18.4 My funny valentine - tto123

18.4 My funny valentine - tto123

My funny valentine

Introduction

The subject of this period is Valentine’s Day.

  • Form groups of three or four pupils.

Discuss the following questions in your group:

  • What do you know about the history of Valentine’s Day?
  • Have you ever sent a Valentine’s card?
  • Have you ever received Valentine’s cards?
  • What is your opinion about Valentine’s Day?

Step

Activity

Aim

Time

 

Introduction

Find out what you already know.

10

Step 1

Listening
Valentine’s day

You can understand a spoken text about Valentine’s Day and answer questions about it.

15

Step 2

Reading
The legend of St. Valentine

You can understand a text about The legend of St. Valentine and answer questions about it.

15

Step 3

Vocabulary and irregular verbs

You can understand and use vocabulary about Valentine’s Day. The irregular verbs: to eat, to fall, to feed and to feel.

15

Step 4

Grammar
Future tenses

You can understand and use Future tenses.

10

Step 5

Speaking
Talking about love part 3

You can talk about love.

10

Step 6

Writing
An article about Valentine’s Day

You can write an article about Valentine’s Day.

20

Step 7

Evaluation

Reflect on what you have learnt.

5

Step 8

Extra
My funny Valentine

 

  

Step 1 - Listening

Valentine’s day

You are going to listen to a text about Valentine’s day.

  • Listen to the text and do assignment 1.
  • Read the statements.
  • Listen again and do assignment 2.
  • Listen again and do assignment 3.

Assignment 1

Copy and fill in the grid (on your own) and discuss the answers in your group.

What information do you get about: (use key words)

Cards

 

 

Other presents

 

 

where

 

 

who

 

 

history

 

 

Esther Howland

 

 

restaurants

 

 

 

Statements

  1. Valentine’s Day is only celebrated in English speaking countries.
  2. You always sign a Valentine’s card.
  3. You can also give red roses.
  4. Valentine’s cards are only sent by people who are in love.
  5. In Japan only men send Valentine’s cards.
  6. There is no confusion over which Saint Valentine the day is named after.
  7. Valentine of Rome lived in the 13th century.
  8. The bishop of Terni lived in the 14th century.
  9. The custom of sending Valentine’s cards started in England.
  10. Esther Howland started selling cards in the 18th century.

Step 2 - Reading

The legend of St. Valentine

You are going to read  a text about The Legend of St. Valentine.

  • Read the text and do assignment 1.
  • Read the text again and do assignment 2.

Assignment 1

Copy and fill in the grid (on your own) and discuss the answers in your group.

What information do you get about:   (use key words)

The introduction

 

 

Legend 1

 

 

Legend 2

 

 

Legend 3

 

 

Where celebrated

 

 

Lupercalia

 

 

Festival

 

 

 

The Legend of St. Valentine 

The history of Valentine’s Day–and the story of its patron saint–is shrouded in mystery. We do know that February has long been celebrated as a month of romance, and that St. Valentine’s Day, as we know it today, contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. But who was Saint Valentine, and how did he become associated with this ancient rite?

The Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom were martyred. One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine’s actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death.

Other stories suggest that Valentine may have been killed for attempting to help Christians escape harsh Roman prisons, where they were often beaten and tortured. According to yet another legend, Valentine actually sent the first “Valentine” greeting himself after he fell in love with a young girl–possibly his jailor’s daughter–who visited him during his confinement. Before his death, he allegedly wrote her a letter signed “From your Valentine,” an expression that is still in use today.

Although the truth behind the Valentine legends is murky, the stories all emphasize his appeal as a sympathetic, heroic and–most importantly–romantic figure. By the Middle Ages, perhaps thanks to this reputation, Valentine would become one of the most popular saints in England and France.

