The Party Devoted to St. Valentine's Day

The Party Devoted To St. Valentine's Day "Love Above All"

(the week of English )     performed by the students of the 9^th A and the 9thC forms

(The stage is decorated with flowers, colourful hearts, famous St Valentine's poems. Girls come down of the stage saying poems and throwing valentines to the guests.)

Roses are red, violets are blue.

Sugar is sweet and I love you.

Wake up on this special day,

And read these words from me.

It's not a dream. My love is true.

Look in my heart and see.

February the fourteenth day.

It's Valentine, they say, I choose you from among the rest

The reason is I love you best.

Sure as the grape grows on the vine,

So sure you are my Valentine.

The rose is red, the violet blue, Lilies are fair and so are you. I am like a cabbage

Divided into two;

The leaves I give to others

 But the heart I give to you.

Pupil 1: Ladies and gentlemen. Our compliments to you. And thanks for coming. And as you know - nothing like love!

Pupil 2: Why should you be so sure?

Pupil 1: Rack your brains. You've fallen from the moon. Happy holiday, my dear! Today is Valentine's Day. It's the day of lovers. And their watchword is love about all. You remember the moment of your love and first amorous glances, don't you? Because love works wonders.

Pupil 2: All right, all right, I give in, you win. I remember a beautiful moment... (Two boys sing the song and a nice couple dances waltz)

Where do I begin       

 To tell the story of how great the love can be?

The sweet love story

That is older than the sea,

The simple truth about love she brings to me.

Where do I start?

With her first "Hello"?

She gave the meaning to this empty world of mine There 'II never be another love, another time.

She came into my life And made my living fine.

She fills my heart

With very special things -

With angel song, with world imaginings.

She fills my heart with so much love

That anywhere I go

I'm never lonely with her along.

Who could be lonely?

I reach for her hand

It's always there.

How long does it last?

Can love be measured

By the hours in a day?

I have no answer now

But this much I can say.

I know I need her till the stars

All burn away, and she 'II be there.

Pupil 3: Where do I begin

To tell the story of how great the love can be?

Well, I'd rather start with the first love confession in our life. Who has not experienced it? Who can forget the very first time you dared to say "I love you"?

( Junior students perform the play by San McBratney "Guess How Much I Love You".)

Pupil 4: Love ... It's the most beautiful feeling mankind has ever known. It fills our hearts and thoughts, and deeds. It's a strong feeling, but it's very fragile and sometimes it needs protection. Pupil 1: Love... It's very a very complicated feeling. Sometimes it needs sacrifice and it's incompatible with hypocrisy, lie and insincerity.)

( Scene from "Tom Sawyer",     TOM GETS ACQUAINTED WITH BECKY)

Pupil 2: OK, we've unburden our hearts. But what do we do next?

Pupil 3: Why should not we tell a little story?

Pupil 4: It's worth trying!

Pupil 5: Let me present the characters of our story. Our hero is rather marvelous. He is art and

part of the party and one of the fair-haired boys. His life is all game and glee.

( Hero enters dancing )

Pupil 2: And fancy! Fancy that! One day he fell in love and decided to write a letter to his sweetheart.

Pupil 4: Can you imagine that? And pigs might fly. He had a white night writing the letter to his beloved.

Pupil 1: But there is no joy without alloy. At such divine night the evil genius dropped in on him. He has a bee in his bonnet and he is always busybody.

( The Evil Genius enters dancing. )

Pupil 3: To cut it short, the evil genius had a chat with our hero about love.
Hero (H): It is extremely sweet of you to call on me. But may I ask a favour of you, my dear
friend. Go away, you are nuisances today. I am busy.
The Evil Genius (EG): What are you doing? *

H: I am writing a love letter to my sweetheart.

EG: Then, don't be fussy and relax. The work will serve no purpose. Why should not we chat a little? To my mind, the better I get to know women, the more I find myself loving dogs.

H: Oh, oh, I am smelling a rat. You cannot be serious, you are mad. You are talking through your hat. Because, when we love we are in the seventh heaven and we can have the time of our life. As for me, love is a sight for sore eyes.

