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Saint Valentine’s Day
Answers
Task 1
Matching the famous couples.
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Adam Eve
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Napoleon Josephine
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John Lennon Joko
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Tarzan Jane
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Rat Buttler Scarlet O’Hara
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Caesar Cleopatra
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Tristan Isolda
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Ruslan Ludmila
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Romeo Juliet
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Orpheus Eurydice
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Don Hose Carmen
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the Beast Beauty
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Griboedov Nino Chavchavadse
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Othello Desdemona
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Carlo Ponti Sophia Loren
|  Task 3^
English proverb or saying
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Translation
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Love cannot be forced.
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Силою любить не заставишь.
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Насильно мил не будешь. Сердцу не прикажешь.
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Love in a cottage.
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Любовь в хижине.
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С милым рай и в шалаше.
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Love is blind, as well as hatred.
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Любовь, как и ненависть, слепа.
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Любовь слепа. Любовь ни зги не видит.
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Love will creep where it may not go.
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Там, где нет прямого пути, любовь ползком проберется.
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На любовь закона нет. Для любви нет преград.
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The course of true love never did run smooth.
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Путь истинной любви никогда не бывал гладким.
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Истинная любовь устлана шипами роз.
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Love laughs at locksmiths
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Любовь смеётся над цепями.
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На любовь закона нет.
| Task 2^
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Holiday
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Date
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Armenia
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Day of the Patron Saint (day of love and youth Sarkis)
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February, 11
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The USA
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World Smile Day
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October, 5
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Brazil
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"Lovers' Day", or "Boyfriends'/Girlfriends' Day"
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June ,12
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Canada
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Family Day
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the 3rd Monday of February
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Chine
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Chinese Valentine's Day or Qixi Festival
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the 17th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar
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Colombia
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Day of Love and Friendship
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the 17th of September
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The Czech Republic
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Sv. Jan Nepomucky
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May, 1
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Egypt
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Love Day
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November, 4
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Georgia
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Day of Love
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April, 15
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Great Britain
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World Kiss Day
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July, 6
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Iran
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the Sepandarmazgan or Esfandegan (an age-old traditional celebration of love, friendship and Earth)
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February, 17
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Ireland
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Leap Day or St Oswald's Day
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February, 29
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Israel
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Tu B'Av (the festival of love)
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the 15th day of the month of Av (usually late August)
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Japan,
South Korea,
Taiwan
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^ (women give chocolate to men)
White Day (men give non-chocolate candy to women)
Black Day (those who did not receive anything on the 14th of Feb or March go to a Korean restaurant to eat black noodles and "mourn" their single life)
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February, 14
March, 14
April, 14
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Korea
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Pepero Day (young couples give each other Pepero cookies)
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November, 11
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The United Nations (рус. ООН)
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International Day of Families
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May, 15
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Portugal
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Lover's Day "^ " (Day of those that are in love with each other)
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Romania
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Dragobete (the traditional holiday for lovers)
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February, 24
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Russia
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Peter and Febronia’s Day
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July, 8
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Slovenia
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the Saint Gregory's day
Saint Vincent's Day
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March, 12
February, 22
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Sweden
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All Hearts' Day “^ ”
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Wales
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St Dwynwen's Day “Dydd Santes Dwynwen”
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January, 25
| Task 5Approximate answers on the questions.
Name the date when St. Valentine’s Day is celebrated. (Valentine’s Day is celebrated on the February, 14.)
What is the ribbon on a Valentine Card? (It means you are tied up, you are my girl.)
What was Valentine? (Valentine was a Christian priest.)
St. Valentine’s Day is a holiday of … (St. Valentine’s Day is a holiday of lovers, sweethearts: wives and husbands, boys and girls, men and women.)
What is Cupid with his bow and arrow? (It is a symbol of love.)
Valentine’s cards have a shape of … (Valentine’s cards have a shape of heart or have hearts on it.)
Name the symbols of St. Valentine’s Day. (The earliest symbol was Cupid, the Roman God of love. Now a red rose is.)
Valentine fell in love with the … (Valentine was put into prison and there he fell in love with the jailer’s daughter.)
What was the name of the first English actress who began to make and sell the first Valentines in England? (Kate Greenaway in the 18th century.)
How did Valentine sign a letter to his lover? (The night his execution on February 14th he wrote his lover a farewell letter and signed it “From your Valentine”.)
What is lace on a Valentine’s Card? (It means you have caught my heart in a net.)
What do rice and ting mean on the Valentine’s Day? (Wedding)
What is to get a red mitten on Valentine’s Day? (It means that his/her girl/boy doesn’t like him/her.)
What was Valentine’s Day called? Why? (The custom originated from the popular English belief that birds chose their partners on February 14. For this reason, Valentines Day was called “the Birds' Wedding Day” in parts of Sussex.)
By whom and when was the first Valentine's Day Card given? (Tradition of exchanging Valentine's Day Cards is said to have begun as early as 1400's. Credit for the first written Valentine's Day Card is given to Charles - Duke of Orleans, who following capture at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, wrote a poem to his wife while imprisonment in the Tower of London. The greeting has been preserved by British Library.)
When did Valentine's Day Cards begin to be manufactured on a large scale? (By 18th century Valentine's Day Cards began to be manufactured on a large scale.)
Who was Esther Howland? (Esther Howland, a young woman from Massachusetts is recognized as the first regular publisher of valentines in the United States.)
When did the first handmade Valentine sell? (In 1849)
What company and when began to manufacture Valentine’s Day Cards? (In early 1900's a card company called Norcross - began to manufacture Valentine’s Day Cards.)
Who introduced the thirst Valentine’s Day Box of Chocolates? When? (The thirst Valentine’s Day Box of Chocolates was introduced by Richard Cadbury in 1868.)
Saint Valentine’s Day
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