St
Patrick’s
Day
SWOOSH
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How much do you know about this day?
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St Patrick’s Day Quiz
St Patrick is the Patron Saint of __________.
1. Ireland
2. the USA
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3. the UK
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St Patrick’s Day Quiz
The colour associated with
St Patrick’s Day is _____.
1. blue
2. green
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3. yellow
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St Patrick’s Day Quiz
St Patrick’s day is celebrated on ____,
the day he died.
1. June, 27
2. May, 17
3. March,17
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St Patrick’s Day Quiz
The first St Patrick’s parade took place
in _____ in 1762.
1. Ireland and England
2. the USA
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3. England
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St Patrick’s Day Quiz
Nowadays St Patrick’s festival
lasts _____.
1. 1 day
2. 3 days
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3. 5 days
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St Patrick’s Day Quiz
Corned beef, _____ are some of the
foods eaten this day.
1. bacon and lettuce
2. bacon and cabbage
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3. chicken and potatoes
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St Patrick’s Day Quiz
A ________ is known as a symbol of
Ireland, with St Patrick having used it
as a metaphor for the Christian Trinity:
Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
1. shamrock
2. a green hat
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3. a pot of gold
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St Patrick’s Day Quiz
Today when people think of St Patrick, they imagine a
___________ in a green jacket, hat, pipe, a shamrock and a
pot of gold.
1. dwarf
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2. giant
3. leprechaun
social
outcast
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Luck o’ the Leprechaun
• The St Patrick’s Day leprechaun is an Irish fairy.
• He looks like an old man and stands at around two feet
tall.
• Dressed in head-to-toe green, he
has a pair of pointy ears and
carries a big stick called a
shillelagh, which he uses to scare
anyone who tries to steal social
his gold.
outcast
• He is very lucky – he finds
the pot of gold at the end of
every rainbow.
self conscious
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Before reading
Can you guess the correct numbers?
St Patrick’s Day: history
10 * 16 * 60 * 6 * 12 * 30 * 13 * 1
1. ______ million people take part in St.Patrick’s
weight
festival
in
Dublin
every
year.
body image
conscious
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2. Patrick was a slave for ___ years.
shaved
3. He studied ___ years in a monastery.
4. When he was ___ years old he became a head
slave.
5. He worked ___ years in Ireland
establishing
lonely/alone
monasteries, schools and churches.
self conscious
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Reading about St Patrick’s
body image
Open your book on page 166 and find out more
self conscious
about this tradition…
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Before reading
Can you guess the correct numbers?
St Patrick’s Day: history
10 * 16 * 60 * 6 * 12 * 30 * 13 * 1
1 million people take part in St.Patrick’s festival
1. ___
weight
in
Dublin
every
year.
body image
conscious
punk hairstyle
6 years.
2. Patrick was a slave for ___
shaved
12 years in a monastery.
3. He studied ___
head
16 years old he became a slave.
4. When he was ___
30 years in Ireland
5. He worked ___
establishing
lonely/alone
monasteries, schools and churches.
self conscious
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Video about St Patrick’s
body image
punk hairstyle
shaved
head
social
outcast
lonely/alone
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After watching
Order the following sentences.
a) He was arrested several times, but he
escaped each arrest.
b) The original colour associated with St Patrick
was blue not green.
When he was a slave, he heard a voice
bodyc)image
encouraging him to leave.
d) He became a bishop.
e) St Patrick’s real name was Maewyn Succat.
f) Some myths: raising people from the dead
and driving snakes out of Ireland.lonely/alone
g)conscious
He was very successful at converting pagans
self
to Christianity.
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7
2
3
1
6
4
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