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Episode Synopsis
Happy Valentine's Day!! I hope you're having a lovely day, whether you have someone special, or you bought yourself chocolate!
Today I wanted to talk a little bit about the history of Valentine's Day and then look at how we celebrate it in modern times.
It might give you some insight and ideas if you have an English romantic partner.
We'll find out a little more about where the English (does anywhere else do this?) tradition of starting ALL (it seems like!) Valentine's poems with 'Roses are red, violets are blue' came from; who made Valentine's Day (traditionally a religious holiday) romantic and why they had to save a bridge in Paris from lovers!
Tomorrow, we're going even more romantic with the ultimate love letter!
See you then!
Vocabulary
poetic tradition - phrase that means a poetic phrase, word or tradition that has been repeated in many different ways by different people over time
reverberates - to have continuous and serious effects, to echo
everyone gets in on the act - idiom - everyone joins in with something
nursery rhyme - a phrase describing the songs sung to children
played on that phrase - phrasal verb - if we play on something then we use it as a base and make something of our own
satirical - a kind of humour which tries to poke fun, or make comedic real life and real situations
taunting - to make someone feel bad using words, can also include bullying, provoke or challenge someone
the run up to - before the start of something
lame - not cool, boring, not interesting
in keeping with that - to match, to be similar, to fit together with other people or things, to have a similar style.
Today I wanted to talk a little bit about the history of Valentine's Day and then look at how we celebrate it in modern times.
It might give you some insight and ideas if you have an English romantic partner.
We'll find out a little more about where the English (does anywhere else do this?) tradition of starting ALL (it seems like!) Valentine's poems with 'Roses are red, violets are blue' came from; who made Valentine's Day (traditionally a religious holiday) romantic and why they had to save a bridge in Paris from lovers!
Tomorrow, we're going even more romantic with the ultimate love letter!
See you then!
Vocabulary
poetic tradition - phrase that means a poetic phrase, word or tradition that has been repeated in many different ways by different people over time
reverberates - to have continuous and serious effects, to echo
everyone gets in on the act - idiom - everyone joins in with something
nursery rhyme - a phrase describing the songs sung to children
played on that phrase - phrasal verb - if we play on something then we use it as a base and make something of our own
satirical - a kind of humour which tries to poke fun, or make comedic real life and real situations
taunting - to make someone feel bad using words, can also include bullying, provoke or challenge someone
the run up to - before the start of something
lame - not cool, boring, not interesting
in keeping with that - to match, to be similar, to fit together with other people or things, to have a similar style.
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