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Lesson 3 of Progress in Irish. More vocabulary: nouns and adjectives

Resources at end of lesson…

Freagair (Answer)

1. Cad tá dúnta? What is shut? – Tá an doras dúnta. The door is shut.

2. Cad tá oscailte? What is open? – Tá an fhuinneog oscailte. The window is open.

3. Cad tá briste? What is broken? – Tá an peann briste. The pen is broken.

4. Cad tá stróicthe? What is torn? – Tá an leabhar stróicthe. The book is torn.

5. Cad tá caillte? What is lost? – Tá an t-airgead caillte. The money is lost.

6. Cad tá caite. What is worn out? – Tá an bhróg caite. The shoe is worn out.

7. Cad tá déanta? What is done? – Tá an obair déanta. The work is done.

8. Cad tá críochnaithe? What is finished? – Tá an ceacht críochnaithe. The lesson is finished.

9. Cad tá scríofa? What is written? – Tá an litir scríofa? The letter is written.

10. Cé tá imithe? Who is gone away? – Tá an fear imithe. The man is gone away.

Cuir Gaeilge ar seo (Translate into Irish)

1. The door is open. – Tá an doras oscailte.

2. The window is shut. – Tá an fhuinneog dúnta.

3. The pencil is broken. – Tá an peann luaidhe briste.

4. The book is lost. – Tá an leabhar caillte.

5. The coat is worn out. – Tá an cóta caite.

6. The work is finished. – Tá an obair críochnaithe.

7. The lesson is written. – Tá an ceacht scríofa.

8. The child is gone away. – Tá an páiste imithe.

9. The pen is lost. – Tá an peann caillte.

10. The book is torn. – Tá an leabhar stróicthe.

11. The box is closed. – Tá an bosca dúnta.

12. The shoe is worn out. – Tá an bhróg caite.

13. The window is broken. – Tá an fhuinneog briste.

14. The letter is finished. – Tá an litir críochnaithe.

15. The woman is gone away. – Tá an bhean imithe.

16. The road is long. – Tá an bóthar fada.

17. Brian is laughing. – Tá Brian ag gáire.

18. Sean is coming in. – Tá Seán ag teacht isteacht.

Resources:

PII Answer sheets, html format.
PII Answer sheets, downloadable PDF format.
Irish Dictionary Online.

Bookshops:

Cúpla Focal, Litríocht, Cló Iar-Chonnachta.

Progress in Irish (Máiréad Ní Ghráda ) is published by The Educational Company (ISBN 0-86167-159-7).

Help me understand exactly how this works … yesterday the body of a newborn baby was found in a skip in Limerick. Gardaí naturally are appealing for the mother to come forward. What troubles me is the line in this report “no evidence of foul play”. Surely being left to die (i’m making the huge assumption that the baby was not still-born) is foul play? I know i’m being an insensitive bastard, because god only knows what the poor (probably teenage) mother went through, but I find it disgusting that someone could leave a defenceless baby in a friggin skip with rats and heck knows what else in there!
Putting on my sensitive cap again, yes I do feel for the mother, and this is just another of many many such incidents in Ireland over the years and I believe it’s something Irish society should be totally ashamed of, that this sort of thing can still happen in 2005. What does it say about us that young pregnant mothers are too frightened to come forward to find help? And if they do what kind of bastard parent would refuse help (no doubt happened at some stage)?
Also in the linked report “infant girl … abandoned at Tara Street DART station”. What the fuck is wrong with some people?

Came across this via Robin Blandford’s blog bytesurgery.com/gearedup.
There’s a campaign moving through Europe to encourage people to store an emergency contact number, such as that of a close friend or family member, under the heading ICE (In Case of Emergency). Seemingly this was started as a nationwide campaign in the UK (it’s the first I heard of it anyway) and it allows paramedics or police to be able to contact a designated friend/relative should the worst come to worst.
According to Robin the idea is “the brainchild of East Anglian Ambulance Service Paramedic Bob Brotchie … a paramedic for 13 years” who often had to search through the mobile phones of shocked or injured people looking for a relative to contact.
Sounds like a good idea to me and sounds like something worth spreading about!! Though if you are like me, with a friend called “Ice”, it might be no harm to put the full name into your phone “ICE – In Case of Emergency”
Good post Robin.

