“St. Valentine’s Day”

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Objectives:

-to develop pupils’ speaking skills;

-to stimulate students think and analyze;

-to develop pupils’ outlook;

-to encourage pupils to study other subjects;

-to get acquainted students with St. Valentine’s customs and traditions .

Equipment: picture cards,  flash-cards, cassette with a song, the map of the world.

Procedure:

Teacher: Good morning, dear pupils. Today our lesson will be unusual. We will speak about love. Love is the best feeling of people. So, today we’ll see what team knows more  about  St. Valentine’s Day, traditions and customs connected with this holiday.

So, today we have two teams.

 Meet “Skyline”

Number1- Olha

Number2- Serhiy

Number3-Sashko

Number4-Iryna

Number5- Taras

Number 6,the captain of the team-Oleh

The next team is called “FREEDOM”

Number1- Orest

Number2- Natalia

Number3-Iryna

Number4-Snizhana

Number5- Serhiy

Number 6,the captain of the team-Slavik

 But it’s very interesting for me whether St. Valentine’s  Day is celebrated in other countries. Your hometask for today was to prepare a report about St. Valentine’s celebrations all over the world. You will name the country and I will stick a heart on the map of the world.

 

Valentine's Day Celebration in US

Valentine's Day dinner and dance parties are organized all over the country to celebrate the occasion. Many couples hold private celebrations in homes or restaurants. Another interesting part of Valentine's Day in US is the celebrations organized by kids. Several schools organize Valentine's Day programmes where children perform songs, dance, skits and plays. Children also gift handmade gifts and cards to their friends and teachers.

To those staying in different cities, Valentine's Day greetings are exchanged with the help of e-cards and by sending gifts through online Valentines Day gift shopping sites.

Valentine's Day in Canada

 

Valentines Day festival is celebrated with much enthusiasm in Canada. Valentine's Day balls and parties are organized all over the country where people express love for their spouses and sweethearts and enjoy to the hilt. Roses, chocolates, candies and cards are the most popular gifts for the romantic occasion.

As a tradition, children in Canada exchange Valentine's Day gifts with their friends. In several schools, classroom Valentine's Day Parties are organized where children put all the valentines in a decorated box. Later, teacher or a child distributes the cards. Kids are encouraged to prepare handmade valentine

 

 

Valentines Day Tradition in Australia
Just as in several other countries, people in Australia celebrate Valentine's Day by presenting cards and flowers to loved ones. While exchanging paper cards is a common way of greeting Valentine's Day these days more and more people are using SMS and e-mail medium to express their love for loved ones. Surveys reveal that men in Australia are more romantic and open about expressing their love as compared to Australian women. Men in Australia buy more cards than women do.

Valentines Day in Japan

 

Valentine's Day is celebrated in an interesting manner on two different dates in the country of Japan. On February 14, female present gifts to their boyfriends or any man close to them. The favor is returned to ladies on the White Day celebrated on March 14 when men pamper women who gave them gifts a month before on Valentines Day

Valentine's Day Custom in France
People in France once followed a peculiar Valentine's Day custom called “drawing for”. Unmarried young and old people would go into houses facing each other and begin calling out across from one window to another and pair off with their chosen partner.
There was also a custom in France to exchange elegant cards containing tender messages called cartes d'amities. These were not essentially Valentine and resulted chiefly due a trend popular in England.

Valentines Day in India

 

On February 14, the Valentine's Day restaurants, discos, Cineplex, pubs and pizza parlors see a particularly busy time as couples celebrate the day in togetherness. Many boys and girls even propose to their sweetheart on this romantic day. People also express love to their friends, teachers, siblings and parents. Popular Valentine's Day gifts exchanged in India include chocolates, fresh flowers, cards, soft toys and candies. These are also clubbed with several other gifts to pamper sweethearts.

 

Celebrations of Chinese Valentine's Day The celebrations of Chinese Valentine's Day or Qi Qiao Jie - the seventh eve is quite different from usual Valentine's Day celebration we see in rest of the world. There are specific and colorful rituals for the day besides the usual exchange of flowers, cards and chocolates as tokens of love between lovers. Following the tradition, lovers visit the Temple of Matchmaker on the Chinese Valentine's Day and pray for their love and happiness and their possible marriage. Singles too visit the temple on the day and ask for their luck in love. The Chinese Valentine Day is also known as the Daughter's Festival. Chinese girls always wished to learn a good handcrafting skill like the weaving maid. In some provinces of China, people decorate the ox's horn by flowers on the Chinese Valentine Day in a belief that the ritual will save them from catastrophe.

