Tech You Can Do: Valentine's Activities You Can Do. My job has many different components - which I thoroughly enjoy - and the top two pieces to my job is when I get to work directly with teachers and when I get to work directly with students. I have been fortunate enough to be working with one group students regularly for 2 years now. Most of the time, I've got a targeted lesson to tie into something they are working on in class or something their teacher has asked we work on ... but I surprised them Friday with a Valentine's Day themed selection of activities.These students know Google Slides. They have been working with Slides since 2nd grade, so that's nothing new. However, I published this slidedeck to the web, so they got to see it in a different light. (At first they didn't even recognize it as Slides.)
I used the Jourdain presentation template from Slides Carnival and they "oohed & aahed" over it. Since it's "choice activities", I explained they had 6 different activities to choose from and they were free to switch at any time. How to explain Valentine's Day Part 2 | Explaining Customs and Culture in English. How to Explain Valentine's Day | Explaining Culture in English | Customs and Culture. What is love? - Brad Troeger.
“Love” is a word we easily twist around to fit our own purposes. If we can learn to distinguish love from emotional dependence and put this distinction into practice, then we make life more beautiful not only for us, but for everyone we meet. Here's a guide to making the distinction. To learn more about what Brad Troeger is up to, check out his website and his blog. It turns out the brain in love looks strikingly similar to one on drugs like cocaine! Find out what drives love and why we simply love being in love. Here's the classic music video by Hadaway, What is Love? Why do we love? A philosophical inquiry - Skye C. Cleary. Ancient Egyptians wrote passionate love poetry in hieroglyphics thousands of years ago, but it's only in the last couple of hundred years that we've started referring to love as 'romantic'. We started calling it romantic because it’s dazzlingly magnificent like the Roman Empire. Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins have put together a selection of excerpts from Plato’s Symposium to late twentieth century philosophies in the Philosophy of (Erotic) Love.
Irving Singer wrote extensively on the history of love in his trilogy called The Nature of Love, which also starts with Plato, plots the rise of romantic love, and then explores ideas of love in the modern world. More recently, philosopher Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins at the University of British Columbia has been investigating the metaphysics of love, including questions such as “what is love?” The Odds of Finding Life and Love | It's Okay to be Smart | PBS Digital Studios.
The Science of Kissing | It's Okay To Be Smart | PBS Digital Studios. Valentine's Day. Valentine | Search Results. My latest New York Times post for English Language Learners is on Valentine’s Day and idioms. It includes a student interactive and teaching ideas. And here’s a “video bingo” activity that didn’t get included because of space limitations, but I thought readers would find it useful so I’m sharing it here.
It’s in four “steps”: 1. 2. 3. 4. This kind of video bingo can be used with any kind of video! You can see all my previous New York Times posts here. I’m adding these activities to The Best Sites To Learn About Valentine’s Day. How Valentine's Day Works - HowStuffWorks. Valentine's Day - Facts, Origin, Meaning & Videos - History.com. 3 activities for Valentine's day | Online TEFL Training. Whoops! You’ve completely forgotten that Valentine’s Day is round the corner and you haven’t planned anything with a romantic theme for your classes. Don’t panic – Here are 3 last-minute love lessons / activities for you to try which require very little preparation.
TIP: Not all learners feel comfortable talking about their private lives and relationships. In order not to invade their privacy, you might want to ask them to create roles based on pictures. Briefly introduce the concept of ‘speed dating’. Great for: 2nd conditionals “If you were to go out with me, you’d have the night of your life.” Create a simple handout on an A4 sheet of paper. Who was the man? Who was the woman? Where were they were they met? What was he doing when they met? What did they say to each other?
What did they think of each other? What did they do after they met? What happened in the end Great for: Practising narrative tenses. Give each student a portrait photo. What should people do to find a partner? Talk2Me English : My Valentine - A fun lesson for Valentine's day. I discovered the song 'My Valentine' by Paul McCartney this week and thought it would be perfect for a Valentine's day lesson. The song is so romantic ♥ My lesson ended up being rather funny and very lively, I hope your students will enjoy it as much as mine did :-) Level: IntermediateLesson activities: Talking about Valentine's day, using sign language to learn vocabulary, listening practice and fill the blanks exercise.
