AAN KLAS 8B DOOR NATHALIE FRENCH PERIODE TAAL:ENGELS

ST VALENTINE’S DAY In the third century there lived a Roman priest named Valentine. The Emperor at that time, Claudius ll, banned (=verbieden) marriages because he believed unmarried men were better soldiers!?! Valentine did not accept this law and married couples in secret. When Claudius found out, he sentenced Valentine to death.

ST. VALENTINE’S DAY While he was in prison, he fell in love with the jailer’s daughter and just before he was put to death, on 14th Febraury, he wrote a final message to her and signed it From your Valentine. Not long after his death, Valentine was made a saint.

ST VALENTINE’S DAY The story of Valentine spread and it soon became tradition to send a card to the person you secretly admired. The cards were always signed From your Valentine. In the 19th century, the first commercial mass- produced cards appeared.

ST VALENTINE’S DAY Today we send over a billion Valentine cards each year. Seventy percent of them are sent by women.

VALENTINE CINQUAIN POEM Line 1: write a noun Line 2: write two adjectives describing the noun in Line 1 Line 3: Write three words ending with –ing (action words) that descrive what the noun in Line 1 might do Line 4: Write a phrase describing the noun in Line 1 Line 5: Write a synonym of the word in Line 1

EXAMPLE Neil, Humourous, solid Loving, caring, challenging The rock in my life Soulmate

Now I would like you to write one