Intermediate 2
Dr. Sandra Nagy
Valentine’s Day Valentine’s day is an important day. “ Valentine’s Day is very important for English speaking people” Dr. Sandra said. Especially on this day, a lot of money was spent in valentines gift. The old story explains how Valentine’s Day came from a priest who was working in the church and he was marrying people. Suddenly a memo came from the Emperor Claudius that said “solders may not get married any more and if any one married a solder or helped them, he or she’ll would take the necessary action and would send him or her to the jail. Valentine was sent to the jail, because he was marring solders secretly. For several reason every body loves Valentine’s Day and his history and today they celebrate on this day. Valentine’s Day came from an old story. It talks about a man, whose name was Valentine. He was working in the church for long time and Valentine was marrying people, so he was lovely person. Suddenly the Emperor Claudius decided that solders couldn’t get married at all. The Emperor said that, because he thought that the solders couldn’t fight if they were thinking of family. Also, he was torturing lady who gets married from solder until they become executed. The solders were tired. They didn’t know what to do, so they decided to go to the church where Valentine worked. They saw Valentine and they ran to him and told him the Emperor’s story and asked him to help. Then Valentine was in a strong situation and he must decide to either help people or the Emperor, so he chose love and agreed to marry people in secret. It didn’t take long and the Emperor Claudius discovered what was happening and knew that Valentine wasn’t following his rules, so he asked his guard to bring Valentine. The Emperor Claudius was angry and very upset because Valentine had broken his rules, so he said, “ send him to jail for ever”. It was bad news. The solders were shocked. Because of them the Emperor Claudius sent