The History of Valentine’s Day – worksheet
by GetEnglishLessons on 13/02/09 at 12:55 pm
Use this worksheet with your advanced students. They have to read the text and put the paragraphs into the correct order.
ANSWER: (2, 1, 4, 3)
Bring Culture to your EFL classroom and make a lesson around this well-known holiday.
Valentine’s Day or Saint Valentine’s Day is celebrated on February 14 by many people throughout the world.
In the West, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine’s cards, presenting flowers, or offering confectionery.
The holiday is named after two among the numerous Early Christian martyrs named Valentine. The day is most closely associated with the mutual exchange of love notes in the form of “valentines.” http://wikipedia.com
1. Play this explanatory video by History.com
Video: The History of Valentine’s Day
Do a quiz on line about the video – ESOLCOURSES.com
2. Tell them to watch the video again, writing in a piece of paper parts of the History of the Holiday, the different parts and different origins that mixed together, create what the holiday is today. Give them some time, make pauses if necessary.
3. Go around correcting students notes.
4. Later on, tell students to read aloud their sentences, trying to put together all the stories.
Have fun!
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