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Valentine’s Day
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What is Valentine’s Day?Slide3
What is Valentine’s Day?Valentine's Day, or St Valentine's Day, is celebrated every year on 14th February. Slide4
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. Slide5
What is Valentine’s Day?And traditionally,on Valentine's Day in a leap year every four years - women can propose marriageto their partner!Slide6
Why is it called Valentine's Day?Slide7
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. Slide8
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. Slide9
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 broke the rules
and secretly arranged
marriages.Slide10
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. Slide11
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”.Slide12
When did card sending start?Slide13
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. Slide14
When did card sending start?He was captured at the Battle of Agincourt and was imprisoned in the Tower of London to await execution.Slide15
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. Slide16
When did card sending start?Printed cards soon replaced these, making it easier for people to say "I love you" secretly.Slide17
How did it become a celebration?Slide18
How did it become a celebration?Valentine's Day is a very old tradition, thought to have originated from a pagan fertility festival. Slide19
How did it become a celebration?The Romans had a festival called Lupercalia in the middle of February, officially the start of their springtime. Slide20
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! Slide21
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. Slide22
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.Slide23
How do people celebrate now?Slide24
How do people celebrate now?Nowadays, Valentine's Day is massive, with celebrations of love worldwide from India to Iceland. Slide25
How do people celebrate now?But it's not just about sending messages to people you love… … you can also just say you care! Slide26
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:
seven million red roses are sent
£22 million spent on flowers
12 million cards are sent …Slide27
How do people celebrate now?In 2001, text messaging exploded, with around 30 million WUBMV messages sent! WUBMV = Will yoU Be My Valentine Slide28
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!Slide29
How do people celebrate now?So, have a happy Valentine's Day but remember: don't feel left out if you don't get a card - it's the giving that counts!Slide30
Miss Vee wishes you aHappy Valentine’s DaySlide31
CreditsText and pictures:BBC onlinePPT Template:www.presentationhelper.co.ukMusic:Just Like Heaven, by The Cureby Miss Vee 2009