Saint Patrick's Day

Match the numbers and dates to the facts in the opposite column.

                                                                                        

1. 17^th March                                    a. number of spectators in a parade
2. 5^th century                                    b. Kidnapped by Irish raiders
3. aged 16                                        c. shamrock have these
4. years  
5. March 17^th 461                             d, the Irish potato famine
6. 3 leaves                                        e, first Irish parade in New York
7. 18^th century Ireland                       f. St Patrick's Day
8. 1840's                                          g. St Patrick died
9. 1762                                            h. participants in the parade
10. 2 hundred thousand                       i. in captivity
11. 3 million                                       j. St Patrick was born

                                                             k. people started wearing shamrock

Now watch the video again answer the following questions.

1.   What nationality was St Patrick?

2.   What work did he dedicate his life to?

3.   What did Patrick do according to one myth?

4.   What did this symbolise?

5.   What did Patrick use the leaves of the shamrock for?

6.   What was the result of this?

7.   Where did the tradition of parades start?

8.   What did the Irish people do during the potato famine?

Key

1.f 2.j 3.b 4.i 5.g 6.c 7.k 8.d 9.e 10.h 11.a

1.   British

2.   being a Christian missionary

3.   drove out the snakes from Ireland

4.   the cleansing of Ireland from Paganism

5.   to explain the Holy Trinity

6.   people started wearing shamrock and then green clothes.

7.   In New York

8.   They emigrated to the USA