Saint Patrick's Day - C1

Match the words with their definitions

• to speak excessively about your skills

• custom

• a holy person who protects a place

• boast about

• a traditional or habitual practice.

• take off

• when something becomes popular

• kidnap

• to illegally take someone prisoner

• patron saint

Match

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

h

i

Irish flag

top hat

St. Patrick's Day

four-leaf clover

harp

pot of gold

shoe

glasses

shamrock

Complete:

1. Millions of people around the world wear their best green ​ (a)   every March 17th to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day.

2. To start with, Saint Patrick wasn't even ​ (b)   . He was born around the fifth century in Brittany, then part of the Roman Empire.

3. At sixteen, he was ​ (c)   by Irish Raiders and spent six years in ​ (d)   .

4. After Patrick died on March 17, 461 he was largely forgotten until mythology and egend grew. Centuries later he was ​ (e)   as the patron saint of Ireland.

• attire
• Irish
• kidnapped
• captivity
• honored

Complete

1. According to another famous story, Patrick used the three leaves of the ​ (a)   to explain the Holy Trinity.

2.The parade tradition really ​ (b)   after the great potato famine hit Ireland in the 1840s, sending hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants pouring into New York, Boston, and other American cities.

3.Today, New Yorkers can​ (c)   having the largest St. Patrick's parade in the world with 200,000 participants and nearly 3 million spectators each year.

4.The first record of a St. Patrick's Day parade in New York dates to 1762, when a group of Irish soldiers serving with the British marched a few blocks to a ​ (d)   in lower Manhattan.

5.As a result, people in 18th century Ireland started wearing shamrocks on March 17 to signify their Irish Christian ​ (e)  

• shamrock
• took off
• boast about
• tavern
• pride

Match the synonyms

• relocate

• spectators

• clothes

• captivity

• imprisonment

• tavern

• pub

• attire

• audience

• migrate