What a vile vile act. In Germany Police are holding a 39 year old woman in custody after the bodies of 9 new-born babies were discovered on her property. So far she has admitted that they are hers but has not admitted to killing them. Even if we give her the benefit of the doubt and assume, for now, that somehow the babies died of natural causes, how can any reasonably sane person bury their children in flower pots and buckets in their back garden? It’s just sickening. She must have been seriously disturbed. Also worrying is that no-one, family members, neighbours or doctors ever noticed anything strange. I mean, how do you hide nine pregnancies?

Lesson 2 of Progress in Irish. Another simple one…

Resources at end of lesson…

Freagair (Answer)

1. Cad tá lán? What is full? – Tá an mála lán. The bag is full.

2. Cad tá folamh? What is empty? – Tá an bosca folamh. The box is empty.

3. Cad tá cam? What is crooked? – Tá an bóthar cam. The road is crooked.

4. Cad tá díreach? What is straight? – Tá an tsráid díreach. The street is straight.

5. Cad tá milis? What is sweet? – Tá an t-úll milis. The apple is sweet.

6. Cad tá géar? What is sour? – Tá an bainne géar. The milk is sour.

7. Cad tá salach? What is dirty? – Tá an bhróg salach. The shoe is dirty.

8. Cad tá glan? What is clean? – Tá an t-urlár glan. The floor is clean.

9. Cad tá fada? What is long? – Tá an bóthar fada. The road is long.

10. Cé tá tuirseach? Who is tired? – Tá Brian tuirseach. Brian is tired.

11. Cé tá tinn? Who is ill? – Tá Nóra tinn. Nora is ill.

12. Cé tá anseo? Who is here? Tá an fear anseo. The man is here.

Cuir Gaeilge ar seo (Translate into Irish)

1. The man is tired. Tá an fear tuirseach.

2. The woman is ill. Tá an bhean tinn.

3. The road is dirty. Tá an bóthar salach.

4. The street is clean. Tá an tsráid glan.

5. The shoe is here. Tá an bhróg anseo.

6. The milk is sour. Tá an bainne géar.

7. The bag is empty. Tá an mála folamh.

8. The road is long. Tá an bóthar fada.

9. The floor is clean. Tá an t-urlár glan.

10. Who is there? Cé tá ansin?

11. The boy is coming. Tá an buachaill ag teacht.

12. The child is ill. Tá an páiste tinn.

13. The girl is crying. Tá an cailín an gol.

14. Nora is talking. Tá Nóra ag caint.

15. Brian is laughing. Tá Brian ag gáire.

16. The man is going home. Tá an fear ag dul abhaile.

Resources:

PII Answer sheets, html format.
PII Answer sheets, downloadable PDF format.
Irish Dictionary Online.

Bookshops:

Cúpla Focal, Litríocht, Cló Iar-Chonnachta.

Progress in Irish (Máiréad Ní Ghráda ) is published by The Educational Company (ISBN 0-86167-159-7).

I ran into my favourite Finnish celeb the other day. We were just going to the supermarket and who should I see coming out but the gorgeous Janna Pelkonen, ex-host of a computer game show “Tilt”. And shortly afterwards we saw her again in the chippers. She’s actually from this city but i’d never seen her before. And also from this city are Krisse, a comedian who has her own comedy talk show and Jari Litmanen the footballer.

Here’s another picture of Janna:

More spacey news. A huge patch of ice has been found in an unnamed crater on Mars. “The photographs were taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on board Mars Express, the European Space Agency probe which is exploring the planet.” “The existence of the water-ice patch on Mars raises the prospect that past or present life will one day be detected.”
And since reading this I can’t get the Bowie song “Life on Mars” out of my head, not that I mind, Bowie’s deadly.

