Find which paragraph belongs to which Irish joke. Both jokes consist of 4 paragraphs altogether. You can find the beginning of the jokes in the first row of the table. 

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 answers:

Irish Driver Breathalysed: B, F, C
Booze: D, E, A

Try to find the answers to the riddles! 

1) Why do people wear shamrocks on St. Patrick’s Day?
2) Why can’t you iron a four-leaf clover?
3) What type of bow cannot be tied?
4) Why did St. Patrick drive all the snakes out of Ireland?
5) What was missing from the Irish stew?
6) Why can’t you borrow money from a leprechaun?
7) How can you tell if an Irishman is having a good time?
8) How did the leprechaun beat the Irishman to the pot of gold?
9) Where can you always find gold?
10) What’s big and purple and lies next to Ireland?

a) A rainbow!
b) In the dictionary!
c) Real rocks are too heavy!
d) Because they’re always a little short.
e) It could have used a pinch of Gaelic!
f) Grape Britain!
g) Because you shouldn’t press your luck!
h) He couldn’t afford plane fare!
i) He’s Dublin over with laughter!
j) He took a shortcut!

Answers: 1) c, 2) g, 3) a, 4) h, 5) e, 6) d, 7) i, 8) j, 9) b, 10) f

shamrock – fiatal lóhere
sham – hamis, átverés, kamu
rock – kő, szikla
to iron – vasalni
four-leaf clover – négylvelű lóhere
bow – masni, csokornyakkendőto tie – kötni
tie – nyakkendő
to drive something out of – ki/elhajtani/üldözni valamit valahonnan
to drive – vezetni (autót)
to be missing – hiányozni
stew – pörkölt
to borrow – kölcsön kérni, kölcsönözni
leprechaun – jellemzően nagyon kicsi, vörös hajú, zöld ruhás emberke, tünde féle
how can you tell if… – honnan tudod, hogy…
to have a good time – jól érezni magadat
to beat someone to something – előbb odérni valamihez mint a másik
rainbow – szivárvány
short – rövid, alacsony
to be short of something – kevés van valamiből
pinch – csipetnyi
Gaelic – kelta (úgy hangzik mint ‘garlic’- fokhagyma)
to press one’s luck – kísérteni a szerencsédet
to press – préselni, ‘vasalni’
to afford – megengedni (anyagilag)
plane fare – repülőút ára, repülőjegy
Dublin – Írország fővárasa (úgy hangzik, mint ‘doublin’)
to double over – (össze)görnyedni
laughter – nevetés
shortcut – rövidebb út valahova
to cut short – rövidre vágni, hirtelen abbahagyni

That introduces another feature as well, the “th”, “I will be fine with all this oil”. The “th” is usually removed from Irish speakers, especially with more casual speakers so that you get more d’s and t’s instead. So have a listen to this. “What do you think of this, what do you think of this?” That is “think” and “this”. Our next feature is the letter “r”. Now for most Irish speakers the “r” is always pronounced. So, instead of saying words like “park”, we will have “paark”, with a “err”. It is right at the front of the mouth, unless you are from Dublin where your right at the back of your mouth. You are right at the front, “park” and “garden”.

Right at the front like that. Now we move onto a “l” sound. Now, for British English speakers we have two versions for the “l” sound. We have one at the back of the mouth, like in “kettle”, “bottle” and “pull”, and one at the front in “lovely”, “lemon” and “limned”. For an Irish speaker, they are all at the front. In fact, it is quite helpful I like to think of the whole accent coming from the front of the mouth. This phrase might help, “a little bubble at the front of your mouth, a little bubble at the front of your mouth”. Finally, that introduces the “ou” sound in mouth. It becomes “ouw”, like if starting on a “ou”, if you start on “ou”, “ouw”, “mouth”. So try “how now brown cow, brown cow” with an “our” in it. “How now brown cow, a little bubble at the front of your mouth”. Now we have not got time for more features today.

I am Gareth Jameson, thanks very much.