Saint Patrick's Day

Introduction

The aim of this lesson is to give students practice in reading an article about St. Patrick's Day for specific information and then the opportunity to write about the customs and traditions of their own country's national day.
The plan is based around a text from the British Council LearnEnglish Central website at: http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/magazine/saint-patricks-day

The webpage also has a variety of online interactive activities.
We have also included the text for students and teachers without Internet access in class.

Topic

Saint Patrick's Day

Age/ Level

aged 13-17 and Adult (B2+)

Time

70 mins + 15 minute optional extension activity

Learning outcomes:

• Practice reading for detail
• Discover the significance of St Patrick's day
• Use subheadings to organise a written article
• Collaboratively write an article about a cultural event

Materials

• Lesson plan
• Reading text - for offline version
• Comprehension questions for online version 
• Comprehension questions for offline version
• Writing template - The lesson can be done without this for a low print lesson

For more information about this topic you can visit this BBC site:

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/saintpatrick/