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St. Valentine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YguF1pcBWYI

Ask students to read the information within the table, explain any unknown vocabulary (e.g. pagan, fertility, sacrifice, feasting, mating period). Play the video again.

Students’ task is to match the people or events with other information form the table.

Example 0 : People give each other gifts and flowers on 14th February

0. People

gifts and flowers

14th February

1. A priest

a. official Valentine’s day

I. sacrifice and feasting

2. Pope

b. Roman Gods

II. The Mother of the American Valentine

3. Pagan fertility festival

c. send the first Valentine’s greeting

III. mating period

4. Geoffrey Chaucer

d. a poem

IV. to honour the priest

5. Esther Holland

e. send hand written cards

V. a woman

Answers: 1-c-V, 2-a-IV, 3-b-I, 4-d-III, 5-e-II

Once students have the correct answers they should create sentences e.g:

  1. A priest send the first Valentine’s greeting to a woman.

  2. Pope made the Valentine’s day official as he wanted to honour the priest.

  3. A pagan fertility festival that honoured Roman Gods was celebrated by sacrifice and feasting.

  4. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote a poem about mating period.

  5. Esther Holland started sending hand written cards and was named ‘The mother of the American Valentine’.

 Iserisci le parole in grassetto:

fallen – blindness – executed – conducted – held – associated – honour – birds – rituals – influenced – popularity

According to a Christian legend, there was a priest, who ___________  marriages that were against the orders of the Roman emperor. As a consequence he was ___________. However, before that he’d _____________  in love a woman whom he’d cured from _____________. The last contact he’d ever made with her was a love letter signed ‘ From your Valentine’. This message is said to be the first ever Valentine’s greeting.

A Christian Pope made the 14th February an official St Valentine’s day in the______________  of the priest of the same name.

There was a pagan fertility festival ___________ between 13th and 15th February that honoured Roman Gods and its founders through various ____________ such as sacrifice and feasting.

It was not until Middle Ages when the day was______________ with romance and love. Geoffrey Chaucer, an English poet, presented this aspect in his poem, in which we can find the connection of the beginning of the mating period of ____________  with love.

In 1800 Valentine’s day started growing in _______________ and soon everyone was sending hand written notes to each other. Esther Holland ,______________  by the British cards tradition, was the first to design a Valentine’s card, no wonder she was named the Mother of the American Valentine’s.