A. Who speaks what where?
*the UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland)
I come from Argentina, so I’m Argentinian and my first language is Spanish. The capital is Buenos Aires, which has a population of more than 10 million people.
Common mistakes
He’s English. (NOT He’s english.); We ate French food. (NOT We ate France food.)
I went to the USA. (NOT I went to USA.) I also visited the UK. (NOT I also visited UK.)
B. Parts of the world
The continents in the world are Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, South America,
Australia [Australia and New Zealand] and Antarctica.
We also use these terms for different parts of the world:
the Middle East (e.g. United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia), the Far East (e.g. Thailand, Japan), the
Caribbean (e.g. Jamaica, Barbados), Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland).
C. The people
When we are talking about people from a particular country, we add ‘s’ to nationalities ending
in ‘-i’ or ‘-(i)an’, but we need the definite article (the) for most others.
With both groups we can also use the word ‘people’, e.g. Brazilian people, British people, etc.
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