Student`s Worksheet 1 St. Patrick`s Day St. Patrick`s Day word search.

Student’s Worksheet 1
St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day word search.
Find the following:
♣ two symbols of good luck
(_l____, __r______)
♣ the name of an unfriendly dwarf-like creature who is said to live in Ireland
(l___e_____)
♣ the name of the capital city of Ireland
(______)
♣ two ways of celebrating St. Patrick’s Day
(______, _______)
♣ three things that people traditionally eat on St. Patrick’s Day
(__t_____, ___b___,_e__)
♣ an official symbol of Ireland
( _ _ _ p)
♣ a religious symbol of Ireland
(C_____ c____)
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Student’s Worksheet 2
St. Patrick’s Day
Irish jokes and riddles.
Check the meaning of the words marked in grey with your teacher or a dictionary. Match the questions to the
answers. Complete the riddles with words from the box.
h potato?
1. When is an Irish potato not an Iris
backwards.
a) Leprechaun
2. What does it mean when you fi
nd
a horseshoe?
green.
b) Because they’re always
3. Why is a river rich?
c) Some poor
is going barefoot.
4. What is a nuahcerpel?
fry.
d) When it’s a
5. Why do frogs like St. Patrick’s Day?
e) A sham
6. What do you call a fake stone in
Irel
and?
wearing
horse
banks
rock
f) Because it has two
French
.
.
spelled
source: http://holidays.kaboose.com/patrick-games-jokes.html
Which of the riddles is the funniest? Which one made you laugh? Talk to your partner and then to the class.
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Student’s Worksheet 3
St. Patrick’s Day
Story writing in groups.
Write a story (detective, humorous or a fairy tale) beginning with the sentence:
Two Dubliners, Patrick and Sean, went for an evening
stroll along the River Liffey...
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structions:
Follow the in
to
in your groups
1. Take turns
s in the story.
write sentence
only allowed to
Each person is
ence when it’s
write one sent
their turn.
must
ces you write
2. The senten
to
nnected the
be logically co
ence.
previous sent
e
must use thes
3. Each group
hoe,
es
rs
aun, ho
words: leprech
r, green,
4-leaved clove
ade.
cabbage, par
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