An Irish Lullaby Lesson

Patrick was born in Roman Britain. When he was about sixteen he was captured by Irish raiders and taken as a slave to Ireland, where he lived for six years before escaping and returning to his family. He entered the church, as his father and grandfather had before him, becoming a deacon and a bishop. He later returned to Ireland as a Christian missionary, working in the north and west of the island, but little is known about the places where he actually worked.

Saint Patrick's Day is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa 385–461 AD), one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on March 17. The day is the national holiday of Ireland.

1. AN IRISH LULLABY
Over in Killarney
Many years ago,
Me mither sang a song to me [My mother]
In tones so sweet and low.
Just a simple little ditty,
In her good ould Irish way, [old]
And l'd give the world if she could sing
That song to me this day.

Chorus: "Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral,
Too-ra-loo-ra-li,
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral,
hush now, don't you cry!
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral,
Too-ra-loo-ra-li,
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral,
that's an Irish lullaby."


2
Oft in dreams I wander
To that cot again,
I feel her arms a-huggin' me
As when she held me then.
And I hear her voice a -hummin'
To me as in days of yore,
When she used to rock me fast asleep
Outside the cabin door. Chorus
You can hear the music if you put this in the address bar on your computer:

http://www.ireland-information.com/irishmusic/anirishlullaby.shtml

1. What’s a LULLABY? ______________________________________________
2. Where is Killarney? (Write a complete sentence.)


3. What idiom in the song means “I would pay everything that I have. . .”

a._____________________________________________________________

4. What idiom means A LONG TIME AGO?

a. _________________________________________________________

5. What’s a COT?
a.______________________________________

6. OFT is short for what word? __________________________

7. Look at the song and write all the past tenses
a. ________________________________________
b. ________________________________________
c. ________________________________________

The past tense can be used with AGO. Can you write a sentence in the past tense with AGO?

d. ______________________________________________________________

8. What present tense verbs are in the song?
a. ________________________________________
b. ________________________________________
c. ________________________________________

9. Please find the conditional verbs (would/could + base form)
a. ________________________________________
b. ________________________________________

10. USED TO + infinitive means something that you don’t do any more

examples: She used to smoke, but she doesn’t do it any more.
I used to listen to records, but now I listen to CDs.
SHE USED TO ROCK ME FAST ASLEEP. means
She put me to sleep by rocking me in a rocking chair when I was a baby.

Can you write a sentence using USED TO?

a. _________________________________________________________


example: She didn’t use to do homework, but now she does.

Can you write a sentence using the negative: DIDN’T USE TO _______


a. ______________________________________________________________