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Week 1: [course booklet up to page 13]
- the Irish alphabet, the fada, slender and broad consonants
- learn a basic vocabulary of about 30 nouns
- conversation: What's the Irish for ...? : See Lesson 5 and Interactive resource fror Week 1
- learn the first verse of a poem pg. 13

Target Sheet 1: First 30 Nouns
This printed target sheet gives the names of 30 nouns that are introduced as examples in the first three lessons of the book. Learners should complete the sheet as they meet each noun. It is a record of their initial Irish vocabulary. The nouns are repeated in the interactive resource. They are also used in a new context in the Circuit Game in week 2. Click the image on the left to open the Target Sheet in ®Adobe Acrobat Reader. Please print the page if possible.

Interactive Multimedia resource: "Cad é?"
This resource is a Question & Answer drill presentation and it should be used at the end of Lesson 2 (week 1): The Questions: 'Cad é?', 'Cad í?' agus 'Cad iad?' elicit answers - 'Is bainne é', 'Is fear é', 'Is bean í', 'Is prátaí iad' etc. (See: For full screen version see 'Interactives' menu)

to do: If you don't have ®Adobe Flash Player on your computer, you need to download and install it to play this presentation. Flash Player is available free of charge. Once it is installed, click the image to Open and Play the presentation. Turn up your sound system and use the forward and back arrows for interactivity.