Happy Valentine's Day!

1.  Typing lessons or whatever you want.

2.  A video about strange things people do on Valentine's Day. (Warning: the first 20 seconds is an advertisement, and I'm not sure that the video will work on Internet explorer. You may have to switch to Firefox.)

http://www.newslook.com/videos/290457-weird-and-wonderful-valentine-celebrations?autoplay=true

Does a kissing contest sound like fun to you?

Do you know what "speed dating" is?
What is an "ex"?
What does it mean to "defy convention"?

3.  Music and vocabulary

Here is some vocabulary for today's song:

sorrow

wise

carry on

lean on

swallow your pride

borrow

need a hand

load

bear (as a verb)

share

If you're not sure what these words mean, ask some other students. You can also try an online dictionary or Google translate (there is a link up in the top right corner of this page).

The song is "Lean on Me".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyOyksOMaEw

You can find many other versions on YouTube.

Here are the lyrics:

https://docs.google.com/a/mail.ccsf.edu/document/d/1mTJA_zQsFuHJ2aRwTpJiGgNDCoVycBW8y5KiQiDYg14/edit?hl=en_GB#

If you want to save the lyrics, you can download them onto your USB drive.

4.  Excel Project

We will make a graph showing which countries the students in the class are from.

5.  Side-by-side or whatever you want.