Hello ! For my internship, on March 25th, I have to create a unit for Year 9 pupils, "Ireland: a country's heritage". It would be very helpful to have someone reading this text, but not too fast. Thank you for your help!
Hello! Today, we will talk about St. Patrick. Who is he exactly? St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. He was born in the 4th century. Everybody thought that he was Irish, but he was Welsh. When he was very young, he was kidnapped and so people took him to Irleand. He lived a terrible time in Ireland. Indeed, he had to work as a slave. He was very religious: he read the Bible and prayed all the time. St Patrick's Day is today on March 17th, because it refers to the death anniversary of Saint Patrick in 461. The mascot for St. Patrick's Day, is a man wearing a green hat, but also a red beard. He is known as the leprechaun. St Patrick's Day was declared a public holiday in 1903 thanks to the Bank Holiday Act of 1903, an act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Nowadays, we celebrate St Patrick's Day as a way to celebrate heritage and culture which is very present in the United States of America, because a lot of Irish migrated to the United States resulted from the Great Famine of 1845-1852. Also, we can find a lot of parades, and the most important in the world is in New York today. Furthermore, the Shamrock Shake was created in 1967 by Hal Rosen, ownerof a McDonald's in Connecticut, who prepared this delicious mint shake to celebrate St Patrick's Day.
