SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY. 14th FEBRUARY

 VOCABULARY (LISTENING)

bunch of flowers: ramo de flores

family: familia

sweets: dulces

chocolate box: caja de bombones

honey: miel, cariño

present/ gift: regalo

red roses: rosas rojas

violets: violetas

lace: bordado

ribbon: lazo

heart: corazón

to marry: casarse

couple: pareja

friendship: amistad

arrow: flecha

bow: arco

Cupid: Cupido

love: amor

kiss: beso

hug: abrazo

5th

  Valentine's Day is celebrated on February 14th every year. People send cards called "valentines" to their friends and family. Verses on valentines often rhyme and express love. Sometimes valentines contain humorous pictures. School children decorate their classrooms with red paper hearts. They exchange sweets, flowers or "valentines."

QUESTIONS:

1 When is Saint Valentine’s Day celebrated?

2 What do people do on Valentine’s Day?

3 What do “valentines” contain?

4 How do children decorate their schools?

5 What do children do that day?

ANSWERS:

1 Saint Valentine’s Day is on 14th February.

2 People send cards called “valentines” to their friends and family.

3 “Valentines” contain rhymes or humorous pictures.

4 Children decorate their schools with red paper hearts.

5 Children exchange sweets, flowers or “valentines”.

 

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Hi! I'm Mary. 

I am 11 years old. My birthday is.........

I'm tall/ short and  thin....

I've got black/ blond/ brown... hair and blue/ green/ dark...eyes. 

I'm English/ Spanish. 

I live in Spain/ near Logroño...  

I've got one/ no ....... sister(s) and one/ two ....... brother(s).  

My lucky number is 11/ 4...

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6th

Valentine's Day is celebrated on February 14th every year. In the USA people send cards called "valentines" to their friends, family, and relatives. The cards are usually anonymous. They don’t sign their names, they sign the card with a question mark.   

   In the evening there are special parties, and sometimes couples go to restaurants.

   On the top of the Empire State Building in New York there are red lights on this day.

   School children decorate their classrooms with bright red paper hearts. They exchange gifts, sweets, flowers or "valentines."

   The origin of this celebration could be this one: Claudius, the Roman emperor didn’t permit marriages because he needed lost of men in his army. Valentine (a Christian priest) used to marry couples secretly. One day he was sent to prison and executed in AD 270. He wrote a letter to his love and he signed it “from your Valentine”.

QUESTIONS:

1 When is Saint Valentine’s Day celebrated?

2 What do people do on Valentine’s Day in the USA?

3 Who sends the cards?

4 What do people do in the afternoon?

5 What can you see on the top of the Empire State in New York?

6 How do children decorate their schools?

7 What’s the origin of this celebration?

ANSWERS:

 1 Saint Valentine’s Day is on 14th February.

 2 People send cards called “valentines” to their friends and family and relatives.

 3 The cards are usually anonymous.They don’t sign the cards. They sign the card with a question mark.

 4 People have parties and sometimes couples go to restaurants.

 5 On the top of the Empire State you can see red lights.

 6 Children decorate their schools with red paper hearts and exchange sweets, flowers or “valentines”.

7 The origin could come from the Roman empire.

 

FAMILY= familia

parents= padre y madre

mother/ mum= madre/ mamá

father/ dad= padre/ papá

grandparents= abuelo y abuela

grandmother/ grandma/ granny= abuela/ abuelita

grandfather= abuelo

daughter= hija

son= hijo

sister= hermana

brother= hermano

twins= gemelos

aunt/ aunty= tía/ tita

uncle= tío

cousin= primo/ prima

niece= sobrina

nephew= sobrino

stepmother= madrastra

stepfather= padrastro

great grandmother= bisabuela

great grandfather= bisabuelo

great great grandmother= tatarabuela

great great grandfather= tatarabuelo

godmother= madrina

godfather= padrino

goddaughter= ahijada

godson= ahijado

mother in law= suegra

father in law= suegro

sister in law= cuñada

brother in law= cuñado

daughter in law= nuera

son in law= yerno

 

FAMILY MEMBERS: great grandfather, great grandmother, grandparents, grandfather, grandmother, parents, father, mother, husband/ wife, sister, uncle, aunt, cousin, son, daughter, nephew, niece

1My father’s mother is my…………………….

2 My mother’s father is my………………………

3 My aunt’s grandfather is my ………………………….

4 My son’s father is my……………………………

5My mother’s daughter is my……………………

6My sister is my mother’s………………

7My brother is my mother’s………………………..

8My grandpa’s son is my……………………./…………………………..

9My grandpa’s mother is my ……………………………………….

10My aunt’s son is my……………………………………………….

11My grandfather and my grandmother are my…………………………

12 My aunt’s daughter is my mother’s……………………………..

13 My uncle’s son is my father’s ……………….

14 My mother’s sister is my……………………………..

15 My father’s brother is my………………………………

16 My father and mother are my ……………………………

 

1 Grandmother

2 Grandfather

3 Great grandfather

4 Wife/ husband

5 Sister

6 Daughter

7 Son

8 Father/ Uncle

9 Great grandmother

10 Cousin

11 Grandparents

12 Niece

13 Nephew

14 Aunt

15 Uncle

16 Parents

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