THE IRISH CULTURE BOOK

IRISH CULTURE BOOK 1

Here in the THE IRISH CULTURE BOOK: ONLINE RESOURCES SECTION you will find all the listenings included in Book 1, as well as links to resources for each unit. These can help deepen students’ engagement with each area of Irish culture.

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BOOK UNITS

Unit 1 Questions about Ireland

Unit 2 Irish Food

Unit 3 Irish Physical Characteristics

Unit 4 Traditional Irish Music

Unit 5 Visual Ireland

Unit 6 A Nice Cuppa

Unit 7 English Spoken in Ireland

Unit 8 Irish Weather

Unit 9 Irish Literature

Unit 10 Irish Culture and History

Unit 11 Irish History on Film

Unit 12 Survival – Irish Adventurers

LISTENINGS

All the listenings needed for the THE IRISH CULTURE BOOK can either be listened to here online or easily downloaded. To listen, simply click on the symbol in the left-hand corner of the ‘soundcloud’ link. Otherwise, click on the download symbol in the top right-hand corner of the ‘soundcloud’ link to start your free download.

The first link contains the listenings from all units. Individual listening extracts for each Unit can also be accessed below or from the corresponding Unit pages in this site.

INDEX OF LISTENING EXTRACTS

UNIT 4 TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC

Part 1.1 World Instruments.

Part 2.1 Irish Musical Instruments

Part 4.1 Between the Jigs and the Reels

UNIT 8 IRISH WEATHER

Part 5 Weather Forecast

Quote of the week

“This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.”

– Sigmund Freud about the Irish

THE IRISH CULTURE BOOK

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Ian O’Malley has worked in ESL, in Ireland, Spain, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, since 1996. He is DELTA-qualified and has worked as a teacher, academic director, examiner, teacher trainer, materials designer and editor. He has a masters in English literature and is a previously published author.