Eating out

Look and learn some fast foods vocabulary and different fast foods.

Now do the listening exercices on Heavenly Pies Restaurant

Visit the following websites and find the English sentences that match the ones in your worksheet.

• ManyThings - Travel survival sentences. Restaurant
• Talk English. Fast food

Look at the McDonald's menu and order a menu using one of the conversations at ESL Fast - Ordering fast food as a model.

Bon appetit! Enjoy your meal!

Air travel

1. What's the meaning of...

aisle - arrivals - baggage - baggage reclaim - boarding - boarding card - boarding gate - check in - conveyor belt - customs - delayed - departure - duty free - emergency exit - EU citizens - flight assistant - land - life vest - luggage - nothing to declare - on time - overhead locker - passport control - seat belt - security check - standstill - stow - take off - trolley - upright position

2. Classify the vocabulary above with the following places:

AT THE DEPARTURE AIRPORT - IN THE PLANE - AT THE ARRIVAL AIRPORT

3. In what order do they happen when we travel by plane?

4. Now try the following online exercises on air travel

• Matching
• Multiple choice
• Gap fill

Independence and after

• A Timeline of Irish history
• Irish history

U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday

John Lennon's Sunday bloody Sunday

The Great Potato Famine

The Great Famine and the coffin ships:

The Potato Famine explained with Thousands are sailing, by The Pogues.

Thousands are sailing - lyrics

St Patrick's Day

On March 17th the Irish celebrate St Patrick's Day. Learn a bit more about it with this video:

Ludotori Folk

Ludotori Folk - A trip to Ireland

1. Irish Celtic folk instruments

2. Irish dancing

3. A timeline of Irish history

4. Cockles and mussels (Molly Malone)

5. Dirty Old Town

Sightseeing in Dublin

a) Watch the video and fill in the chart in your worksheet:

Home of British rulers

Residence of Irish President

Dublin’s version of the Champs Elysees

A complimentary pint at the Gravity Bar

Meet the locals

Host official state visits

The General Post Office

A notorious prison

The Molly Malone statue

The heritage centre (Vikings and medieval town)

Book of Kells

At the heart of Temple Bar

The zoo

A museum since the 1980s

Ireland’s largest church and national cathedral

Dublin’s main shopping street

Connects Dublin and the River Shannon in the west

The making of the drink and its history

18th century facilities

The Spire, Europe’s tallest sculpture

Enjoy this scenic part of the city

 

b) Now find information and fill in a similar chart for 5 of the following places:

St Stephen’s Green, Leprechaun Museum, St Patrick’s Cathedral, Jameson Distillery, 
Jeanie Johnston, EPIC the Irish Emigration Museum, Little Museum of Dublin, 
National Museum, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin Writers Museum, 
Croke Park Stadium, General Post Office, Merrion Square