Lesson Ireland

• Engels
• HBO
• Studiejaar 2,3

The Republic of Ireland

Berber van den Berg

Jelske van der Hoek

Karen Santana 

Today's programme:

• Lesson goals
• Key concept climate & geography
• Key concept sports
• Key concept language & famous people
• Key concept politics
• Practice test LKT (KBT)

First: join our LessonUp!

1. Take your phone / laptop
2. Go to www.lessonup.app
3. Fill in the code you get from us
4. Enter your name
5. Have fun! 

Before we begin... What do you already know about the Republic of Ireland? Take about 5 minutes to fill in. Use mainly keywords.

Lesson goals

At the end of this lesson, you...

• ....
• ....
• 
  
• can recognize  three national sports in Ireland
• can explain the basic rules of Irish sports

Text

squash

American football

lacrosse

hockey

baseball

soccer

Rugby

Angela’s Ashes, chapter V, page 159

“He waits for me at the bottom of Barrack Hill. He wants to know why I’m dancing, that everyone knows dancing is a sissy thing and I’ll wind up like Cyril Benson wearing a kilt and medals and dancing all over with girls. He says next thing I’ll be sitting in the kitchen knitting socks. He says dancing will destroy me and I won’t be fit to play any kind of football, soccer, rugby or Gaelic football itself because the dancing teaches you to run like a sissy and everyone will laugh”

 

Angela’s Ashes, chapter I, page 13

“Dad, will you tell me the story about Coo Coo?

Cuchulain. Say it after me, Coo-hoo-lin. I’ll tell you the story when you say the name right. Coo-hoo-lin…”

Cúchulainn 

Break out

• Form a group of 3 or 4.
• Read the descriptions of each sport
• Try to guess which descriptions belongs to which sport
• You get 5 minutes to do it.

Camogie

Horse racing

Gaelic football

Hurling

Listening time!

Listen to these recordings about hurling, Gaellic football, Irish and horse racing.

We are going throught this together.

Check if your predictions were correct.

• Gaelic football : peil
  
• Hurling : men - iománaíocht
                   women -camógaíocht
• Horse racing

Angela’s Ashes, Chapter II, page 82

“On Thursday Mam follows Dad to the Labour Exchange. She marches in behind him and when the man pushes the money toward Dad she takes it. The other men on the dole nudge each other and grin and Dad is disgraced because a woman is never supposed to interfere with a man’s dole money. He might want to put sixpence on a horse or have a pint and if all the women start acting like Mam the horses will stop running and Guinness will go broke”

Thoroughbred horse

Lesson goals

Now, 

• can you recognize a three national sports in Ireland?
• can you explain the basic rules of these Irish sports?