The document outlines a lesson plan for teaching middle school English learners about Valentine's Day. It involves brainstorming about how the holiday is celebrated in Armenia and the US, watching a video about its celebration, collecting vocabulary related to the topic, classifying and practicing parts of speech, comparing tenses, doing dialogues and interviews, watching a story, and assigning homework on an imaginative ending and retelling Romeo and Juliet. The topic integrates history, business, media, and traditions while practicing vocabulary, grammar, speaking, and listening skills through various exercises and tasks.

1. Vocabulary In Social Media
Valentine Day
Hasmik Charkhchyan

2. Course book: Interchange by Jack C.
Richards
Social Media: YouTube
Topic: Valentine Day Celebration
Source: A Conversation about Valentine's
Day

3. YouTube as the best way of
auditory and visual learners.
Videos can be used for
● Listening
● Speaking
● Teaching vocabulary
● Discussions
● Grammar exercises

4. The characters of the
story use a lot of
● Verbs
● Nouns
● Adjectives
● Phrasal verbs
● Future Simple
● to be going to
related to the topic

5. Learners: Middle school
students
Age: 12-13
Level: Pre-intermediate
English as a second foreign
language
American English learners
Active users of YouTube

6. 1. Brainstorming: Celebration of Lover’s
Day in Armenia (5 mins)
2. Reading and discussion: Celebration of
Valentine Day in the US (10 mins)
3. Listening: Watching the video (2:30
mins)
4. Vocabulary Work: Collecting the words
related to the topic (2:30 mins)
5. Group game: Classifying nouns, verbs,
adjectives, practicing them in the
sentences (5 mins)
6. Grammar: Comparison of Present Simple
and Future Simple and structures with to
be going to (10 mins)
7. Dialogues: Interview a friend (onion
game) (5 min)
8. Watching: The Story of Valentine (5mins)

7. Hometask: Write the
imaginary ending of the
romantic story .
Watch the story of
Romeo and Juliet and
retell it. Listen to the
song What Is A Youth…
"Romeo And Juliet"

8. Holidays, traditions
History
Business and
Marketing
Media
The topic includes several components.
Studying about traditional holiday the
students find the integration of History,
marketing and media in it. They practice
it via exercises and tasks and also revise
while doing the hometask.
In the video the characters of the story
impulse learning of intentional
vocabulary. They speak slowly,
emphasize the words in the sentences,
clearly pronounce them, and those words
are all shown. But the hometask is
intended for incidental vocabulary
learning as we have a long story and a
storyteller tells monotonously.

9. Collecting different parts of speech in a
context enables the students express
their thoughts, ideas about the topic
freely. Interviews, dialogues, games
create an opportunity of speaking
together, helping each other to form
sentences, use the word bank they got
from the topic.
Images: Wikimedia Commons
The lesson I planned doesn’t
connect my students to a
community of fans but soon
we’ll have both Armenian and
American holidays and I’ll ask
them to find “fandoms” and
share their learning and practice
the knowledge they got.