A selection of English ESL postcard printables

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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how to accuse somebody of something in English

how to apologize, say sorry, forgive and express regret in English

how to ask for information and make inquiries in English

how to ask for something, make requests in English

how to blame somebody for something in English

how to defend yourself from criticism in English

how to deny or admit something in English

how to describe things or people in English

how to emphasize important things in English

how to encourage or discourage people in English

how to evaluate people or progress in English

how to express agreement /disagreement in English

how to express approval and disapproval  in English

how to express cause and effect in English

how to express interest in something in English

how to express likelihood, probability in English

how to express likes and dislikes in English

how to express sequence and chronology in English

how to express shock and disbelief in English

how to express sympathy and condolences in English

how to give permission, authorization in English

how to inform somebody about some news in English

how to interpret what was said in English

how to keep a conversation going in English

how to make guesses about something in English

how to make, accept and refuse offers in English

how to order or make a booking in English

how to persuade, convince people in English

how to praise people and express appreciation in English

how to reassure somebody of something in English

how to refuse and object to something in English

how to remind people of something in English

how to rephrase, paraphrase what was said in English

how to say thank you, express gratitude in English

Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

Get here and you are ready to study in English at university

A great multi-level exercise. The outcome of all versions should be the same -correcting the mistakes in the postcard. But altogether there are three versions of the same postcard with instructions suited for less and more advanced Ss within the same group. Weaker Ss can get the postcard A-where the specific kinds of mistakes are colourfully highlighted; for stronger Ss the mistakes are only underlined and they should decide what kind of mistake it is, version C, the most challenging, is for the best Ss in your group - they find the mistakes for themselves and correct them.  This way all Ss get engaged in the same exercise and they won't get bored! Tricky, isn’t it?  ;) Good luck. 

It’s difficult to motivate Ss if you have mixed-ability groups. Good luck. I think this activity should do the job. Happy teaching to all of you ;) 

The key is included.

Holiday Postcard 44 a, b, c

Vocabulary and exercises on how to write a postcard. Using the preterite / past simple tense. Talking about holidays in London.

How to write a postcard (1)

HOW TO WRITE A VACATION POSTCARD

You can help your students to write a postcard, especially when you organise a trip to England for instance with them. The students in the secondary school often do not know how to write a simple postcard. 

writing a postcard methodology and help

 Find the right question with either the Present Perfect Simple or the Past Simple for each sentence to remove the ink blotches and uncover the hidden answers. You will find the answers on islcollective in a POWERPOINT that bears the same title.

POSTCARD: Present Perfect Simple vs Past Simple

Read the postcard below. Then ask from your students to write one too! You can ask them to cut a paper and design a postcard. Draw their own stamps or even print them. Mention a winter destination. Ask them to mention Christmas activities and vocabulary too.

Read and Then Write A Christmas Postcard!

A two page worksheet. The first details the questions to be answered in the postcard and provides a sample. The second page has a similar- but blank- postcard and lots of summer clip art. Part of the A2 My Writings.



There are 12 compositions in all. Bind in a spiral or use individually.



Covers found here:



https://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/creative_writing_my_writings_cover_a2_level/sports-creative-writing/27826



https://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/creative_writing_my_writings_cover_a2_level/sports-creative-writing/27864

Creative Writing: A Holiday Postcard #2 A2 Level

Reading comprehension. General vocabulary. Speaking exercises. Answering questions. Phrase matching. Putting words in the right order. Vocabulary practice. Exercise idea: writing a postcard to somebody.

A POSTCARD from the TITANIC: Reading Comprehension Worksheet

This is a lesson about teaching students a postcard form



Its functional English usage.

The lesson comes with the powerpoint and has worksheets too. I used a worksheet from another site to do irregular verb for past tense language structure.



Thank you.

Writing Prompt - Postcard to a Classmate with Sample

Meet five couples. The boys sent Valentine cards to their lovers. From this game you can find out the couples’ names, where they met and the picture on the card. Read the clues and solve the puzzle. :) Have fun with this logic game. Hugs, Zsuzsapszi

If you don’t know how to solve this kind of game, you can look at the Einstein riddle on the net or have a look at my 33rd logic game, called Best friends where I wrote down the solution step by step.

Logic game (67th) - Postcards for Valentine's Day - with key

Picture description of vintage Xmas postcards (1930s-1950s). Describing the actions and objects seen on the cards using the Christmas vocabulary list from the first page. Discussing how these postcards reflect their socio-economic background.

VINTAGE CHRISTMAS POSTCARDS Pt. 2- Picture description with Xmas vocabulary list

Picture description of vintage Xmas postcards (1840s-1920s). Describing the actions and objects seen on the cards using the Christmas vocabulary list from the first page. Discussing how these postcards reflect their socio-economic background.

127 Postcard English ESL worksheets pdf & doc