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| Google Doodle for VALENTINE'S DAY |
Although you already know what my favourites are because I keep using them, here they are:
History Channel has a fabulous video on the history of Valentine's Day. Please have a look:
Besides other videos, written infos and a photo gallery, the site is also featuring stories of couples whose legendary romances changed the course of history - worth reading!
BBC published today some good resources which include a video on how to say the world famous "I love you" (and includes incredible images from London!!!), heart idioms,...
If teaching secondary levels / more advanced and not really elementary, there is always cnn. Here you will always find updated news and transcript with discussion questions - today it obviously includes questions but on Valentine's spendings in America that we can then use for comparison to fuel discussion about our own country.
For vocab exercises, have a look, for example, at lanternfish where you'll certainly find something for your students from crosswords to rhymes. At kaboose you will also find good resources which include recipes, coloring pages or games.
Songs and films, poems or paintings are also great to introduce or discuss this topic - as with everything, our great obstacle is... time.
To finish this blogpost, allow me to leave you with one of the greatest poets and poems of all time:
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet 18, 1609, William Shakespeare
What about you? What are your plans for today?Wherever you are, whatever you do, have a great St Valentine's Day!
2 comments:
Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments; love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no, it is an ever-fixèd mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his heighth be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
William Shakespeare
Faboulous blogpost!!!
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