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This is my high school'ed version of Lana's St. Patrick's Day lesson.

St. Patrick's Day

• Native Speaker gives students a pop quiz on St. Patrick's Day. 5 minutes.
• Native Speaker goes over the pop quiz.  5 minutes.
• Native Speaker gives demonstration of St. Patrick's Day in Korea. 10 minutes.
• Native Speaker gives demonstration of St. Patrick's Day in Chicago. 5 minutes.
• Native Speaker introduces St. Patrick's Day and Irish Vocabulary.  10 minutes.
• Students perform Hidden Object worksheet.  5 minutes.
• Students perform Word Search worksheet.  5 minutes.
• Students perform Puzzle worksheet.  5 minutes.

Notes:

• I put my students into six teams and generated six separate word searches to avoid any cheating.
• The Hidden Object Puzzle is super easy for the high school kids but the word search and puzzle have a medium difficulty; in all classes at least two teams managed to make it all the way through.
• For the last part of the puzzle I have the kids come up to the board and write a list of leprechauns ordered from tallest to shortest.
• The vocabulary introduction can be a bit dry for the slow classes.  There are plenty of online videos out there to spice it up.

I used the photos from the Irish Association of Korea (yes they do have St. Patrick's Day here) and I used these online videos of dyeing the Chicago River:

• St. Patrick's Day Chicago, Dying the River Green
• WGN Radio - CityCam - The Chicago River Turns Green

The word search was generated via A to Z Teacher's Stuff where you could generate a four leaf clover word search.  And the Hidden Object picture was stolen from Highlight Kids.

More information about my lessons can be found here.