Please see our updated post for Feb 14, 2016: Valentine’s Day Collection.

Love stories are a lot of fun when they involve people you know. This month, ask your students to interview a couple that they know. They should interview one person at a time using the same four questions (provided below). After the interview, they can practice using the simple past tense to retell the love story to their classmates. Which couple had the best love story?

1. Choose a Couple

Tell your students to choose a couple that they know. Here are some ideas: (more…)

“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
—Martin Luther King Jr.

Students love learning idioms! With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to teach love idioms to your young learners. Visuals like this poster can really help students remember idioms, which can be difficult because they don’t make literal sense. Last year, our writer Tara Benwell created this fun Love Idioms poster for us. Download the full-size PDF version by clicking on the image or link below.

Download the large-size printable Love Idioms poster PDF
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See our 2015 post here: http://blog.sproutenglish.com/love-idioms