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Saint Patrick's Day

Saint Patrick’s Day, celebrated on March 17th, is a national holiday in Ireland and is recognized worldwide, particularly in Australia and North America. The day features Irish music, traditional food, parades, and the prominent color green, with notable celebrations in cities like Dublin, Boston, Chicago, and New York. The Dublin parade is part of a five-day festival, attracting over 500,000 attendees, while the first American parade took place in Boston in 1737.

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Saint Patrick's Day

Saint Patrick’s Day, celebrated on March 17th, is a national holiday in Ireland and is recognized worldwide, particularly in Australia and North America. The day features Irish music, traditional food, parades, and the prominent color green, with notable celebrations in cities like Dublin, Boston, Chicago, and New York. The Dublin parade is part of a five-day festival, attracting over 500,000 attendees, while the first American parade took place in Boston in 1737.

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Saint Patrick’s Day

Saint Patrick’s Day is the national holiday of Ireland. Irish people celebrate it
on 17th March. People from all over the world celebrate this special day, too.
It is especially popular in Australia and in North America.

It is a celebration of Irish culture and people


listen to Irish music, eat traditional Irish food and
take part in parades. On this day, everywhere you
look you can see the colour green. People wear
green clothes, paint their faces green and they
even eat green food. In Chicago, the USA, the city
uses special colours to make the river green.
That’s right, the whole river is green!

In Dublin, Ireland, the Saint Patrick’s Day parade is part of a five-day festival
and over 500,000 people attend the parade. In the USA, Saint Patrick’s Day is
also very special. The first Saint Patrick’s Day parade was in Boston in 1737.
In Chicago, the parade lasts all day and in New York, a parade of 150,000
people marches up the 5th Avenue.

Read the text. Decide if the statements are true or false. Write T-for true
and F-for false.

1. Only people in Ireland celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day.


2. People wear green clothes on Saint Patrick’s Day.
3. Chicago’s river is always green.
4. The people of Dublin celebrate for five days.
5. The first American Saint Patrick’s Day parade was in New York.

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