Let's Talk About St. Patrick's Day (A1/A2)-Beginner to Intermediate ESL Listening & Speaking Audio Conversation Lesson

Let's talk about St. Patrick's Day, which is coming up this month on March 17. This holiday isn't common where I am, so students were quite curious about its origins and traditions.

This lesson is called Let's Talk About St. Patrick's Day and is part of my Seasonal Conversations in English lesson bundle, which takes students through a conversation between two people talking about various holidays. 

The lesson starts with a brief one-page introduction to the holiday:

We then move into a short conversation between two people who discuss the origins of St. Patrick's Day, St. Patrick's Day traditions, and Irish foods eaten on St. Patrick's Day. The conversation slides all have embedded audio files which can be played by clicking on the blue icon in the top left corner:

There is also a slide with an audio file for the entire conversation:

For beginner-level students, I tend to play the conversation line by line first so they can read along with the attached transcript before listening to the whole conversation, but for more advanced students, I usually play the entire conversation first (without letting them look at the transcript) and then play individual audio files as needed for sentences with more difficult phrases or pronunciations.

The lesson slideset also includes definitions for important phrases as well as additional speaking practice questions:

The lesson slides don't usually take more than 10 minutes to go through, which leaves a lot of time for students to practice their speaking on the Additional Practice questions. For my classes with 6-8 students, I like to break students off into pairs to discuss the questions first before bringing everyone back to go through the questions again together. For classes with 3-4 people, I usually go around the class with each question so everyone gets the opportunity to answer the questions before we break off into free discussions for the last 10 minutes of the lesson.

This lesson contains:

• A 5-page Teacher's Guide (PDF)
• A 30-page lesson slideset (PowerPoint) which includes 12 conversation slides, 7 definition slides, and 3 additional practice slides
• A 2-page printable Student Notes file (PDF) which includes the conversation transcript and one page for taking notes

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