H: You know, love works wonders. Do you remember a story about Romeo and Juliet?

( Students perform the scene on the balcony ( Act II Scene I) from "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare.)

EG: Oh, my poor fellow. That is all hearts and flowers, simple whimper. In the end, Romeo

killed himself, and then Juliet killed herself. They killed themselves for love. It sounds dumb to

me. God rest their souls!

H: I talk about Thomas and you talk about Jonas. You're as deaf as a post, you block head. OK,

OK. I know there is a black sheep in every family, out the darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Love is a passion, sometimes violent, sometimes tender. Look! (Dance.)

EG: Oh, my poor passion ration! They are simply shrewish women. Believe me, they can drive

whoever into a corner. And fall in love with them and they put you on the rack. Though every

man is mad on some point.

H: The wolf may lose his teeth but never his nature.

EG: Never offer to teach fish to swim. Tell me better, how your mad love can declare his love to such a girl. ( Rap-girls enter and sing a song about girls, then rap-boys answer them back. )

EG: I am fed up - with your showing. Let's hold a shooting by questions-answers.

H: Ok, forward, you'll begin.

EG: What's love?

H: Love is blind.

EG: Good. What does love do?

H: Love makes the world go around.

EG: Whom does a young man fall in love with?

H: With the only Girl in the world.

EG: When do they fall in love?

H: At first sight.

EG: How?

H: Madly.

EG: They are then said to be?

H: Victims of Cupid's darts.

EG: And he?

H: Whispers sweet nothings in her ear.

EG: When the Only Man falls in love, madly, with the Only Girl, what does he do?

H: He walks on air.

EG: Describe the Only Girl in the World.

H: Her eyes are like stars, her teeth are like pearls, her lips are ruby, her cheeks are damask, her

form is divine.

EG: Have you forgotten something?

H: Eyes, teeth, lips, cheeks, form - nor, sir. I don't think so.

EG: Her hair?

H: Oh, certainly. How stupid of me. She has hair like spun gold.

( Students recite poems about the greatest feeling LOVE^ one is by Percy Bysshe Shelly "When the Lamp Is Shattered", the other by Edna St Vincent Millay "Love Is Not AH".)

EG: Very good. Now, will you describe the Only Man?

H: He is a blond Viking, a he-man and a square shooter who plays the game. This sort of Only

man has a devil in his eye. But he is not a cad. He has a heart of gold. And she falls in love with

him. 

EG: And marries him?

H: And marries him. ( Dances waltz.)    As you can see it is absolutely fantastic.

EG: There is another side of love.

H: Is there? What side?

EG: The seamy side. There are, you know, men, who are wolves in sheep's clothing and there

are, alas, lovely women who stoop to folly.

H: My goodness! I've lost my temper. You're disgusting. Let's drop this subject.

( Two Cupids appear and recite the poem by Henry Wardsworth Longfellow "The Arrow And The Song".)

I shot the arrow into the air,

It felt to earth, I knew not where;

For, so swiftly it flew, the sight

Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,

It fell to earth, I knew not where;

For who has sight so keen and strong

That it can follow the flight of a song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak

I found the arrow, still unbroken;

And the song, from beginning to end,

 I found again in the heart of a friend.

Pupil 5: All is well that ends well. And now, dear teachers and our guests, we'd like to say to
you a few words too, because our party is coming to an end.

                  How can we live without the passion

                  To hear dear teacher's speech,

                  And raise the light

                  That teachers switch in our souls.

 Pupil 3:     We have a dream for other times

                   And our love remains for ages,

                  As now, you see, you always shine

                  At school as if you're on the stage.

Pupil 1: We thank you, our dear teachers, for love, encouragement and hope. Pupil 3:   Within the classroom or inside the school.

               My friends and I will always live by rule

               To love and help the teachers of the school

               Who give us chance to think and be on move.

Pupil 2:   We wish you to have the whole world in your hands,

               We wish you a need of a song in your lands

               We wish you to follow your stars in your life,

               We wish you to have pupil's love in your school life,

               We wish you to win a fortune in a game

              And may your life never be the same.

               That is all for today.