LESSON 2

OBJECTIVE:

Students will be able to make an infographic about a celebration.

1. Answer some questions about Ireland:

- What is a Shamrock for Irish people?

- What is the capital of Ireland?

- Where is it located?

- What is an infographic?
2. Look at the St. Patrick’s Day infographic on page 23, match words with the sentences that
describe them using information form the infographic
3. Listen and complete sentences with information from the listening in track 7.
4. You are going to organize a St. Patrick’s Day Party. Write a dialogue about it. Here you
have some ideas for the party:

- When will it be?

- we celebrate it on Wednesday March
seventeen
-
- What time will it be?
- The St. Patrick's Day parade in
London begins on March sixteen
- Where will it be?
- This is a free day in the Plaza de
Armas de Santiago, where you can
soak up the Irish culture
- Will there be music? If so, what kind?

- What kind of food will you serve?

- What kind of games will you play?

- Who will you invite?

- Use present continuous to talk about your party plans.

5. Choose a holiday from those pictured and research the origin of the holiday and how
people celebrate it. Make an infographic with your findings. Organize the information you
gathered about the celebration in an infographic. Think about what a party for your
holiday would be like and create an invitation for one.
Try this online tools for creating infographics:
http://www.infogr.am
google docs
Slides
6. Look and label review celebrations vocabulary by labeling photos on page 24
7. Read and match celebrations collocations. Match illustrations of celebration activities with
the colocations for the activities.
8. Put words in the correct order to form sentences in present continuous on page 25
activities 3, 4 and 5.

ANSWERS:

1)
 A clover is a symbol and emblem of Ireland, which is
good luck, it is a superstition that almost everyone
knows.
 The capital of Ireland is Dublin.
 Ireland is located on the east coast on the Ireland Sea.
 It is a visual, informative representation or written text
diagram that summarizes and explains in detail.

2)
St. Patrick's Day or simply St. Patrick is a holiday of
Christian origin that is celebrated annually on March 17
to commemorate the death of St. Patrick of Ireland,
patron saint of the entire island of Ireland located in
north-western continental Europe.

3)
 Shaun´s surname is Murphy.
 He lives in Sidney.
 His family is original from Australia.
 There´s big Parade and fireworks in Sidney on St.
Patrick Day.
 This year his family is having a Party with Irish,
music and dancing.

4)
5)

Memorial Day is a federal commemoration date that

takes place in the United States of America on the last
Monday of May of each year, with the objective of
remembering the American soldiers who died in
combat. It was initially established to commemorate
the fallen soldiers of the American Union who
participated in the American Civil War.

It begins as a ritual of commemoration and

reconciliation after the civil war, although later, at the
beginning of the 20th century, it begins to be seen as
an occasion to pay tribute to the dead in general. So
much so that citizens visit the graves of their deceased
relatives.
 They make commemorative parades to this day, pay
tributes and prayers

6)

1) Blow out cap and gown

2) Get a parade
3) Set off candles
4) Make flags
5) Wear a diploma
6) Watch Presents
7) Wave fireworks
8) Open resolutions

8) Activity:
1. You/ what/doing/after/school/are/?
R/What are you doing after school?
 2. Is/Jancie/party/not/going/the/to
R/Jancie is not going to the party

3. We/giving/sweater/for/Tim/birthday/a/his/are
R/We are giving a sweater Tim for his birthday

4. To/you/the/going/football/are/tonight/game/?
R/Are you going to the football game tonight?

5. Parents/are/my/having/not/for/thanksgiving/turkey
R/My parents are not having turkey for thanksgiving

Activity 4

Hi Jessica.

Are you having a nice summer? I´m in Rome with my Italian cousins. It’s a lot of funny! Tomorrow,

we are going to the colosseum and the we are having lunch in piazza navona. Pizza, pizza and

more pizza! Later, my mom is going shopping with my aunt, but I’m taking a tour of the Vatican.

Yes I love sightseeing!

We aren´t visiting any other museums because we don´t have time, but we are taking a bus to see

an ancient Roman villa on Friday. And we are traveling back home next week. I´ll text you!

Ciao from Rome

Giovanni

1. We´re going to a Rock concert tonight ?

R/ Are we going to the Rock concert tonight?

2. My friend Amy´s going to the parade -

R/ my friend Amy is not going to the parade

3. We are not setting off fireworks tonight +

R/ we are setting off fireworks tonight

4. Is Paul having a graduation party? +

R/Paul is having a graduation party

5. You´re going to the party. ?

R/ Are you going to the party?