Saint Valentine’s day

1.

Saint Valentine’s
day
For senior students
English teacher
G. N. Gavrilevich

2. Guess the holiday!

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OHTREM’S YDA
CRHASIMT
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ITOCVRY ADY
YAM YAD
LAETVLNE’S ST. YAD

3. St Valentine's Day.

Day
 It is a very sentimental unofficial holiday,
which is celebrated on the 14th February by
those who believe in love and friendship. Boys
and girls, husbands and wives, just friends send
nice cards to each other with warm greetings on
the day. No one can trace origin of this
European tradition, but the legend tells us a
story of an Italian monk Valentine who helped
young people to marry breaching thus the
ruler's law. St Valentine was executed but
people still remember him and celebrate this
saint's day as a day of love.
The best presents are small trifles, chocolates
and greeting cards.

4.

The history of the holiday
St. Valentine’s Day is a religious
holiday.Do you know,who was
St.Valentine? One of the legend
says,he was a Christian priest,who
had been thrown in prison for his
teaching. On February,14 Valentine
was beheaded,not only because he
performed a miracle-he cured the
jailer’s daughter from her blindness
the night before he was executed-but
he wrote a letter to the girl signing it
«From your Valentine ».

5. Traditions

• In some countries, a young woman may receive a gift of 
clothing from a young man.If she keeps the gift, it means 
she will marry him.
• If you cut an apple in half and count how many seeds 
are inside, you will also know how many children you will 
have.
• In Wales wooden love spoons were carved and given as 
gifts on February,14. Hearts, keys were favourite 
decorations on the spoons.
• If a young  woman saw a robin flying overhead on 
Valentine’s Day, it meant she would marry a sailor.
• If a woman saw a goldfish, she would marry a millionaire.

6.

Cupid
Cupid is the most famous Valentine
symbol, who is known as a mischievous,
winged child whose arrows signify desires
and emotions of love. Cupid aims those
arrows at Gods and humans, causing them
to fall deeply in love. In ancient Greece he
was known as Eros, the young son of
Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty.
To the Romans he was Cupid, and his
mother was Venus.

7. St. Valentine’s symbols

Guess them:
   Cards                                                      
Chocolates 
Engagements &
Proposals
 Flowers 
Gloves 
Hearts 
Letters 
Love Spoons 
Ribbons

8. Meaning of Different Colors of Roses

Rose of different colors symbolizes different emotions and feelings. One therefore needs
to be careful while presenting a rose to loved one:
Red Roses - Love and passion 
White Roses - True love, purity of the mind and reverence
Pink Roses - Friendship or Sweetheart, admiration
Peach Roses - Desire and excitement or appreciation
Lilac Roses - Love at first sight and enchantment
Coral Roses - Desire
Orange Roses - Enthusiasm and desire
Black Roses - Farewell or "It's Over"
Bouquet of Red and Yellow Roses: Happiness and celebrations
Bouquet of Yellow and Orange Roses: Passion
Yellow Roses - Friendship, celebration and joy
Bouquet of Red and White Roses: Bonding and harmony

9. Find the words

KsLortojkfvalentinekiutgbromancetcandyk
yegwsfvnkinjkoyfriendnhyiokcakemnbghjm
loveiuytioyhearthjkfdscardnbghydancekuy
hjdatejhgfgiftjulkioflowersghjomohgfdiuyo
nkjuihyjoyfdmarriagejghklmnbringcxdfros
esbvchkggggddingkjhceremonybvcxarrowb
nmghfeelingkjhgfchocolatenbvhoneylkjhui
sweetsmnbvcxhbeautifultyuiodearasdfletter
bnxdfg charmingrtyyuucupidnbpinkgfdikio

10. Famous couples

Prince
Othello
Romeo
Lady Hamilton
Margaret
Captain
Grey
Ophelia
Admiral
Nelson
Assol
Adam
Desdemona
Cinderella
Eve
Master
Juliet
Hamlet

11. Create your poem about love

----------------------------------------day
----------------------------------------say
----------------------------------------you
----------------------------------------too!

12. Choose the definition

Heart: a) a present,b)an organ,c) sweet food.
Sweetheart: a) a greeting,b) a lover,c) a candy.
Gift: a) a flower,b) a feeling,c) a present.
Tender: a) kind,b) funny,c) gentle.
Wedding ceremony: a) a dance,b) a diamond,c)
marriage.
Cupid:a) God,b) winged child,c) Valentine.

13.

Let’s talk about love
My heart is-----a boiling kettle
My heart is----fire
Your heart is----a diamond
Your heart is-----ice
Your lips are----roses
Your lips are-----honey
Your eyes are----stars
Your eyes are----an ocean
My love is-----the Universe
My love is----the sky
as hard as
as cold as
as hot as
as deep as
as bright as
as blue as
as red as
as sweet as
as endless as
as nice as

14. Jumbled letters

• Unscramble the following words:
Tearh
Elvo
Esewt
Natevilne
Maroecn
Upicd
Siks
Cochalote
Rifedn
Lofrew

15. What children think about love

• Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a
boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out
and smell each other.
• Love is when mummy gives daddy the best
piece of chicken.
• Love is when you tell a guy you like his
shirt,then he wears it every day.
• Love is when your puppy licks your face even
after you left him alone all day.

16. What is love?

• 1.What is love?
• 2.What does love
do?
• 3.When do a young
boy and a young girl
fall in love?
• 4.How?
• 5.They are then said
to be?
A) Madly.
B) At the first sight.
C)Love is blind.
D) Love makes the
world go round.
• E)Victims of cupid’s
darts.

17. Love poems

• She walks in beauty,like the 
night
• Of cloudless climes and starry 
skies,
• And all that’s best of dark and 
bright,
• Meet in the aspect and  her 
eyes;
• Thus mellow’d to that tender 
light
• Which heaven and gaudy day 
denies
• Lord Byron
What’s in a name? That’s  
which we call a rose
By any other word would smell 
as sweet.
So Romeo would, were he not 
called Romeo,
Retain that dear perfection 
which he owes
Without that title.Romeo, deny 
your name;
And for your name,which is no 
part of you,
Take all myself.
• W. Shakespare

18. Let’s make Valentine cards