happy valentine's day 2021 - elt connect
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Level – B1
1) Is Valentine’s Day celebrated in your country? 2) Do you believe in Valentine’s Day? Why/Why not? 3) Have you ever received a card from a secret admirer? 4) Do you think it has become too commercialised? 5) How will you spend this Valentine’s day?
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Discussion Time:
Explain the phrasal verbs below to your partner:
Vocabulary
Sample Sentence
To break up with someone David broke up with Jill and she’s heart-broken.
To flirt with someone
They are friends but he is always flirting with her.
To chat someone up
She chatted him up and now they’re dating
To fall for someone They were friends but he fell for her.
To make a move on someone
He found the courage to make a move on Jane.
To hit it off with someone
They’re very similar; they hit it off the minute they met.
To ask someone out
She decided to ask him out so they have a date.
To go out with someone
I used to go out with John and then we broke up.
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In groups, look at the images and tell the love story.
Now watch the animated movie, ‘Extinguished’ by CGMeetUp on YouTube. Is your story similar to this one?
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Teachers Notes
Lesson:
Group Discussion: Assign students into small groups to discuss the 5 questions on the topic of Valentine’s day.
Phrasal Verbs: In the same groups, students discuss each of the phrasal verbs and together write a definition of their meanings using the given sample sentence to help them.
Level: B1/Intermediate
Topic: Valentine’s Day
Author: Aoife McLoughlin
Lesson Aim: To introduce students to commonly used vocabulary in relation to love and relationships with a particular focus on phrasal verbs.
Lexical Aim:
Lexis in context: Students focus on phrasal verbs such as: to break up, to hit it off with someone, to flirt with someone, to go out with someone.
Interaction Patterns:
Pair work Group work
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Answers:
Vocabulary
Sample Sentence
To break up with someone
To end a relationship
To flirt with someone
To show your interest in a romantic or sexual way
To chat someone up
To talk to someone in a romantic way
To fall for someone To discover strong feelings of romance for someone
To make a move on someone
To make a physical advance, e.g. to kiss someone
To hit it off with someone
To be naturally friendly or well-matched
To ask someone out
To ask someone to go on a date
To go out with someone
To start a relationship
Images: In pairs or small groups, students work together to discuss each of the images and write a story based on the 12 images. Encourage the use of the phrasal verbs from the previous task. Afterwards, each group retells their story to the class. You could also create a jigsaw task and ask a student from each group to join another group to increase the opportunity for speaking interaction. (All the ‘As’ in this group, all the ‘Bs’ in this group etc)
Watch the short film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8xRmJUf9q4 Play the animated short film. Ask students to take note of the story and report back to their group at the end. How does their story compare to the story in the animation?
Extension Task:
Ask students to write their own love story using some of the phrasal verbs from earlier. If they are creative, they could also sketch a storyboard!