Lesson plan for St.Valentine's Day celebration

1. ST.VALENTINE’S
DAY

2.  1. What is St. Valentine’s Day?
 2.
When and how do people usually
celebrate St. Valentine’s Day?

3.  3.
Who is St. Valentine? Why is he
saint?
 4.
What are the most popular St.
Valentine’s Day gifts?

4. Match the words with their meanings and write ideas of
presents for your beloved.
a) a plant, considered with reference to its blossom or cultivated
1. Candy for its floral beauty.
2. Card b) a person attached to another by feelings of affection or
personal regard.
3. Charm
c) a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is
4. Chocolate suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of
5. Cupid some person.
6. Flowers d) without ever ending.
7. Forever e) any of a variety of confections made with
8. Friend sugar, syrup, etc., often combined with
chocolate, fruit, nuts, etc.
9. Gift f) a piece of paper or thin cardboard, usually folded, printed with
10. Heart a message of holiday greeting, congratulations, or other
11. Holiday sentiment, often with an illustration or decorations, for mailing
to a person on an appropriate occasion.
g) the center of the total personality, esp. with reference to
intuition, feeling, or emotion.
h) a power of pleasing or attracting, as through personality or
beauty.
i) a winged being, or a representation of one, esp. as symbolic of
love.
j) something given voluntarily without payment in return, as to
show favor toward someone, honor an occasion, or make a
gesture of assistance; present.
k) a preparation of the seeds of cacao, roasted, husked, and
ground, often sweetened and flavored, as with vanilla.

5. Match the words with their meanings and write ideas of
presents for your beloved.
a) the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events
1. Hope will turn out for the best,
2. Joy b) a social gathering or
conversation, refreshments, entertainment.
3. Like c) corresponding or agreeing in general or in some noticeable
respect.
4. Love
d) a question or statement requiring thought to answer or
5. Party understand.
6. Promise e) an affectionate or familiar term of address
f) the emotion of, as of invited guests at a private home, fo
7. Riddles great delight or happiness caused by something
exceptionally good or satisfying.
8. Sweet
g) a card or message, usually amatory or sentimental but
9. Sweetheart sometimes satirical or comical, or a token or gift sent by
one person to another on Valentine Day, sometimes
10. Unity anonymously
11. Valentine h) a declaration that something will or will not be done, given.
i) having the taste or flavor characteristic of sugar, honey.
j) profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
k) the state of being one; oneness.

6. Read the text and answer the questions after the text
Saint Valentine's Day is a holiday, which is celebrated on February 14, is usually considered to
be one of the most popular holidays.
In Valentine's Day billions of cards are sent. It is also an occasion for customers to buy
chocolates, flowers, engagement rings, romantic dinners, and so on. The origin of the
celebration is very ancient and can be traced back to a Roman festival called "Lupercalia"
which was held in mid-February every year. The celebration purified new life in the spring.
Around the third century A.D., the holiday became associated with Saint Valentine, although it
isn't exactly clear how.
A popular explanation of the link between Saint Valentine and the Holiday says that at the time
of the Roman "Lupercalia" Festival marriage was a common tradition, but when Claudius II
became Emperor of Roman Empire he changed all of that. He outlawed all marriages because
he was afraid that men would refuse their duty to fight because they would not want to leave
their wives. Young couples still fell in love though and still wished to marry and they took
these desires to the Catholic Bishop Valentine who, understanding love, began to secretly
marry couples. When Claudius found out, he arrested Valentine and sentenced him to death.
While waiting in prison, Valentine began exchanging letters with the jailer's daughter and soon
had fallen in love with her. The day he was to be beheaded, he wrote her one last note and
signed it: "From Your Valentine".

7. Read the text and answer the questions after the text
In 496 A.D. Christianity had taken over Rome and Pope Gelasius outlawed
the pagan Lupercian Festival. Knowing it’s popularity, he looked to replace it with
something more ‘appropriate’ and set aside a day in February to honor the martyr St.
Valentine. Even though in 1969 the church removed St. Valentines Day from it’s
calendar of ‘official’ holidays, it is still widely celebrated today.
Whichever theory is correct, each story has heroic and romantic meaning. As
a result, the holiday has grown increasingly popular through the centuries. It's also
more meaningful than the naysayers believe. And although Valentine's Day has
become quite commercial, it still contains an important aspect shared by all of the
best holidays: time spent thinking of and being with the one you love.

8. Answer to the following questions:
1. When and where did St Valentine live?
2. Who was the emperor at that time?
3. What did St. Valentine do? What was his job?
4. Why didn’t Claudius like men to get married?
5. Why was St Valentine caught and put into prison?
6. What was the punishment that the Emperor ordered for him?
7. When did St Valentine write a note?
8. Who did he write the note to?
9. Why did he write it?
10.Why is St Valentine a symbol of Love?

9. Choose the right answer:
Valentine's Day :
a. was first celebrated in the 19th century
b. was celebrated much earlier than the 19th century.
Emperor Claudius used to:
a. forbid marriage,
b. kill newly married couples,
Saint Valentine
a. secretly helped couples to get married.
b. got married himself despite the new law forbidding marriage.

10. Say if the following statements are True or False or Not
Mentioned:
1. Many people liked Emperor Claudius but St. Valentine didn’t.
2. Soldiers weren’t allowed to get married.
3. Claudius forbade people to get married because then men
didn’t want to go to the army.

11. Now write a Valentine wish to one of your group
mates
Happy St.Valentine’s Day!