Lesson Plan: Sharing Your Vacation - Send a Postcard!

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Cover of English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 4 featuring a skyline

This lesson plan for intermediate students is based on a fact sheet about Chicago and the idea of writing a postcard to family members during vacation. It describes a warm-up activity and several activities for writing and reading a postcard. The lesson aims to strengthen learners’ vocabulary and literacy skills using authentic materials.

Author:
Meryl Siegal

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Teachers Intermediate Reading Vocabulary Writing Integrated Skills Teacher Training
Cover of English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 4 featuring a skyline

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Cover of English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 4 featuring a skyline

English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 4

Chicago is the focus of the feature article and the basis of a lesson plan that provides practice in writing and reading postcards. This issue also includes articles on enhancing learning with mobile phone technology, VoIM-mediated cooperative tasks, and corpus-aided discovery. Additional articles d