Valentine’s Day

1. Valentine’s Day

2. Flow

1. General Information
2. History
3. Symbols
4. Vocabulary

3. 1. General Information

Valentine’s Day is :
• celebrated on 14th of February;
• traditional day for lovers in many countries;
• many people give cards, letters, flowers,
chocolate or presents to their spouse or
partner.

4. 2. History

Story no. 1 : Lupercalia
• old Roman celebration
• on 15th of February
• Lupercus: god of crops and fertility

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• Unmarried people played a game
• Women put their names on a paper in a big
jar
• Each men drew a paper and spend the festival
dancing with the woman he picked

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Story no. 2 : Saint Valentin
• in the 3rd century A.D. the Roman Emperor
Claudius II forbade marriages
• Valentine was a Christian priest
that performed marriages in secret
• for this reason he was caught and imprisoned

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• while in prison he fell in love with the jailer’s
blind daughter
• with his abilities he cured her blindness
• before dying he sent her a letter signed
‘From your Valentine’
• he died on February 14th

8. 3.Symbols

• cupid- symbol of love & desire
(Roman god of love, son of Venus)
• heart- symbol of love & passion
(the shape comes from the silphium plant’s,
used in ancient times as a contraceptive)

9. 4.Vocabulary

to have a crush
to be shut through the heart
to be nuts about somebody
to fell head over heels for
love at first sight
to grow old with somebody
to get struck by cupid’s arrow
to be broken hearted

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Happy Valentine’s Day !