“A Very Special Date”1. What do you know about saint valentine's Day?

R/: It's a party in which lovers, boyfriends, friends express their love and affection mutual through some details.

2. Match the word with the correct definition.

A loved person, boyfriend.Sweetheart.

Girlfriend, wife. Etc.Sweetheart.

A present, something given Gift.

To cook in dry heat, in an oven To bake.

To wait in a standing position.To stand.

To remove something from something else by cutting all around it.To cut out.

3. Listen and read.4. Scan the text and complete these statements.

a. In the USA, people celebrate.R/:celebrated on February 14th.

b. On this date, theyR/: On this date, people send greeting cards called Valentines to their boyfriends, friends and members of their families.

c. In Colombia, people

R/:gives and receives cards and presents and play "Secret friend" at school or at work.

d. In Europe, children.R/: British children sing special Valentine’s Day songs and receive gifts of candy, fruit or money, and in some areas people bake cakes.

5. Answer the following questions based on your own experience.

a. Do you celebrate Saint Valentine’s Day in your country?R/: yes.

b. When is it?R/: the third Saturday in September.

c. Does it have the same name? if not, what is it Called?R/: Day of love and friendship.

d. How did you celebrate it last year?R/: We had one person in particular, and she gave him a gift of sweets.

e. Ask your parents or your grandparents about it.How did they celebrate it?R/: In the same way that is played at the moment.

6. listen and complete the postcard that Barbara wrote to a friend in Canada.

Last week, we CELEBRATES St. Valentine´s Day at school.

We HAD great party, I PREPARED a beautiful CAKEto my friend Betty. I decorated it witf colorful paper.She like it very much. My classmate brought GIFT and our french teacher GIVE a delicius CANDY.What about you? what did you DO on that day?Write soonLove, Barbara.

7. read what american´s do on this celebration and compare it with that of your own country.

R/: In December in Colombia people come to celebrate the birth of Jesus community . people decorate their homes with lights and ornaments. Children receive presents from Santa Claus in the night.Mains are custard , donut , pork, etc.

8. Brainstorm your idear about “mother’s Day”.Use this diagram, if you have more idear, draw more lines for them at home.

9. Now, organize your previous ideas in a brief paragraph.

Mother’s Day is a modern celebration honoring one’s own mother. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in the months of March or May. In most countries, Mother’s Day is a recent observance derived from the holiday as it has evoled in the United States. The modern American holiday of Mother’s Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in Grafton, West Virginia. Mny people send cards of gifts to their mother or mother figure or make a special effort o visit her.

December

Christmas

Join

Together

Sing carols

At home

One evening

Families

Baba

Yesus

Brith

Evening

10.How good are you at scanning numbers? Find the following years in the number puzzle.

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11.Choose a celebration (saint valentine’s day, labor day, Columbus day, thanksgiving day.Christmas, birthdays, new year, indepencnde day, etc.) design and write card to a friend of yours.

This letter is to tell you: what I feel for you and how much I love you. I would be with you every days but I can’t, because I live away.

It’s not every day that I feel so good with a girl. I always have something to tell you and you always listen attentively and you understand me in everything.

In this Valentin’s Day I write you because I fallen in love for you. I can’t stop thinking of how beautiful and wonderful you are. I wanna be with you sharing many moments together.

I love you. I send you a big hug and many kisses.

Deiby Chica VilladaCristian Torres ÁlvarezLaura Villamizar GóezEsteban Tabares