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Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day. 2009. What is Valentine’s Day?. What is Valentine’s Day?. Valentine's Day, or St Valentine's Day, is celebrated every year on 14 th February. What is Valentine’s Day?.

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Valentine’s Day

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  1. Valentine’s Day 2009

  2. What is Valentine’s Day?

  3. What is Valentine’s Day? Valentine's Day, or St Valentine's Day, is celebrated every year on 14th February.

  4. What is Valentine’s Day? It's the day when people show their affection for another person (or people!) by sending anonymous cards, flowers or chocolates with messages of love.

  5. What is Valentine’s Day? • And traditionally, • on Valentine's Day in a leap year • every four years - • women can • propose marriage • to their partner!

  6. Why is it called Valentine's Day?

  7. Why is it called Valentine's Day? The day gets its name from a famous saint, but there are several stories of who he was.

  8. Why is it called Valentine's Day? The most popular belief about St Valentine is that he was a priest from Rome in the third century AD.

  9. Why is it called Valentine's Day? Emperor Claudius II had banned marriage because he thought married men were bad soldiers. Valentine thought this was unfair, so he broketherulesand secretly arrangedmarriages.

  10. Why is it called Valentine's Day? When Claudius found out, Valentine was sentenced to death and thrown in jail. There, he fell in love with the jailor's blind daughter.

  11. Why is it called Valentine's Day? The story says his love and belief in God cured her blindness, and when he was taken to be killed on 14th February he sent her a love letter signed "from your Valentine”.

  12. When did card sending start?

  13. When did card sending start? The first Valentine message (apart from the one St Valentine wrote himself!) is thought to be a poem from Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife in 1415.

  14. When did card sending start? He was captured at the Battle of Agincourt and was imprisoned in the Tower of London to await execution.

  15. When did card sending start? But Valentine's Day didn't become popular in the UK until the 17th Century. By the 18th Century it was traditional for people to swap handwritten messages of affection.

  16. When did card sending start? Printed cards soon replaced these, making it easier for people to say "I love you" secretly.

  17. How did it become a celebration?

  18. How did it become a celebration? Valentine's Day is a very old tradition, thought to have originated from a pagan fertility festival.

  19. How did it become a celebration? The Romans had a festival called Lupercalia in the middle of February, officially the start of their springtime.

  20. How did it become a celebration? As part of the celebrations, boys drew names of girls from a box. They'd be boyfriend and girlfriend during the festival and sometimes they would even get married!

  21. How did it become a celebration? The Christian church decided to turn this festival into a Christian celebration and decided to use it to remember the death of St Valentine, too.

  22. How did it become a celebration? Gradually, St Valentine's name started to be used by people to express their feelings to those they loved.

  23. How do people celebrate now?

  24. How do people celebrate now? Nowadays, Valentine's Day is massive, with celebrations of love worldwide from India to Iceland.

  25. How do people celebrate now? But it's not just about sending messages to people you love… … you can also just say you care!

  26. How do people celebrate now? In the UK, a massive amount of money is spent on what some say is the most romantic day of the year: £22 million spent on flowers seven million red roses are sent 12 million cards are sent …

  27. How do people celebrate now? In 2001, text messaging exploded, with around 30 million WUBMV messages sent! WUBMV = WillyoUBe My Valentine

  28. How do people celebrate now? • And according to research: • Half of all mobile users expect Valentine's text messages from loved ones; • One in four use text messages to ask someone out on 14th February; • One in four have sent soppy messages to the wrong person!

  29. How do people celebrate now? So, have a happy Valentine's Day but remember: don'tfeel left out if you don'tget a card - it's the giving that counts!

  30. Miss Vee wishes you a Happy Valentine’s Day

  31. Credits Text and pictures: BBC online PPT Template: www.presentationhelper.co.uk Music: Just Like Heaven, by The Cure by Miss Vee 2009

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