Khomutets Secondary School

“LET’S CATCH THE

LEPRECHAUN”

Prepared by:

Iryna Dobryak

2016

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LET’S CATCH THE LEPRECHAUN

Objectives: to teach new lexical units, to speak about the ways of celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, it’s symbols and history, to review the numbers and colours, to train reading, writing, speaking and listening-comprehension skills, to educate interest to traditional holidays of the English-speaking countries and desire to learn English.

Visual Aids: badges “Shamrocks”, the manes of the teams (“Shamrocks”, “Rainbows” and “Leprechauns”), the map of “Symbols of St. Patrick’s Day”, word search cards, three “old ladies”, set of cards for “Crazy Old Ladies” game, cards with numbers, the poster of the leprechaun, leprechaun hat, poem for reading, shamrocks +1 (additional points to the mark), the leprechaun trap.

PROCEDURE I. Preliminaries

Greetings

Aim

II. Warming Up

Questions 1. What date is it today? 2. Who can explain why I asked you to put on green clothes? 3. Have you ever heard about the holiday that is celebrated on the 17th of March?

St. Patrick’s Day story St Patrick's Day is celebrated annually on March 17th. St. Patrick is the beloved

patron saint of Ireland. St Patrick was born in Britain and that at the age of 16 was captured by Irish raiders who attacked his family's estate. He was then transported to Ireland where he was held captive for six years, living a lonely life as a shepherd. Once a voice, which he believed to be that of God, spoke to him in a dream, urging him to leave Ireland. Walking nearly 200 miles, Patrick escaped to Britain and undertook seriously religious training. After 15 years of study, Patrick was ordained as a priest and sent to Ireland. His mission was to bring Irish to Christianity.

III. The Main Part

Vocabulary Work 1. Look at the symbols of St. Patrick’s Day. Pronouns the words after the teacher. 2. Word Search.

Listening-Comprehension I divide students into three groups (7 in each team). Every team has a name

(“Shamrocks”, “Rainbows” and “Leprechauns”) and a captain. On the desks there are “Crazy Old Ladies” and a set of cards (separate for each team). Children listen to the text and put the card they hear into the Old Lady’s mouth. The

team which has put all the necessary cards gets the point.

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“Crazy Old Ladies” In one magic country there lived three old ladies. They live there even nowadays. They

are Emma, Daisy and Alison. I must say they are really crazy, because they like to eat everything. Just imagine! The old lady Emma ate a rainbow yesterday! The old ladies Daisy and Alison were very hungry. They ate leprechauns and shamrocks.

For many times Emma and Daisy ate pots of gold, but they were not very tasty. Alison liked to eat Irish flags every morning. Daisy often ate hats and rainbows. Every Sunday three old ladies Emma, Daisy and Alison ate St. Patrick. So what have they eaten?

The list of cards: Rainbow Pot of gold Leprechaun Shamrock Irish flag St. Patrick Hat

Emma: rainbow, pot of gold, St. Patrick

Daisy: rainbow, leprechaun, shamrock, pot of gold, St. Patrick

Alison: leprechaun, shamrock, Irish flag, St. Patrick

Speaking Speak about the symbols of St Patrick’s Day and tell which of them you like the most

and why. The one who speaks puts on a leprechaun hat.

Numbers Revision Children get the cards. The teacher names different numbers. The children’s task is to

find all of the numbers.

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Reading Pre-reading

There is a Leprechaun poem on the blackboard. The captain takes four members of the team (5 people from each team take part in the contest). Each team reads the poem in turns (the captain decides how to read).

While reading

When St. Patrick’s Day is near, The leprechauns come out, I hear. Little leprechauns are not tall. No, they are very, very small. Leprechauns like the color green. And they are hardly ever seen. At the end of a rainbow you may find, The leprechauns have left their gold behind. If I find a leprechaun, you see, He must share his pot of gold with me. After reading

The other two players who left in the team should name the words that rhyme.

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One point is given to the team who made the less mistakes in reading and the other point is given to the team that maned all the words that rhyme correctly (it can be the same team).

Writing Children get the cards to write in. Their task is to finish the sentence quickly and

grammatically correct (“If I had a pot of gold, I would…”) IV. The Final Part

Summaries There is a leprechaun trap on the table with a rainbow in it.

- Well, my dear, you were good/great today! You have done all of the tasks I had prepared for you. I think we have something in our trap (the teacher opens the trap. There is a leprechaun there). We have caught the leprechaun! What should he give us now? (Children answer: “the pot of gold”. The teacher shows kids the pot of gold. There are “golden” coins in it. Every child gets a coin +3 to the mark that can be added to the mark for the next lesson).

Home task

Marks

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APPENDIX

Names of the teams

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Writing

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Listening-Comprehension

The “Crazy Old Ladies”

The “Crazy Old Ladies” cards (black & white and colourful variants)

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Reading

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Word Search

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Badges “Shamrocks”

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Numbers

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Summaries

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ST. PATRICK’S DAY SYMBOLS

Irish rainbow

flag

Saint Patrick

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hat

shamrock

pot of gold leprechaun