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Valentine’s Day is February 14th.
 Yahoo! Personals has some advice on how to ensure it stays on track by avoiding gifts that can kill the romance.
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| International Valentines |
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Chinese Valentine's Day, origins of Valentine's Day, Seven Sisters Festival, different customs in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia, true and false, verb patterns with verbs, want and hope) Valentine crossword. Pre-Intermediate |
| Falling in Love |
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This warmer gets students to read and look for spelling errors as well as understand the history behind Valentine's Day, discuss a topic and then work together to design a card. Pre-Intermediate |
| Expensive Weddings |
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Thousands of Chinese women are vying to attend a lavish ball lured by the dream of a possible fairytale match with a millionaire. Cinderella's ball, where several multi-millionaires will pay around $5,400 for the privilege of meeting them. (Marriage, finding a partner, weddings, fairytales, quantifiers - expressions of quantity.) Intermediate |
| Wedding Dress Record |
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A Chinese bride is hoping to enter the record books after getting married in a wedding dress with a train more than 2 km (1.2 miles). (Wedding customs, discussion, role play, superlative adjectives, adjective order, romantic poems.) Pre-Intermediate |
| Gifts to Kill a Romance |
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Yahoo! Personals has some advice on how to ensure it stays on track by avoiding gifts that can kill the romance: a list of the top 10 worst gifts for new relationships after asking Web site users for suggestions. (Dating, brainstorming, working with unfamiliar vocabulary, reading for gist, some/any). Intermediate |
| How much is your love? |
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Love comes at a hefty price in South Korea. There are up to 21 anniversaries, special days and celebrations a year for couples to shower each other with affection and gifts, and as a result some relationships are crushed under the weight of festivities. (Festivals and special days, romance, South Korea, discussion, matching information, comprehension, present simple tense - uses.) Upper-Intermediate |
| Will You Marry Me? |
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A man in London hid a $12,000 engagement ring inside a helium balloon. The idea was that his sweetheart would would pop the balloon as he popped the question. But then the balloon blew away. (Predicting, comprehension, past simple tense: regular and irregular verbs, past simple and past continuous). Pre-Intermediate | |
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