Saint Patrick’s Day Vocabulary

PART 1: Directions: Match the columns. Write the correct letter on the lines.
1. _______ green a. Irish dance
2. _______ shamrock b. a religious worker
3. _______ good luck c. a special day of the year
4. _______ parade d. a type of meat
5. _______ leprechaun e. a yellow condiment
6. _______ jig f. abbreviation for saint or street
7. _______ corned beef g. an Irish Saint
8. _______ cabbage h. an oval or round vegetable
9. _______ potato i. clover
10. _______ mustard j. country in the Atlantic Ocean
11. _______ Ireland k. eating, drinking, playing music
12. _______ Irish l. good fortune
13. _______ island m. a leafy green vegetable
14. _______ holiday n. land surrounded by water
15. _______ March o. little Irish fairy
16. _______ missionary p. a stone in Blarney castle, Ireland, said to
make those who kiss it proficient in the use
of blarney (eloquence)
17. _______ St. q. people marching / procession
18. _______ Dublin r. Saint Patrick’s Day
19. _______ celebrating s. the capital of Ireland
20. _______ Saint Patrick t. the official color of Ireland
21. _______ colcannon u. an Irish dish of mashed potatoes and
cabbage, seasoned with butter
22. _______ Blarney Stone v. people from Ireland
PART 2: Unscramble the words below.
1. snait - 8. lbuind -
2. riihs - 9. wanbroi -
3. ayernbl - 10. amkorchs -
4. teosn - 11. aerdpa -
5. raemlde - 12. nolncaocn -
6. elnruaceph - 13. ulck -
7. dlog - 14. bfltsae -

PART 3: Let’s watch a video on the Blarney Stone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ScM
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PART 4: WRITING LIMERICKS
A limerick is a humorous poem consisting of five lines. The first, second, and fifth lines must have seven to
ten syllables while rhyming and having the same
verbal rhythm. The third and fourth lines only have
to have five to seven syllables, and have to rhyme
with each other and have the same rhythm.

Limericks often start with the line "There once was a..." or "There was a..."

"There was an Old Man with a beard

Who said, 'It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!'

There once was a wonderful star

Who thought she would go very far
Until she fell down
And looked like a clown
She knew she would never go far.