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Postcards: A Fun ESL Writing Activity

If you’re looking for a fun writing activity for beginners to advanced, kids to adults, then you’ll want to check out postcards. If you have old postcards laying around or can find a large package for cheap, then consider trying it out. Of course, it’s a natural fit the the travel and holiday unit that you can find in many ESL textbooks.

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Postcard English writing activity

Postcards: A Fun ESL Writing Activity

Skills: Writing/reading
Time: 15+ minutes
Level: Beginner-advanced
Materials Required: Postcards

If you can get your hands on some cheap postcards or have some laying around your house or teacher’s office, try out this simple ESL writing activity. It may just be the novelty factor, but students seem to love it. This activity is ideal for working on common greetings, the past tense (more ideas here: ESL past tense activities), using descriptive words, as well as using synonyms to avoid repetition.

Distribute the postcards to the students. You can do one per student, or put the students into pairs. They have to look at the picture on the front of the postcard and imagine that they went on this vacation. Then, they can write about their trip to a friend or family member. Students can include things like travel and transportation, foods, things they saw, etc.

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Next, the students trade postcards with another student or group. After reading them, they can write a response back of at least a few sentences. Finally, you may want to display them around the class as they’re colorful and fun and other students may enjoy reading them!

Procedure for this Postcards English Writing Activity:

1. Give each student or pair a postcard. They look at the picture and imagine what they did on that vacation, and then pretend that they’re writing to a friend or family member.
2. Exchange postcards and another student or group has to write a response to what they read.
3. Display the postcards around your classroom (optional).

Did you like this Postcard English Writing Activity?

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Have your Say about Postcards, a Simple ESL Writing Activity

What do you think about your students writing postcards in English as a fun activity? Is it a winner or do you have another activity that you’d like to recommend to us for ESL writing? Leave a comment below and let us know what you think. We’d love to hear from you.

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Jackie Bolen has been teaching English for more than 15 years to students in South Korea and Canada. She's taught all ages, levels and kinds of TEFL classes. She holds an MA degree, along with the Celta and Delta English teaching certifications.

Jackie is the author of more than 60 books for English teachers and English learners, including Business English Vocabulary Builder and 39 No-Prep/Low-Prep ESL Speaking Activities for Teenagers and Adults. She loves to share her ESL games, activities, teaching tips, and more with other teachers throughout the world.

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