Alumno: Kevin Hernández Negrete UEA: inglés intermedio 1
Matricula:2162015154 Irland Exercises
Checking your understanding
Pages 1-9 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)
1. There are a lot of lakes and rivers in the middle of Ireland.
True 2. People on the Aran islands all speak English. False 3. The Gaelic Word for woman is bean. True 4. The church is not very important in Ireland. False 5. Brendan was a Viking boat False 6. Henry ll was the first King of England and Ireland. True 7. After 1690, most of the important people in Ireland were Protestants. False 8. In the 1840s, a lot of poor Irish people died because they didn´n like potatoes. False 9. Thousands of Irish people went to live in America. True
Pages 10-19 Write answers to these questions
10. What did Sir Edward Carson want? He wanted to keep the Act of Union 11. What did Patrick Pears want? He wanted Ireland to be free from Britain 12. What was the name of the Sinn Féin army? The Irish Republican Army, or IRA 13. ¿Do most of the people in Northern Ireland want to be British? About sixty per cent of the people of Northern Ireland were protestant, and about forty per cent were Catholic. Most of the Protestants want to be British, most of the Catholics want to be Irish. 14. What do the IRA and Sinn Féin want? They want the British to leave Ireland 15. How many people in Northern Ireland vote for Sinn Féin? Only fifteen per cent of the people in Northern Ireland vote for Sinn Féin 16. Where can you find the Book of Kells? In Trinity College 17. Which is the largest park in Europe? Phoenix Park 18. What are the names of some of Ireland’s most famous writers? Jonathan Swift, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett Alumno: Kevin Hernández Negrete UEA: inglés intermedio 1 Matricula:2162015154 19. How many Irish people are under twenty five years old? It is a country of Young people: nearly fifty per cent of its people are under twenty five