–What are the symbols of  Valentine’s Day? Can you draw three symbols and label them?

–Cross out two linking words which do not fit.

The origins of valentines

In the 14th century, people in England and France associated St. Valentine's Day with romantic love, [as / but / because] they believed that February 14 was the day on which birds paired off to mate. During that period lovers often exchanged notes on this day. [However / Moreover / Also], they called each other their Valentines. Many legends about St. Valentine come from this period.

–Complete the text with the words in the box.

annual   inspiration   received   shortly   stationery

The first valentines in the US

In the US, Esther A. Howland produced and sold the first mass-produced valentines (a)__________ after 1847. She (b)__________ an English valentine and took her (c)__________ from it. She sold the cards in her father’s large (d)__________ shop. Since 2001, the Greeting Card Association has been giving an (e) __________ “Esther Howland Award for a Greeting Card Visionary”.

–Connect the words in bold with their synonyms below.

Valentine Cards Nowadays

(a) Nowadays mass-produced cards are more popular to the hand-written notes. The Greeting Card Association (b) estimates that people around the world send (c) approximately 1 billion valentine cards (d) each year. Women (e) purchase approximately 85% of all valentines. Thus, St. Valentine’s Day is the second largest card-sending holiday of the year, just behind Christmas.

Designed by Bartosz Michałowski for Pearson Longman              PHOTOCOPIABLE 2

Adapted from WIKIPEDIA (en.wikipedia.org) – the FREE encyclopaedia

Did you draw in Task any of the symbols below? If, yes put a tick (√) next to them.