USEFUL ONLINE RESOURCES FOR UNIT 7

WARM UP

https://www.spreeder.com/important-american-and-british-spelling-differences-you-should-know-2/

https://www.boredpanda.com/british-american-english-differences-language/


PART 1 ENGLISH AND THE WORLD

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words/loanwords.html

http://www.fluentu.com/blog/english/english-words-from-other-languages/

www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/english-loan-words-european-languages

http://www.krysstal.com/borrow.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loanword


PART 2 IRISH AND THE WORLD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Irish_origin

https://theculturetrip.com/europe/ireland/articles/13-words-the-irish-gave-the-english-language/


PART 3 IRISH EXPRESSIONS

http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/travel/35-irish-sayings-and-phrases-you-need-to-learn-before-you-visit-221197271-237785021.html

www.theirishroadtrip.com/irish-slang-words/

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej_51H1zWGY


PART 4 MISTRANSLATING WORDS

1.

www.blog.pangeanic.com/worst-translation-mistake

www.universal-translation-services.com/mokusatsu-mistranslation-the-story-behind-it/

2.

Red Square

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Square

Mars

www.fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-mistranslated-word-led-to-some-of-the-best-fake-news-of-the-20th-century/

3.

http://www.boredpanda.com/untranslatable-words-found-in-translation-anjana-iyer/ 

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/23-charming-illustrations-of-untranslatable-words-from-other#.ormWmR2Q0

https://www.rocketlanguages.com/blog/20-of-the-worlds-most-beautiful-untranslatable-words/


PART 5 THE CRAIC 

www.irishcentral.com/culture/craic/irish-craic-explained


PART 6 MORE UNTRANSLATABLE WORDS

https://listverse.com/2011/07/13/10-hard-to-translate-english-words/


PART 7 THINKING ABOUT LANGUAGE

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/06/complex-languages/489389/


PART 9 AN IRISH CONVERSATION

www.atlanticlanguage.com/what-is-hiberno-english/

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-English

http://grammar.about.com/od/fh/g/fillerterm.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filler_%28linguistics%29


ON YOUR OWN

http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/liff.html


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 8 Irish Weather

Unit 9 Irish Literature

Unit 10 Irish Culture and History

Unit 11 Irish History on Film

Unit 12 Survival – Irish Adventurers

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Quote of the week

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

– Sigmund Freud about the Irish