Origins of Valentine’s Day: A Pagan Festival in February

While some believe that Valentine’s Day is celebrated in the middle of February to commemorate the anniversary of Valentine’s death or burial–which probably occurred around A.D. 270–others claim that the Christian church may have decided to place St. Valentine’s feast day in the middle of February in an effort to “Christianize” the pagan celebration of Lupercalia. Celebrated at the ides of February, or February 15, Lupercalia was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus.

To begin the festival, members of the Luperci, an order of Roman priests, would gather at a sacred cave where the infants Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, were believed to have been cared for by a she-wolf or lupa. The priests would sacrifice a goat, for fertility, and a dog, for purification. They would then strip the goat’s hide into strips, dip them into the sacrificial blood and take to the streets, gently slapping both women and crop fields with the goat hide. Far from being fearful, Roman women welcomed the touch of the hides because it was believed to make them more fertile in the coming year. Later in the day, according to legend, all the young women in the city would place their names in a big urn. The city’s bachelors would each choose a name and become paired for the year with his chosen woman. These matches often ended in marriage.

Step 3 - Vocabulary

  • Study the vocabulary. (10 minutes)
  • Study the irregular verbs.
  • Do the exercises.

Vocabularylist My funny valentine


Tip!
There are many ways to work on your vocabulary in Wozzol.
You can say or copy the words out loud.
Click in Wozzol on the red arrow for the different options.
The most important thing is that you don't do this for too long, because then you don't learn anything anymore.
In two 10-minute sessions you learn more than in half an hour.

Irregular Verbs

Check out the knowledge base below and study the following irregular verbs:

  • to eat
  • to fall
  • to feed
  • to feel

Step 4 - Grammar

Future tenses

  • Study the theory.
  • Do assignment 1.

Step 5 - Speaking

Talking about love

Again, you are going to talk about love.

  • Form groups of three or four pupils.
  • Discuss the following questions in your group.
  • Make notes in key-words.
  • Report to the class.

Read the questions.

  1. How old were you when you had your first date?
  2. Is there a right age for a first date? What age is it? Why?
  3. Who do you think should pay for a date? Why?
  4. What was the worst date you've ever been on? What made it bad?
  5. What is the worst possible thing that could happen on a date?
  6. Is it okay to date more than one person at the same time? If so, what is the maxium?
  7. What's your idea of a perfect date?
  8. Is there a difference between "having a date" in American English
    and "een afspraakje hebben" or "gaan met" in Dutch?
    If so, what differences are there?

Step 6 - Writing

An article about Valentine’s Day.

You listened to a text and you read a text about Valentine’s Day. Now you are going to write about it yourself.

  • Introduce the subject.

Give information about the history of Valentine’s Day. (You can use the information from the text The Legend of St. Valentine from step 2).

  • Describe your own experiences.
  • Conclude with your opinion about Valentine’s Day.

Ask your teacher how many words you have to use.


Open the worksheet in google docs: An article about valentine's day.
Make a copy of the worksheet in your own account (File - Make a copy ...) or download the worksheet (File - Download as).

Step 7 - Evaluation

Fill in the schedule and answer the questions below.

Activity

Fun

Boring

Easy

Hard

I already know this

New

Listening

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reading

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vocabulary

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grammar

 

 

 

 

 

 

Speaking

 

 

 

 

 

 

Writing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What have you learnt in this double period?
Answer the following questions:

  • What was the easiest part of this lesson?
  • What did you already know?
  • What was the most difficult part?
  • What was new to you in this lesson?
  • What do you have to ask your teacher?

Step 8 - Extra

My funny Valentine

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    Deze les valt onder de arrangeerbare leerlijn van de Stercollectie voor Engels voor tweetalig onderwijs, leerjaar 1, 2 en 3. Dit is thema 2 'Being in love'. Het onderwerp van deze les is: My funny valentine. In deze les staat valentijnsdag centraal. Zaken die ook worden behandeld zijn de legende van St. Valentine en liefde. De onregelmatige werkwoorden in deze les zijn: to eat, to fall, to feed en to feel. In de grammaticaopdracht wordt de 'future' behandeld.
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