Life On Mars
David Bowie

It’s a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling “No”
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she’s hooked to the silver screen
But the film is a saddening bore
For she’s lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on

Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It’s the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he’ll ever know
He’s in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?

It’s on Amerikas tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
‘Cause Lennon’s on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
But the film is a saddening bore
‘Cause I wrote it ten times or more
It’s about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on

Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It’s the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he’ll ever know
He’s in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?

Didn’t get a chance to post on this before now though it’s been in the news a few days. Astronomers have reported the discovery of a 10th planet in our solar system. It was first actually seen in 2003 but only now confirmed as a planet. “2003 UB313″ is a planet of rock and ice, somewhat larger than Pluto and about 3 times as far away. I wonder what name they will give it? I wonder when Celestia [very cool program, recommended download] will add it to their program.

The UB313 discovery team “have also obtained spectra of the smaller mini-planet 2003 EL61, which was reported on July 28, 2005 by two independent teams: one from the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Spain and the Brown, Trujillo and Rabinowitz team. This object is smaller than Pluto, but shows strong water-ice features, similar to what is seen on the surface of Pluto’s moon Charon.”

UB313:

Update: Will we lose Pluto? *sniff*

The Israeli military will in future use sand bullets for riot control, replacing rubber bullets which have been responsible for dozens of deaths. Perhaps the PSNI might consider a similar move. Although rubber bullets are not used much anymore in NI [they were used quite recently but that was the first time in about 3 years] they have also been responsible for many deaths in NI including a number of children.

This is the very first lesson of Progress in Irish. It would be handy if you had the text as I don’t think I will be posting the sections ‘Learn’ or ‘Read’. Progress in Irish (Máiréad Ní Ghráda ) is published by The Educational Company (ISBN 0-86167-159-7) and available from any of the Irish online book stores.

Resources at end of lesson…

Lesson 1: Tá, verb placement.

Freagair (Answer)

1. Cé tá ag siúl? Who is walking? – Tá Brian ag siúl. Brian is walking.

2. Cé tá ag rith? Who is running? – Tá Seán ag rith. Seaán is running.

3. Cé tá ag ithe? Who is eating? – Tá Nóra ag ithe. Nóra is eating.

4. Cé tá ag ól? Who is drinking? – Tá Máire ag ól. Máire is drinking.

5. Cé tá ag gáire? Who is laughing? – Tá an fear ag gáire. The man is laughing.

6. Cé tá ag gol? Who is crying? – Tá an páiste ag gol. The child is crying.

7. Cá tá ag dul amach? Who is going out? – Tá an bhean ag dul amach. The woman is going out.

8. Cé tá ag teacht isteach? Who is coming in? – Tá an cailín ag teacht isteach. The girl is coming in.

9. Cé tá ag dul abhaile? Who is coming home? – Tá an buachaill ag dul abhaile. The boy is coming home.

10. Cé tá ag caint? Who is talking? – Tá an múinteoir ag caint. The teacher is talking.

Cuir Gaeilge ar seo (Translate into Irish)

1. Nora is running. Tá Nóra ag rith.

2. Brian is talking. Tá Brian ag caint.

3. Sean is coming. Tá Seán ag teacht.

4. The girl is crying. Tá an caillin ag gol.

5. The teacher is laughing. Tá an múinteoir ag gáire.

6. The man is coming. Tá an fear ag teacht.

7. The woman is going home. Tá an bhean ag dul abhaile.

8. The child is eating. Tá an páiste ag ithe.

9. The boy is drinking. Tá an buachaill ag ól.

10. Nora is coming in. Tá Nóra ag teacht isteach.

11. Eamann is going out. Tá Eamann ag dul amach.

12. Niall is coming home. Tá Niall ag teacht abhaile.

Resources:

PII Answer sheets, html format.
PII Answer sheets, downloadable PDF format.
Irish Dictionary Online.

Bookshops:

Cúpla Focal, Litríocht, Cló Iar-Chonnachta.

That complete lesson 1. Very simple, yah?
Any feedback? Is the format ok or?