Are you looking for a fun lesson plan for St Patrick’s Day to celebrate this holiday in your lessons? I’ve got just the activities for Saint Patrick’s Day you need to make fun and engaging to learn about! Saint Patrick’s Day is all about green and luck and leprechauns and these five activities will help your students get in the spirit while they learn about language too!
I love talking about any holiday that English-speaking countries celebrate in my English lessons. It’s not only fun to talk about celebrations, because kids love those, but it also helps students understand the culture of these countries and the traditions they have. In the process, they even learn something about their own culture, and that’s why it’s so valuable to discuss celebrations with students. Check out my ideas for Saint Patrick Day activities!
The best lesson plan for St Patrick’s Day in 5 activities
The activities I plan on doing with my students include writing about the holiday, a word search and a crossword, then words games for vocabulary practice, some reading comprehension as well as practice of listening skills to finish off with.
St Patrick’s Day writing activity
Getting students to write is always a fun activity and Saint Patrick’s Day has the perfect topics! Ask them:
- Finish the sentence. “I think I’m lucky, because…”
- You found a pot of gold, what would you do?
- If you found a four-leaf clover, what would you do?
- If you caught a leprechaun and had 3 wishes, what would they be?
Get them to share their responses. Some of them are bound to be hilarious.
Saint Patrick’s Day word search and crossword
One of my activities for Saint Patrick’s Day is the word search. I love getting students to find the vocabulary that has to do with this day. Crossword puzzles are much the same, but why not do both of them? Students enjoy puzzles immensely and love when they get to solve them. Saint Patrick’s Day is no exception.
Vocabulary word Games
Dominoes and memory are two other activities for Saint Patrick’s Day that I love. Students have to find the correct match between the pictures and words. For the dominoes game, it means moving tiles so that they become one long chain of matches, and for memory it means finding matches by turning two tiles at a time over. These games are active and require full body learning.
Saint Patrick’s Day lessons for listening skills
Another activity is getting students to watch videos about Saint Patrick’s Day’s history. This video from History may be a little harder, but this one by Little Fox is easier. Get them to tell you what they learned from the videos, get them to come up with questions for their classmates and then watch again to answer them, or come up with your own questions they can answer while they watch.
Saint Patrick’s Day reading comprehension
One of the best activities to develop any language is of course reading. Much like the listening activities listed above, it’s great to get students to read over Saint Patrick’s Day. This article by History is great, as well as this one by National Geographic Kids.
And these are my ideas for a lesson plan for Saint Patrick’s Day! I hope you feel inspired to try some yourself! Let me know if you have any questions.
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