French, and English.
Student A: Yes, I am.
Dialogue 5
Today's Questions & Answers
Practice the dialogue again with your own information. • Where are you from?
• I am from Canada.
Student A: Hi, .
(name) • What's your nationality?
• I am Canadian.
Student B: Hi, .
(name) • What languages do you speak?
• I speak English and French.
Student A: Where are you from?
Student B: I'm from .
(country)
Student A: Oh. You're .
(nationality)
Student B: Yes. How about you?
Student A: I'm . I speak .
(nationality) (language / languages)
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Answer Key
LESSON DESCRIPTION: LEVEL: Pre Beg
After doing this lesson, students will be able to answer where they TIME: 1 hour
are from and what their nationality is. They will also be able to
TAGS: functional English, absolute beginner, true beginner,
ask others about their nationality and the languages they speak.
name, introductions, basic nouns, nouns, dialogue
This lesson introduces nations, nationalities, and languages.
Let's Begin! Let's Practice!
In Dialogue 1, have students listen to the recording of the dialogue. In Dialogues 3 and 4, have students listen to the dialogues before
Then have students read the dialogue out loud in pairs. Next, they read the dialogues out loud in pairs. Then have them switch
ask students to switch roles (A and B) and read it out loud again. roles (A and B) and read them out loud again. In Dialogue 5, have
In Dialogue 2, have them read the dialogue out loud in pairs with them read the dialogue out loud in pairs with their own information,
their own information, and then get them to switch roles. and then get them to switch roles. Make sure that your students
can say their own country, nationality, and language(s) easily.
Let's Learn!
If you think your students can handle it, have them walk around
the classroom and practice the dialogue with various partners.
Review or introduce the countries and nationalities in English by
having students repeat after the recorded voice (or after you).
Tell your students that countries are nouns and nationalities
Today's Questions & Answers
are adjectives, but they both take capital letters. Tell them that
There are many ways you could use these questions and
languages also take capital letters. If you want to teach your
answers to review what students have learned in this lesson.
students when to use lowercase and uppercase letters, check out:
https://esllibrary.com/resources/2152. • Have students read the questions and
answers out loud with a partner or as a class.
Next, get students to practice writing the countries and
• Have students copy the questions
nationalities of the students in your class. If all of the students
and answers into their notebooks.
are from one country, ask them to practice writing the countries
• Have students review the questions and answers at home.
and nationalities of famous people. Use ESL Library's Famous
• Review the questions and answers in class the next day.
People flashcards as prompts. (E.g., Where is Malala Yousafzai
• Encourage students to use the questions
from? Where is Madonna from? Where is Nelson Mandela from?)
and answers outside of the classroom.
https://esllibrary.com/flashcard_genres/5/flashcard_categories/119
• Encourage students to add the questions
and answers to their Vocabulary Word Bank:
https://esllibrary.com/resources/2173
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Assessment / Review Tasks SPELLING NOTE:
This lesson shows the American spelling of the word Practice.
Here are some suggested review or evaluation tasks. Most other English-speaking countries spell it this way: Practise
Find Assessment Task forms in our Resources section. (when used as a verb; Practice when used as a noun). Make it a
https://esllibrary.com/resources challenge for your students to find this word in the lesson and
see if they know the alternate spelling.
TASK 1
Have students write out the country
and nationality of ten famous people.
TASK 2
Ask students to tell you what languages people traditionally speak
in certain countries. (e.g., What language do people speak in France?
What languages do people speak in Australia? What languages do
people speak in Poland?)
TASK 3
Place a Famous People flashcard on the back of each student.
https://esllibrary.com/flashcard_genres/5/flashcard_categories/119
Play "Who Am I?" and assess your students as they play. Students
have to guess who they are by asking each other Yes/No questions.
(e.g., Where am I from? What language do I speak? How old am I? Am I
a girl? Am I an actress? Am I a politician?) Place the questions on the
board. Classmates can estimate the age when they respond. (E.g.,
You are in your thirties. You are in your twenties.) When students are
ready to guess who they are, they have to come up to the teacher to
guess. They have to state their country and nationality and at least
one other fact. Then they can take a guess. (e.g., I am from Pakistan.
I am Pakistani. I am a young girl. Am I Malala Yousafzai?) If your
students guess correctly, they can receive a new famous person,
or they can help answer other classmates' questions.
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