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:
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.