 

Valentine's Day Celebrations in Denmark

Valentine's Day is celebrated with great parties and get togethers all over Denmark. Different flowers, gifts and cards are sent across the world to the near and dear ones. In Denmark, various Valentine events take place such as musical concerts, display shows, game shows and art exhibitions take place. People book party halls and restaurants for the celebration with their Valentine. Some people love to visit the Little Mermaid, Den Lille Havfure in Copenhagen and the famous Tivoli amusement park specially on Valentine's Day while some plan special Valentine at an appealing holiday spot.

Custom of White Flowers
People celebrate the custom of White Flower with immense love and care. As per the tradition, people send white flowers called 'snowdrops' to their friends and lovers.

Valentine's Day in South Africa

Different events take place in various parts of South Africa. All the discotheques, pubs and restaurants are completely booked. South Africans as well as tourists attend huge balls where they match their dancing steps and flow in the Valentine mood with different alcoholic beverages. People of South Africa like to visit wildlife parks with their friends and families. Many other events like river rafting, mountaineering amidst the exotic islands of Cape Town and Johannesburg are main attraction of the day.

Saudi Arabia
In Saudi Arabia in 2008, religious police banned the sale of all Valentine's Day items, telling shop workers to remove any red items, as the day is considered an un-Islamic holiday. This ban created a black market of roses and wrapping paper.

 

Scotland

In Scotland there is a festival on St. Valentine’s Day. Unmarried boys and girls wrote their names on papers. Each one of them had to choose a piece and to spend the rest of the festival with this girl.

 

Taiwan

Valentine's Day is celebrated in Taiwan on February 14, but there is also a special Valentine's Day on July 7 of the lunar calendar, based on an ancient Chinese folktale . Both dates are equally as important. Many men purchase expensive bouquets of roses and other flowers for their sweethearts on these days. According to Taiwan tradition, the color and number of the roses holds much significance. For example, one red rose means "an only love," eleven roses means "a favorite," ninety-nine roses means "forever," and one hundred eight roses means "marry me."

Brazil

Valentine’s Day in Brazil is not celebrated on February 14th; Dia dos Namorados is commemorated on June 12th. This day celebrates St. Anthony of Padua who is believed to bring good fortune on marriages. As with all celebrations in Brazil, the day is celebrated with lavish parties complete with beautiful costumes. You can easily honor the Brazilian Dia dos Namorados without a huge party. Send your loved one a special note or gift on June 12th and celebrate with the Brazilians of the world.

 

Teacher:It’s time to start.I wish both teams good luck.

Task 1

Answer the question: What month is St. Valentine’s Day celebrated in? (February)

Task 2

“Midsummer night dream”, “Much ado about nothing”, “Hamlet”, “Othello”. Name the author of these plays. ( Shakespeare)

Task 3

Read the fable and fill in the gaps with the necessary words.

The Lion in Love

 

 

A lion once fell in love with a …….maiden and proposed marriage to her parents. The old people did not know what to say. They did not like to give their ………..to the Lion, yet they did not wish to enrage the ……of Beasts.

At last the father said:

”We …….highly honored by your Majesty’s proposal, but you see our daughter is a tender young thing and….. fear that you can do her some injury. You should have your claws removed and your ……..extracted, then we would gladly consider your proposal again.’’

The lion was so much in …that he had his claws trimmed and his ………..teeth taken out. But when he came again to the parents of the young …… they simply laughed in his face and bade him do his worst.

 

Task 4

 

Match the famous quotes about love:

Match the love quotes

When love is not madness,	it is not love.
A hundred hearts would be too few	to carry all my love for you.
Take away love	and our Earth is a tomb.
A man is not where he lives,	but where he loves.
True love stories	never have endings.

