Emerald Isle Celebrations
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Emerald Isle Celebrations

This lesson plan immerses C1-level ESL learners in the history and traditions of Saint Patrick's Day. Through discussions, vocabulary matching, video quizzes, gap-fill activities, and role-play dialogues, students develop advanced listening, speaking, and summarizing skills. The lesson plan emphasizes collaborative learning and cultural exploration, making it an engaging and informative topic for group lessons.

Skills

  • Can follow most lectures, discussions, and debates with relative ease.
  • Can frame a discussion to decide a course of action with a partner or group, reporting on what others have said, summarising, elaborating, and weighing up multiple points of view.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
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Discuss in pairs.

Discuss what you know about St. Patrick's Day and Ireland as a country in pairs or small groups. After 6 minutes, share your findings with the class.
2

Match the words with their definitions.

3

Watch the video about Saint Patrick's Day and do the quiz based on the facts you've learned.

4

In pairs, fill in the gaps in the summary of the video.

5

Choose one of the topics below and create a dialogue about it with your partner. Act it out in front of your class.

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