Warm up questions: 1. What do you know about Valentine's day? 2. Which shape symbolises Valentine's day? 3. Task 1Tell students that you are going to show them a You Tube video of a song by Paul McCartney called 'My Valentine'. Task 4Hand out the 'fill the gaps' exercise, play the song again from the beginning and get the students to complete the missing words. Task 5 - DiscussionDiscuss what the general meaning of the song is. Quick quiz - Look at the lyrics and:1. Happy Valentine's day ♥ The history of marriage - Alex Gendler. L.O.V.E. – activity/lesson plan | ELT stories. St. Valentine’s day is approaching so here’s a lesson plan on the topic of love and friendship. Students warm up by playing a word game (stages 4-5) that encourages them to think deeper about what they read into a range of concepts related to love and friendship andpushes them to recall vocabulary on these topics The lesson ends in a discussion activity (stage 6).
Level: B1-C1Length: 30-60 min (depending on whether you do the discussion activity)Focus: speaking (a conversation class)Materials: Worksheet Stage One. (Collage produced using [Optional] If the students came up with the topic of St. Say ‘I’m thinking of one of these pictures. Unitysupportfriendshipvow (for a B2-C1 class) Get the students to quiz each other in new pairs: one person chooses a picture and says their associations, the second guesses which picture is being described; listen in an board some of the students’ associations. Stage Two. Stage Three. Stage Four. Stage Five. A Huge Collection of Famous Celebrity Romantic Love Letters. Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy – a lesson. It’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow, and although I don’t normally do anything for it, I thought that this year I would take the opportunity to share one of my favourite poems with my students.
Here’s the plan in case you want to do it too. Ask your students what day it is, and whether anything special happens on this day in their country. What do they know about Valentine’s Day in the UK? What kind of gifts do people normally give for Valentine’s Day? Give each group the word cloud. Show them an onion. Ask the students to close their eyes and put their heads on the desk (but try not to fall asleep!). Ask them to discuss how similar the poem was to their ideas. You can then do some pronunciation/speaking work. They talk about why you pause in those places – it’s because of line/stanza breaks, and also phrases within the lines. They can chose whether to read Valentine, or an anti-Valentine poem. In groups with other students who have chosen the same poem, they practise reading it. Like this:
Love is Blind - level 1. Hi Lang I’m writing in English to practise. I’m sorry I didn’t answer your email. I started school the day after we arrived in Boston and I’ve got too much work to do. I hate it here. I can’t understand what people are saying. I miss Shanghai and I miss playing in the band with you.
Hey, I’ve got to stop. Please write back soon. Deshi PS: I think I’m in love! Deshi turned off the computer and opened his English book, but it was difficult to concentrate on irregular verbs. Deshi couldn’t sleep that night and he was late for school the next morning. School didn’t go well that day. Deshi thought about how unhappy he was as he went down the stairs. Brendan Dunne. Love is Blind - level 2. Hi Lang I’m writing in English because I know we both need to practise.
Thanks for your last email. I’m sorry I didn’t write back sooner. I started school the day after we arrived in Boston and I’m very busy with extra work. I hate it here. I can’t understand what anyone says to me. I miss Shanghai and I miss playing in the band with you. I’ve got to stop now. Please write back soon. Deshi PS: I think I’m in love! Deshi turned off the computer and opened his English book.
Deshi couldn’t sleep that night and he got up late the next morning. He had a terrible day at school. Later that evening, Deshi was in his room, practising his guitar with the headphones on. Deshi went down to the street feeling really unhappy. Without thinking, he picked it up. Love is Blind - level 3. Hi Lang I’m going to write to you in English from now on because we both need the practice. Thanks for your email. I’m sorry I didn’t write back to you before now, but I started school the day after we arrived in Boston and I’ve been too busy.
I hate it here. I can’t understand a word that anyone says to me. I miss Shanghai so much and I miss playing in the band with you. Hey, I’ve got to stop now. Please write back soon. Deshi PS: I think I’m in love! Deshi turned off his computer and opened his English book. That night, Deshi couldn’t sleep and he was late for school next morning. School didn’t go well that day. Deshi was feeling miserable as he went down the stairs.