The French are proud ... The Irish are talkative ... The Italians are loud ... The Spanish are passionate ... The Germans ... The Swedish ...

The Americans ... The Japanese ... The Indians are ... This topic can be quite interesting if you have many different nationalities in class. Get the L2s to explain their choices. (Once again, the above are surely only applicable to the middle class in England, but it does not matter if the headings are not completely factual; the idea is to get the L2s thinking about approximate correspondences-and talking).