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Valentine’s Day Vocabulary

This lesson on YouTube English Danny is useful for Valentine’s Day vocabulary. Very interesting for ESL students who want to know more about this significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration.

How Did Valentine’s Day Start?

Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14.

Valentine's Day customs – sending greeting cards, offering confectionary and presenting flowers – developed in early modern England and spread throughout the English-speaking world in the 19th century. In the later 20th and early 21st centuries, these customs spread to other countries (source Wikipedia) but how did Valentine’s Day start?

Saint Valentine's Day

Valentine’s Day or Saint Valentine’s Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14 by many people throughout the world. In the English-speaking countries, 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. (Source: Wikipedia)

Some Valentine's Day teaching resources (lesson plans, printables, activities games...):

MES-English

http://www.mes-english.com/flashcards/holidays.php

ISL Collective

https://en.islcollective.com/resources/search_result?Tags=Search%20free%20ESL%20resources&searchworksheet=GO&Vocabulary_Focus=Valentine%27s%20Day&type=Printables

Busy Teachers:

https://busyteacher.org/classroom_activities-vocabulary/holidays_and_celebrations/saint_valentines_day-worksheets/

Hot Chalk:

http://lessonplanspage.com/valentines-htm/

St. Valentine's Day... again

Each year on February 14^th many people around the world celebrate St. Valentine's Day. It began as a liturgical celebration but now the day is associated with romantic love and people exchange cards, flowers, gifts... with their special valentine.

Internet gathers and disseminates educational resources about this celebration which may be helpful for ESL or EFL teachers to motivate students. After all, love is a universal theme.

This list is just a small sample of them:

Websites:

http://www.isabelperez.com/valentine.htm

http://busyteacher.org/classroom_activities-vocabulary/holidays_and_celebrations/saint_valentines_day-worksheets/

http://bogglesworldesl.com/valentines_day_worksheets.htm

http://www.teacherplanet.com/resource/valentines.php

http://www.esolcourses.com/topics/valentines-day.html

http://www.henry4school.fr/Celebrations/valentine/valentine.htm

http://lessonplanspage.com/valentines-htm/

On Pinterest:

https://www.pinterest.com/queenslace/crafts-february-st-valentines-day/

https://es.pinterest.com/debchitwood/kids-valentine-s-day-activities/

On Symbaloo:

http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/valentine1?searched=true

Valentine's Day. Teacher Resources

This webpage helps you make February 14 a special day with activities and lesson plans that extend Valentine's Day into academic subject areas. 

It offers plenty of printables, slideshows, worksheets, quizzes and art projects for you and your students. Printable books for teachers, card-making projects, information on the history of the holiday and other resources are also available.

Visit: https://www.teachervision.com/valentines-day/teacher-resources/6673.html

Valentine's Day

Saint Valentine's Day, commonly known as Valentine's Day, or the Feast of Saint Valentine,is observed on February 14 each year. It is celebrated in many countries around the world. 

Some Valentine’s Day Lessons Plans and Teacher Resources: 

http://lessonplanspage.com/valentines-htm/ 

And finally a funny video to help you say someone you love him or her: