Monday, March 09, 2009

St. Patrick´s day & Ireland


After the video creation, it´s time to spend some time learning about English speaking countries. Ireland is probably one of the best destinations to pracrise your English. Have a go with these activies:

On March 17th, the Irish celebrate St. Patrick´s Day, which is becoming quite popular among other cultures and traditions. This website provides huge information about it (have a look at some surprising cultural facts, music bands, social customs,...) while ask you to compare traditions with Spain. We´ve got so many things in common...

Take this Irish Quiz:

1. When did St Patrick arrive in Ireland?
2. What happened in 800?
3. What began in 1167-9?
4. When did Henry VIII declare himself king of Ireland?
5. What happened in 1690?
6. When was the Easter Rising in Dublin?

Find the answers to these history questions with the information given above or at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/history/
Some more interesting sites.
http://newwww.guinness.com/All about Guinness.
http://www.u2.com/intro.htmlU2 fan site, includes lyrics.
http://www.iol.ie/~dluby/A wealth of resources.

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