It must be love, love, love ...

Valentine's Day is just around the corner and I am back with more 'heart' vocabulary for all you love-birds out there! Today we are going to look at compound nouns and adjectives.

To start off let's talk about heartthrobs (heart-throbs). A heartthrob is a famous man, usually an actor or a singer, who is attractive to many women. Brad Pitt is an example of a long-standing heartthrob. It appears, from what I have heard in class from my female students, that in Spain 'El Duque' is the latest heartthrob.

Perhaps you have been lucky enough to go out with a Hollywood heartthrob, but as most relationships in Hollywood last about five-minutes you may have been left broken-hearted and extrememly sad.

Dating Hollywood heartthrobs could be seen as a risky thing to do and not something for the faint-hearted to take on! ( Someone who is faint-hearted is not very brave and confident and doesn't like taking unnecessary risks.) However, on Valentine's Day it is a good idea to take a risk and tell that secret someone that you love them very much. Perhaps you could send an anonymous card to your sweetheart to let them know how much they mean to you.