Презентация к внеклассному мероприятию "St. Valentine`s Day"

области Стурова Т.В.
St.Valentine's Day
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Стурова Т.В.

on February 14, friends and lovers exchange candy, flowers, love

notes and greeting cards. These gifts are used as special messages of friendship and love. This tradition, as we know it today, has grown from two basic rootsPeople in many different countries celebrate Valentine's Day. Each year on February 14, friends and lovers exchange candy, flowers, love notes and greeting cards. These gifts are used as special messages of friendship and love. This tradition, as we know it today, has grown from two basic roots: the Roman festival of Lupercalia and the sad story of a Christian doctor named Valentine 

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For teachers

festival of Lupercalia on February 15. At first, the festival

honoured the Roman god Lupercus, keeper of the crops and farm animals. However, as time passed, the Romans began to honour a different god during the festival. Her name was Juno, queen of the Roman gods and guardian of women and marriage. At the festival, all unmarried people played a special game. All the females wrote their names on pieces of paper and dropped them into a big jar. Then, all the males drew names from the jar and spent the festival dancing with the person whose name they had selected. Celebrations of fun and love are still a part of today's Valentine tradition.

and more popular throughout the world, although it's origin is

a mystery. It is said that there was St.Valentine who lived in Rome and was known as christian priest who would marry young couples against the order of the Emperor...

better soldiers. Since then St.Valintine has become a patron of

lovers and saint patron of birds. The legend tells they choose their mates and begin to build their nests exactly on February 14th. Such an unusual and romantic legend makes the holiday very dear to many couples and some of them become engaged or even married on that day

Two or three hundred years ago, Valtine's Day was a

popular day to give someone an engagement rings.

the author of the card...
Like any other holyday

St.Valentine's day has it's traditions and customs. For example, there is a wide spread custom of sending greeting cards or express affection. The cards, known as Valentines, are designed with hearts or made in a form of a heart to symbolize love.

...they also include little poems that usually are composed by the author of the card...

you know I love you true
There is a lady sweet

and kind,
Whose lovely face still fills my mind.
I only saw her walking by,
But I will love her 'til I die.
 

celebrate on the 14th of February? 2.What roots2.What roots has this

tradition grown from? 3.What do you know about the festival of Lupercalia? 4.What things do friends and lovers exchange? 5.What are these gifts used for? 6.Is it a holiday for children? 7.St.Valentine’s Day isn’t a national holiday, is it?

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