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Concerning Postcard exchange
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yogiba61
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Concerning Postcard exchange
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I �ve just started the postcard exchange. My students didn �t know how to write a postcard. Can you imagine? They didn �t know where to write the address and the didn �t know where to put the stamp!!! They asked me: Why do we have to write postcards? Why don �t we write an e-mail? I told him how nice it was to recieve a postcard from a different country.... They weren �t really convinced. It �s a pity. That �s what we have. New technoligies are great but I sometimes miss very simple things like a postcard. A big hug for everybody. |
7 Apr 2009
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gilorit
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Hi
What do you think about sending postcards to students in another country???
I started teaching about postcards and we practice writing them - It will be nice and authentic if we send real ones .I am talking about 7 graders (12-13 years old)
Orit |
7 Apr 2009
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mariannina
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Hello, my strudents are very young (6- 10 years old) but receiving a postcard is always a nice thing. Why don �t we exchange our addresses? |
7 Apr 2009
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lillizen
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Oh, it really is a shame that kids can �t understand the pleasure of getting a letter or postcard. But your idea of making them write and exchange postcards is great!
I myself didn �t write much when I was a kid, but I sent and received one or another letter every now and then. And it was great to get a letter. It would make my day. ^.^
One of these days, I was talking to a cousin of mine, who is about my age, in the thirties, and he told me he still kept a letter I wrote to him about.... 20 years ago! =O Was I surprised! And glad. =) He didn �t have it with him then, but I am curious to see it, and to see my handwriting, and ideas! omg... hehe
Anyways, coming back to the topic, I give tutoring classes only, and I have individual students, that means they are not many and they are mostly young adults. If anyone is interested in exchanging postcards/emails/letters, please, let me know.
Lilli. ^.^
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7 Apr 2009
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johanne23232
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I �ve been doing postcard and postal mail letter exchanges between my students and others from Japan, Canada and a Native American reserve in the U.S. Although at first my students also said "Why not email???" in the end they simply loved it. I too, discovered that they had never written a real postcard or a real letter in their lives! They also had no idea where to put the date, etc, or how to sign off. I �ve never seen them as motivated to write , nor as excited when the envelopes arrived.
We exchanged photos, and many of the kids kept on writing even after the school year. I recommend it with all my heart .
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7 Apr 2009
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gilorit
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If anyone is willing to try exchanging postcards with my students (7 th grade), please send me a private message and we will talk about it.
Orit ;-) |
7 Apr 2009
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