 

Task 5

Say if the following statements are true or false:

-To be awakened by a kiss on Valentine’s Day is considered very good luck(true)
-The oldest paper valentine still around is in the collection of the British Library in London. It was sent by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife in 1945 (false-1445)
-Legend has it that Valentine's Day is when birds find their mates (true)
-Until the 1900s, only English producers made Valentine cards, they shipped them all over the world(false 1800)
-In North America, Valentine’s is the 2nd most popular time to send cards (Christmas is the first) (true)
-In Japan, only girls give gifts on Valentine’s Day; (true)

-St. Valentine was a jailor(false)

-On February,14, 1779, the natives of Hawaii murdered Captain James Cook, the great English explorer and navigator. (true)

- In Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet” St. Valentine’s Day is mentioned. (true)

 Task 6

Match the famous couples:

Josephine	Napoleon
Minnie Mouse	Mickey
Cleopatra	Caesar
Juliet	Romeo
Isolda	Tristan
Barbie	Ken
Scarlet O’Hara	Rhett Batler

Task 7

Name 5 symbols of St. Valentine’s Day . (a rose, a dove, Cupid, a love knot, a heart)

Task 8

Listen to the song and fill in the gaps with the words:

LET IT BE

The Beatles

 

When I find myself in times of .........................(1)

Mother Mary comes to me.

Speaking words of............................. (2) let it be.

And in my hour of ..............................(3)

She is standing right in front of me.

(4) words of wisdom, let it be.

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be.

Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.

 

And when the broken hearted ..........................(5)

Living in the world ...........................(6)

There will be an ...........................(7) let it be.

For though they may be............................ (8)

There is still a chance that they will................... .(9)

There will be an answer, let it be.

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be.

Yeah, there will be an answer, let it be.

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be.

._______________(10) words of wisdom, let it be.

 

Let it be, let it be, let it be, Yeah, let it be

Whisper words of wisdom, let it be

 

And when the night is cloudy,

There is still a light that shines on me.

Shine until .........................(11) let it be.

I wake up to the sound of ...........................(12)

Mother Mary comes to ............................(13)

Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

Let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah, let it be.

There .........................(14) be an answer, let it be.

Let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah, let it be.

Whisper .........................(15) of wisdom, let it be.

 

 

 

Task 9

Listen to the story and guess the main character in it

He is the most famous of Valentine symbols and everybody knows that boy armed with bow and arrows, and piercing hearts . The arrows signify desires and emotions of love, and he aims those arrows at Gods and Humans, causing them to fall deeply in love. He has always played a role in the celebrations of love and lovers. In ancient Greece he was known as Eros, the young son of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty. ( Cupid)

Task 10

Answer the question:

What  the most famous valentine’s gift is made of sugar, cacao, butter? (chocolate)

Task 11

They say that opposites attract like magnets. If this is so, then you task will be to find words with opposite meaning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Task 12

Name the tenses in which the following words are used:

Worked, is cleaning, studies, has prepared, had done, am working, do, left, will celebrate, were kissing.

Task 13

Form the adverbs  from the adjectives in the following story.

We all celebrated St. Valentine’s Day in a small nice restaurant. Joanne was glad. She smiled (happy)…………………. Peter spoke (loud)……………… He knows English. He spoke English (fluent)…………….  My friend Jim is a piano player. He played (wonderful)………………. But one girl sat (quite)……………….. She spoke no word, but later she danced really (good)………….

On this day only my mum spoke (angry)…………………, because we came home (late)…………………

 

Task 14

Name the color of your heart. This color is the symbol of love. ( red)

 

 

Task 15

  Try to make 15 new words from the expression “ Happy Valentine’s Day”.

Task 16

Match the words with the similar meaning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teacher: Dear pupils, you played very well. It doesn’t matter which team is the  best. You all are worth receiving good marks. I want to ask you to write St. Valentine’s wishing to our guests.

( The teacher gives the pupils paper hearts on which the pupils write their wishing)

-May love catch you by the throat and force your lips to break into a smile.

-May the files of logic be corrupted in your brain by a bug called LOVE.

-May you unleash the storm of affection on your loved ones.

-May chocolates, candies and lovely treats bombard your family members, friends and dear ones.

-May romantic gifts lose their destinations and find a way to your shack.

-May you be the first victim, if charms indeed can kill.

-May you drown into the ocean of two beautiful eyes with none to save you.

-May Cupid arrest you and lock your finger with an engagement ring.