“St. Valentine’s Day”
(The 5th form)
Objectives:
reciting poems, etc.);
Equipment: love saying and proverbs, a CD-recorder, a CD with a song and lovely music, cards with different tasks, the symbols of St. Valentine’s Day, a dry branch of the tree.
Procedure
Music «Hello, Dolly».
Girls:
“Hello, fellows,
How are you, fellows?
Now we have to say to you:
We love you much!
But we are not crazy,
We are just lazy,
We are very friendly,
As you have chance to see.’’
Boys:
“Hello, ladies!
How are you, ladies?
Now we have to say to you:
You are the best!
You are my sweet, lady!
You are my dream, lady!
I can’t live without you,
I can’t sleep without you,
I love, lady, dear, lady, you!”
P1: Here’s a special valentine
With lots of love for you
P2: And since you’re very special
Here are hugs and kisses, too!
P3: Ladies and gentlemen! Good day!
P4: It’s lovely to meet you here, at St. Valentine’s party!
P5: February, the 14th day.
It’s Valentine, they say
I choose you from among the rest
The reason was I love you best!
P6: Good day to you, Valentine!
Curl yourself and do I mine
One before and two behind,
Good day to you, Valentine!
P7: You know I love you,
I’ll always be true,
So, please, love me do.
P8: Someone to love,
Somebody new,
Someone to love,
Someone like you.
P9: I hope that St. Valentine’s Day
Will bring you lots of fun!
He thinks you’re extra-specially nice,
And so does everyone!
P10:You’re just the nicest kind of boy
So very grown-up, too.
No wonder that this Valentine
Brings lots of love for you.
P-s Just to little note to say:
Have a happy, happy Valentine Day!
P1: Valentine’s Day is celebrated on February 14th as a festival of romance and affection.
P2: People send greeting cards called “valentines’’ to their sweethearts, friends and members of their families.
P3: Many valentines have romantic poems, others are humorous. But almost valentines ask
“Be my Valentines”. It means be my friend or be my love.
P4: Valentines often show a cupid with an arrow. Cupid was an ancient god of love. People
often use red colour for valentines, because it’s symbol of love.
Groupwork.
T: Let’s divide into three groups. Take the cards and answer “What kind of valentines do you know?”
P1: I have Valentine with romantic poem:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
Sugar is sweet
And so are you!
P2: I’ve got valentine from unknown person.
“I’ll be your sweetheart, if you will be mine
All of my life
I’ll be your Valentine”.
Your secret Admirer.
It’s interesting to guess: who sent this Valentine?
P3: Comic Valentines are also traditional.
For example: “Let’s get married, because we can do our homework together”.
This Day became more and more popular.
Projects (Pupils recite poems which were prepared earlier. They wrote poems on the self-created “valentines” dedicated to their friends. After reciting, every student hangs on the Tree’s branch. So the love-tree is in blossom.)
P1: Today we have brought some valentines!
I have a little valentine
That someone sent to me.
It’s pink and white
And red and blue
And pretty as can be.
P2: Forget-me-nots
Are round the edge
And tiny roses, too; and
Such a lovely piece of lace
The very palest blue.
P3: And in the centre
There’s a heart
As red as red can be!
And on it’s written
All in gold “To you
with love from me”
Role-playing
Лунає музика, вимикається світло. У променях прожектора з’являється священик. Він іде
повільно. В цей час лунає голос:
“Valentine was a Christian priest in the Roman Empire 300 years after the death of Jesus Christ”
P1: My sweetheart, look! I can’t believe it. Is it St. Valentine himself?!
P2: You are welcome, patron of lovers.
Priest: My children! I’ve come from the distant past, to remind you of kindness and love, friendship and patience in your wicked world.
Not only when it’s St. Valentine’s Day
But always, all year through
You’re thought about with words of love
And wished much gladness, too!
P1: Do please take us back to the 1st century when The Roman Emperor Claudius II ruled our country.
Priest: All right! I see you love each other and may you dreams come true!
Світло вимикається, лунає голос:
“This is the legend of how St. Valentine Day began. When the Roman Emperor Claudius II needed soldiers, he made a law against marrying because he felt that marriage made men want to stay at home instead of fighting wars. But at that time there was a kindly prison named Valentine. He couldn’t agree with the emperor’s decision. When he saw that young couples were truly in love, he married them secretly”.
Інсценування легенди. Заходять юнак і дівчина. Вони стають на коліна і жестами благають священика здійснити обряд шлюбу. Він виконує їхнє прохання.
Priest: My daughter! My son! I declare you husband and wife!
Лунає марш Мендельсона. З’являється охорона.
Guard 1: Priest, you have been discovered and condemned to death!
Guard 2: To prison! To the Tower!
Наступна сцена. Священик у в’язниці. Виконується танок привидів. Заходить тюремний наглядач з дочкою.
Priest: What a beautiful girl!
Warder: This is my daughter. She is blind! She will probably never see the light, the trees!
Priest: I’ll help her by working a miracle!
Через деякий час дочка тюремного наглядача показує, що до неї повернувся зір.
Girl: I’m so grateful to you. Even in prison you, Valentine, showed your love for everyone and restored my sight!
Priest: Unfortunately, tomorrow, on February 14, I am to die. But I am not scared and I want to tell everybody on earth, “I love you. I’m your Valentine”
Голос из-за кулис: Just before his death, on February 14, he sent her a farewell message signed “From your Valentine”.
T: Do you know that the 14th of February is a day of fun and greetings.
Let’s have fun!
I. Guess the crossword:
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II. Divide into three groups (honey, dream, sweet).
Write the message with the correct punctuation.
Rosesareredvio
Letsarebluesiiga
Rissweetandsoar
Eyou
Ohmyloveislirea
Redredroseyuorva
Lentine
Myloveforyouisa
Sbigasanelephant
Butsoyouareto!
III. Love-mail
Each pupil has his own number and “Valentine”. Write your message. I’ll be your postman. Here is a mail-box.
Pupil 1. Our Party is over. We wish your love will live forever. Let Saint Valentine take care of you and save your love.