Valentine’s Day

Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 03 February 2017 > Ready to Use


This A1+-level article will shed perhaps a different light on what your pupils think of Valentine’s Day in the U.S.A and in the U.K. The audio activity distinguishing kind and mean messages in Valentine’s poems fits into the media education and citizenship curriculum.

Vocabulary and structures

  • friendship, love
  • simple present
  • simple past: irregular verbs
  • rhymes (same sound, different spelling)
  • rhythm in poetic structures


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