Valentine's Day Vocabulary and Love/Leave Letters

 

Gentle Reader,

 

A part of our being with our Chinese students here in Guiyang is sharing some American culture with them.  This week, we talked a bit about how Americans celebrate Valentine's Day.  In addition, I gave students vocabualry surrounding the holiday, dividing the words into nouns, verbs, and adjectives...  as a strategy to ease learning.  After we discussed 9 new words, I asked students to use as many of the new words as they could in one of two ways:  in a love letter OR in a Dear John sort of rejection letter.  The results were astonishingly fun!  One of the groups even chose to act out their "Dear John" letter!

 

Here are two samples...

 

Dear David,

 

i couldn't forget the time we spent with each other when we fell in love.  I couldn't forget your warm embrace and caress.  Than you for giving me a beautiful memory.

 

But... distance is a very terrible thing for us.  It makes us beloved to each other, at the same time, it also can hurt us.

 

I really can't bear the pain of missing you.

 

I have to tell you the truth.  Last week, I met a beau in a bar.  He is very handsome and infatuated with me.  It's really hard to refuse, because he is so passionate and kind to me.  We try to flirt with each other the first time we met.  I do believe that we will make a romantic romance in the future. 

 

Hope you find your angel soon!

 

Bye bye!

 

Yours,

Louise

 

 

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My Beau,

 

Here is the best valentine I've ever written to my beau.  I am infatuated with you.  And I think we will have the best romance for our coming children.

 

Every night before I sleep, I want you to caress my face gently and embrace each other all night long.

 

I'll never forgethe first time I met you in the cafe.  You sat there and read a book silently.  That will be the most vivid picture in my mind forever.  You must know that was not an accident that I bumped into your table.  i just wanted to flirt with you and luckily, we attracted each other and fell in love.

 

My beau, I wish that you'll be passionate about me as well as our love forever.  I will always be a loved  woman of yours.  On of the happiest women in the world.

 

Love,

Sophia