St. Patrick's Day

Blimey, the luck o' the Irish is upon us!

The 17th March is St. Patrick's Day, so you'd better wear something green or else you'll get pinched! Do you want to know why we celebrate St. Patrick's Day in the United States? Well, see below (unfortunately, I could't get the video itself on the blog).

Watch the history of St. Patrick's Day here

But, wait, there's more! you can find out a lot of information here.

And once you've read about the history, what all can you remember? Try out the quiz.

(photos from http://www.flickr.com/photos/ilja/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/torugatoru/ )

Lucky Jim tasks

Everyone should have finished Lucky Jim by now, so here are a couple of things you can do.

One is to take the twitter challenge. Describe the plot of the story in 144 spaces (NOT letters). You can send them to me and I'll put them on my twitter stream so they can be seen here on the blog, or you can join twitter and give my your name (or become my follower :-) ) This will really get you thinking about what is relevant and what isn't!

Two is to take the Lucky Jim quiz here.
Leave a comment and tell us how you did.

And since all good things come in threes, here's one more.

Three is to write either to a question from another person from class (you can leave them as comments to this post or add a new post), or choose one of the topics from here to respond to.

And since I'm already giving you homework here, choose an English in Use part 1 task and do some practice like in class (since this has been written before the lesson, I'm assuming we'll get that far).

Have fun!