Valentine’s Day Slideshow

This A1+-A2 slideshow will provide your students with information about the tradition of Valentine’s cards but also about the origins of Valentine’s Day, according to legend, and a connected celebration in Ghana, Chocolate Day. The accompanying activities help develop speaking and writing capacities.

Vocabulary and structures

• • Saying and writing dates and numbers (150 million...)
  • Pronunciation:
  • Comparative and superlative (the most romantic, much more romantic, the second biggest...)
  • Passive (has been associated, was executed, are bought)
  • Prepositions: send to, interested in, associated with
  • Imperative
  • Relative pronouns: the day when, a prisoner who
  • Determination: teachers, students // the students in the class
  • Adverbs: tradition > traditionally
  • Have+EN

  NB: These are all in the text but you will have to choose what you want to teach at this stage and what can be left to mere understanding

Pronunciation

• pagan, cocoa
• Stress in: Valentine, romantic, anonymous, chocolate, prisoner, executed...

You can download the MP4 file below to use offline in class.