Here’s a fun activity to do tomorrow in class for Valentine’s Day! Valentine Code gives students practice with vowels while they crack the secret code to solve vocabulary words. (more…)
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Valentine’s Day Collection
Will you be doing Valentine’s Day activities with your young learners this week and next? Our Valentine’s Day vocabulary lesson has a variety of fun activities to do in class. Valentine’s Code gives students practice with vowels while they crack the secret code to solve vocabulary words. Valentine’s Day: Find the Objects lets students match vocabulary words to objects in a picture, which they can then color. (more…)
Valentine’s Day: Vocabulary Lesson
Please see our updated post for Feb 14, 2016: Valentine’s Day Collection.
Valentine’s Day Game for Young Learners – Practicing Gerunds
Are you looking for a fun, yet educational, game to play with your English learners on Valentine’s Day? Here’s a Valentine’s-inspired activity for practicing gerunds!
How to Play “Love, Like, Live Without, Loathe”
1) Review
Review the differences between “love” and “like” and review how to use these before a gerund:
- I like eating chocolate.
- I like eating peanut butter.
- I love mixing chocolate and peanut butter.
2) Introduce Vocabulary
Teach your students two more words and expressions: to be able to “live without” (to not need or to not like a lot), and to “loathe” (to really dislike).
- I can live without vegetables.
- I loathe broccoli. (more…)
Valentine’s Day – Capitalization, Punctuation & Spelling
Love is in the air! Valentine’s Day will be celebrated in many countries this Friday, February 14. Some schools participate in Valentine’s Day activities such as doing lessons about love/dating/marriage, wearing pink or red, or giving out valentine cards, roses, or chocolate. If you will be discussing Valentine’s Day with your young learners this week, make it educational and teach them the capitalization, punctuation, and spelling rules of this popular holiday!
Capitalization
In English, holidays always use capital letters for the holiday name and the word “Day”.
- I’m looking forward to Valentine’s Day.
When it’s clear we’re referring to the holiday, we can drop the word “Day” if we want.
- I got a ring for Valentine’s Day.
- I got a ring for Valentine’s.
But be careful! We don’t use capital letters when referring to a card, gift, or person.
- He gave me a valentine card yesterday.
- I bought a valentine present for my girlfriend.
- You will always be my valentine. (more…)
