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Countries and nationalities

An AR classroom game for Grade 6. Learners can aim with their hands at the camera or play by tapping the screen.

This set has 4 rounds in an interactive matching activity.

Curriculum indicatorต 2.2 ป.6/1

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A look before you play

Sample questions

A few real prompts from the game to help you choose an activity for your class.

01
Match each country to its nationality.
- Thailand
- Japan
- China
- France
Read the explanation
Nationalities usually add an ending to the country's name - but not all of them.
02
Match each country to its capital.
- Thailand
- Japan
- England
- France
Read the explanation
A capital city is a proper noun and always takes a capital letter.
03
Match each country to its language.
- Thailand
- Korea
- Germany
- Spain
Read the explanation
In some countries the language and the nationality share a name; in others they do not.

Before you play

Game teaching guide

What children will practise

Practise countries, nationalities, languages and capitals (Japan, Japanese, Tokyo) and the words travel, culture, festival and tradition, noticing that proper nouns take a capital letter, unlike Thai (ต 2.2 ป.6/1).

What's in the worksheet

4 matching questions, 4 pairs each - Match China to Chinese and France to French - Match Japan to Tokyo and England to London - Match Germany to German and Spain to Spanish - Match festival to เทศกาล and tradition to ประเพณี

How to use it in class

Use in a countries-of-the-world unit, 5 minutes in team mode. - Show a world map on the projector and point to each country after its item - After item 1, have pupils notice the endings -ese, -ish and -an - After item 4, pupils describe a Thai festival: Songkran is a Thai festival. Play it linked to a class and the results go into the mark book.

Common sticking points

- Item 1: swapping Chinese and Japanese, both ending in -ese - Item 3: mismatching Germany when the language name can't be guessed - Item 4: swapping festival and tradition, since many Thai events are both