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Valentine’s Day is upon us and many teachers will teach a lesson about “love”. However, it’s a topic that you can teach at any time of the year, always valuable and really can get students thinking deeply about their place in the world.
Here are a couple of simple ideas for language teachers. Many more “lovely” ideas for members on our Lesson Library (we have over 180,000 resources, not to mention all else). Also see this nice list of “love” lessons.
1. Listening skills. 7 Billion Others.
I love this anthropological project – 7 Billion Others. Such great language material, interviews with people around the world about simple topics of concern to all peoples.
I’ve edited and compiled a video with all the English responses about “love”. Teachers can use them in class and get students to take notes, discuss their ideas. Also, can they guess the accent? Many different ones.
2. Grammar poems.
So easy to do. Just put up the template on the board or an overhead. Write a poem together as a class, soliciting responses from students and writing them down. Once finished, recite your class poem! Next, students can write their own and present to the class. Get some templates here.
Love Video Lessons
We have so many “love”ly videos on ELT Buzz Video Lessons. Sign up for our weekly newsletter of new lessons. So many great videos in this category: George and Rosemary, L.O.V.E. Nat King Cole, Friday, I’m in Love and more … Check them all out.
Discussion. It’s a much wider and more complex topic than you think - LOVE. Here is a nice discussion starter set of questions for the topic.
Card Making. Why not have students make each other Valentine’s Day cards with a nice English message? Just fold an A4 sheet and start drawing and designing.
I Wanna Be Yours. This classic poem is a big hit for any lesson about love. Get our teaching materials for this - here.
"Love"ly Ideas