Презентация по теме "St. Valentine's Day"

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Проект по английскому языку: « St . Valentine's Day ». Муниципальное бюджетное общеобразовательное учреждение «Средняя общеобразовательная школа №8» г.Муром Владимирской области ул.Кооперативная, д.7 а Подготовили: Ученицы 11 «Б» класса Белякова Алина и Василец Ирина Учитель: Матвеева Ольга Васильевна

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One of the international holidays is St . Valentine’s Day . This holiday has its story about two sweethearts, that’s why it’s called the day of all sweethearts. On this day many people make a declaration of love and propose marriage. And if they’ve already found their love, they just remind about it and make surprises or give presents to each other.

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Legends of Valentine’s Day One legend says that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those married, he outlawed marriage for young men. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine’s actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death. And Valentine’s Day is celebrated in the middle of February to commemorate the anniversary of Valentine’s death, which probably occurred around 270 A.D. According to another legend, Valentine actually sent the first ‘valentine’ greeting himself. While in prison, Valentine fell in love with a young girl, his jailor’s daughter, who visited him during his confinement. Before his death, he wrote her a letter, which he signed ‘From your Valentine,’ an expression that is still in use today. Legends usually says that Valentine was a sympathetic, heroic, and romantic person. In the Middle Ages, Valentine was one of the most popular saints in England and France.

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1. In Britain unmarried girls get up on February 14 before sunrise, become near a window and look at passable men. According to the belief, the first man whom they will see, and is the promised. Features of celebration in the different countries :

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2. In Canada "Valentine's Day cards" can be given both to favourite people, and animals. The zoo Toronto holds an action when it is possible to visit free of charge animal, having brought them though one "Valentine's Day card". 3 . In the USA this holiday found popularity at the end of the 18th century and right there Americans thought up the symbol of a holiday – a figure from marzipan! 4 . In Italy St. Valentine's Day call in the sweet afternoon. The main gifts are cookies, candies and chocolate in the form of heart. Well, and certainly, flowers, there are a lot of flowers!

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5. In Australia today it is rather a holiday meeting with friends and colleagues. And there were times when the grown rich miners of Ballarat (the city where the gold deposit was found) ordered "Valentine's Day cards" cost in some thousands of pounds! They were made of the atlas, smelled sweet as spirits and were decorated with effigies of a humming-bird and birds of paradise. In Finland it, as well as in Australia, it is rather Day of friends, also is the holiday second for popularity after Christmas.

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6. In Japan tradition to give the sweet this day appeared from giving of one major company on production of chocolate. There started celebrating St. Valentine's Day in the 30th years, and still chocolate remains the most widespread gift. By the way, there St. Valentine's Day slightly reminds "on March 8 for men" as Japanese men receive, perhaps, even more gifts, than women: man's accessories like razor, lotion, a wallet. But the same box of truffles or chocolate cookies in the form of heart will be indispensable addition to it.

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7. At French on St. Valentine's Day it is accepted to give jewelry, and in Denmark people send each other dried white flowers. 8. And Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where this holiday …is officially forbidden, and, on pain of heavy fines.

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I nteresting facts about Valentine’s Day : Valentine’s Day is the second largest card-sending holiday of the year (after Christmas). Approximately 85 percent of all valentines are purchased by women. Modern Valentine’s Day .