Valentines day

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo
• Leerjaar 2

What are we going to do today?

Goals

Video about the history of valentine's day with questions

Make/write a secret Valentine's card + a poem inside

Goals ....

In this lesson: 

- You understand the basic history of Valentine's day

-You understand why people celebrate Valentine's day

-You understand how Valentine's day is celebrated

-You practice your listening skills

- Assignment: Make your own secret valentine's card

Write a rhyming poem or acrostic poem inside the card

Valentine's Day

What do we celebrate on Valentine's Day?

How do we usually celebrate Valentine's Day?

Make your own Valentine's card

Make your own Valentine's card for a classmate! (be creative)

Write a rhyming poem or acrostic poem inside the card of at least

14 lines or longer

Write the name of your Valentine in the card

At the end of the lesson I will hand the cards to your Valentines

Use www.rhymezone.com for the poem

Examples

Examples

00:15

How many people celebrate Valentine's day in America?

1. More than 60%
2. More than 54%
3. More than 62%
4. More than 52%

00:36

Why did the christian church choose mid-february for valentines day?

1. To celebrate Lupercalia
2. To christianize the celebration

00:56

Who was Saint Valentine?

1. One Pope
2. One Christian cleric
3. Several different Popes
4. Several Christian clerics

01:03

Who declared February 14 as a day for soft hearted Valentine at the end of the 5th century?

1. Pope Francis
2. Pope Benedict
3. Pope Gelasius

01:10

In which year was the holiday associated with love and romance?

1. 1300
2. 1200
3. 1400
4. 1500

01:45

How many valentine's day card are sent each year?

1. 5 billion
2. 4 billion
3. 2 billion
4. 1 billion

02:03

How many dollars do Americans spend per year?

1. 20 million
2. 20 billion

00:18

Where does Valentine's day originate from according to this clip?

1. It comes from Christianity
2. Companies made it up
3. Contains traces of early Christian Rome
4. It originated from the ancient Greeks

00:35

The association between the month February and romance goes back to a pagan festival known as what?

1. Christianity
2. Lupercalia
3. Valentine
4. Rome

00:57

Who decalared February 14th as Saint Valentine's day?

1. Pope Gelasius
2. Pope Francis
3. Pope Benedict XVI
4. Pope Jean Paul II

01:03

There was only one Saint Valentine

1. True
2. False

01:12

In what century (eeuw) did Saint Valentine live?

1. 1st century
2. 2nd century
3. 3rd century
4. 4th century

01:30

Why did the Emperor ban marriage?

1. Because he could not find a wife
2. Because he needed more man for his army
3. Because his parents did not marry
4. Because there were too much people

01:46

Why was priest Valentine arrested?

1. He stole some flowers
2. He murdered someone
3. He was against the church
4. He secretly married people

02:10

What did people throw in his jail cell?

1. Books
2. Flowers
3. Food
4. Notes

02:26

Who was the Roman god of love?

1. Hermes
2. Hercules
3. Cupid
4. Remus