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Ireland Stage 2

Before Reading 8 Fourteen marchers died in Derry.


9 They stopped eating because they wanted to be

activities answers
political prisoners.
Activity 1 before reading
10 It is an agreement to work together in the
Encourage students to speculate and make guesses.
government of Northern Ireland. The British
They will discover as they read that the correct
and Irish governments, Sinn Fein and the Ulster
answers are:
Unionists made it.
potatoes, dancing, beer, pubs, horses, Bob Geldof,
Vikings chApters 9 And 10 while reading

1 + h, 2 + a, 3 + e, 4 + I, 5 + c, 6 + g, 7 + d,
Activity 2 before reading
8 + b, 9 + f
1 F 2T 3F 4F 5T 6T
chApters 11 And 12 while reading

While Reading 1 F Jonathan Swift was a churchman in Dublin.


2 F Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize for this
chApters 1 And 2 while reading work in the theatre.
1 Most Irish people can sing. 3 T
2 Most of Ireland’s mountains are near the sea 4 F Bono is a famous Irish musician with a group
3 The Giant’s Causeway is made of strange rocks. called U2.
4 Life on the Aran Islands changes slowly. 5 T
5 In the north and west of Ireland it is warm and wet. 6 F Ireland has won the Eurovision Song Contest
6 Irish milk and meat are some of the best in the seven times.
world. 7 F Nearly half of Irish people are under twenty-five.
7 Irish people sell horses to many countries. 8 T
8 Many Celtic people wore gold rings around their 9 F Ireland is part of the European Union.
necks and arms. 10 T
9 Hurling is a popular Celtic game.
10 Irish is very different from English. After Reading
chApter 4 while reading
Activity 1 after reading
The correct order is: 6, 3, 1, 8, 4, 7, 2, 5
Bob Geldof: 2, 11, 18
chApter 5 while reading James Joyce: 5, 8, 15
1 Who . . .? King Henry the Second of England. Molly Malone: 1, 10, 16
2 What . . .? A plan to take land from the Catholic Patrick Pearse: 3, 7, 17
Irish and give it to Protestant Englishmen and Saint Patrick: 6, 12, 14
Scotsmen. William of Orange: 4, 9, 13
3 Who . . .? Oliver Cromwell. Possible answers:
4 When . . .? When three Protestant ships arrived with Bob Geldof was angry about the lives of poor people
food and soldiers. and wanted to change the world, so he planned some big
5 Who . . .? King William of Orange. concerts which made money for people in Africa.
6 Why . . .? To remember King Billy and the Battle of James Joyce was born in 1882 and wrote a book about
the Boyne. one day in Dublin, but he left Ireland and went to live in
France.
chApters 6, 7, And 8 while reading
Molly Malone was a poor but beautiful girl who sold
1 The Act of Union joined England and Britain.
cockles and mussels on the streets of Dublin, but she
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2 They died because there was no food.


died when she was young.
3 To remember how Irish people died in the 1840s.
Patrick Pearse was the leader of the Irish Nationalists
4 They wanted to help the Irish language, music, and
who took men to the Post Office on Easter Monday
games.
1916, but he died in Kilmainham Prison in Dublin.
5 Because they wanted to keep the Act of Union.
Saint Patrick learned about god in a French monastery,
6 Patrick Pearse said that Ireland was free, and six
but he came back to Ireland to teach the Irish about God
days of fighting followed.
and made Ireland an important Christian country.
7 In 1921.

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William of Orange is called King Billy by Protestant
Orangemen. He became King of Ireland after James
the Second, and won the Battle of the Boyne against the
Catholics.
Activity 2 after reading
activities answers

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L E A D E R
2
M O N K
3
S U R R E N D E R
4
L A N D
5
P R O T E S T A N T
6
V I K I N G
7
P R E S I D E N T
8
B E E R
9
P A R A D E
10
F A R M
11
H I S T O R Y

The hidden place name is Londonderry.


Activity 3 after reading

Hello from Dublin!


I arrived here on Friday and walked along the river
through the centre of town. I stopped at a pub and
drank some of Ireland’s famous beer called Guinness. It
was black and very strong! I looked at the Post Office,
which is famous for Easter Monday 1916. Then I visited
Trinity College to see Ireland’s oldest book, which is a
thousand years old. It was very beautiful. And just near
there I took a photo of the statue of Molly Malone
selling fish from her wheelbarrow.
Tomorrow I am going to visit the house of Ireland’s
President and walk in one of the biggest parks in
Europe.
Dublin is a wonderful city!
See you soon.
Etsuko
Activity 4 after reading

Both the Celts and the Vikings came to Ireland from


other countries – the Celts from France and Spain, the
Vikings from Norway. Both were strong fighters, but
the Celts also made beautiful jewellery.
The Celts arrived first, thousands of years ago. They
brought with them Celtic games, like hurling, and
also music. The Irish language, which some people
still speak in Ireland today, is Celtic too, but it is very
different from English. There are other Celtic languages
in Wales, Scotland, and parts of Europe.
The Vikings began to attack Ireland around 800. Often
they attacked the monasteries and stole the beautiful
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things that they found there. But some Vikings stayed


and built towns. Waterford, Dublin and Cork were all
Viking towns. They also went to live in the north of
Ireland in Ulster.
Activity 5 after reading

Open answers.

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