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Student’s Worksheet 1St. 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 offi cial symbol of Ireland( _ _ _ p)

♣ a religious symbol of Ireland ( C _ _ _ _ _ c _ _ _ _ )

W K B E E F A W C O R N D

G A G W V H I D H F H P C

D A R D U H E A I S L A E

E O C Y R O V N C H D D L

S P L E P R E C H A U N T

E R O E C S N I E R B Y I

M H V K V E B N N P L Q C

E K E L B S T G N B I U C

G D R P E H Y H C J N E R

O Y U O P O T A T O E S O

P A R A D E D B E L F E S

O C A B B A G E A F R U S

T R A D I F E H M I C H A

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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.

Student’s Worksheet 2St. Patrick’s Day

wearing horse banks rock French spelled

source: htt p://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.

1. When is an Irish potato not an Irish potato?

a) Leprechaun backwards.

2. What does it mean when you fi nd a horseshoe?

b) Because they’re always green.3. Why is a river rich?

c) Some poor is going barefoot.

4. What is a nuahcerpel?

d) When it’s a fry.

5. Why do frogs like St. Patrick’s Day?

e) A sham .

6. What do you call a fake stone in Ireland? f) Because it has two .

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Student’s Worksheet 3St. 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...

Follow the instructions:

1. Take turns in your groups to

write sentences in the story.

Each person is only allowed to

write one sentence when it’s

their turn.

2. The sentences you write must

be logically connected to the

previous sentence.

3. Each group must use these

words: leprechaun, horseshoe,

4-leaved clover, green,

cabbage, parade.