A postcard
Read the postcard you’ve got from your English pen friend and write back.
Your friend Ann White lives in Oxford at 2 Victoria Street.
Her postcode is OX 2 006.
Write 25 – 40 words.
Remember to write the address in the correct order.
N.N.
10 Sadovaya Str.
St. Petersburg, 423614
Russia
Dear N,
I’m happy you can come to stay with us in summer. Please, let me know when you are going to come and what you would like to do.
Love,
Ann
1. The address begins with Dear, to which the name is added.
2. The entire appeal is written not in the middle, but on the left side without indenting the red line.
3. Don’t forget to put a comma (not an exclamation point) after the address.
4. Explain (remind) why you are writing this card.
5. Answer the questions Anne asked you in her postcard: when are you planning to come and what would you like to see.
6. At the end of the card, don’t forget to write the final word Love on a separate line.
7. Don't forget to put a comma after Love ,
8. On a separate line after the final phrase, sign the card - write your name.
9. Don't forget to use abbreviated forms: I " d like , I " m going
The address where and to whom you are sending the postcard is written in this order:
1st line - First and last name of the recipient
2nd line - House number, Street name
3rd line – City, Postal code
4th line - Country
Dear Ann, (1,2,3)
I feel very excited that I’ll stay with you in summer. (4) I"m going to come in August for two weeks. I’d like to visit your school, meet your friends and go shopping for gifts. (5)
Love, (6, 7)
Katya (8)
(39 words)
Ann White
2 Victoria St.
Oxford OX 2 006
England
United Kingdom
I'm glad that you are spending a good time in …(that you have V 3)
Hope to V (you'll V)
I’m spending a wonderful time in …
New Year soon. I congratulate you with this holiday! Happy New Year (Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day)! May all your dreams come true!
Merry Christmas!
(I wish you) good luck!
Best wishes for a happy Easter (New Year, …)!
Happy birthday to you! Many happy returns of the day!
Have a nice holiday!
Have a good time!
Have a nice trip!
Warm wishes for happiness now and throughout the coming year!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
As for...,heis …
Task No. 1
Read the postcard you’ve got from your English pen friend and write back.
Your friend Olga Brown lives in London at 5 Greenhill Street.
Her postcode is WE 4 018.
Write 25 – 40 words.
Remember to write the address in the correct order.
Hi, N,
Here we"re in PARADISE! It has been a FANTASTIC holiday in Italy!It"s been very beautiful and relaxing for our family. Well. How is your brother? Has he entered the institute?
Love,
Olga
How great it is to be able to give joy! Sometimes, expensive gifts are not needed, but a kind word, attention, and support are important. On any holiday or every day, you can please your loved ones, friends, colleagues and teachers with pleasant phrases, small cards, and compliments. I wonder what congratulations sound like in English?
Pleasant words that warm the soul and give hope, and sometimes add strength, can be written or spoken in different forms. For example, greeting cards in English look great with both poetic elements and prose. After all, the meaning is important. The same goes for compliments. Want to be nice and polite while improving your English? Continue reading our article.
What to write in greeting cards in English?
For any holiday: birthday, Valentine's Day, Christmas or New Year, it is necessary to select a special greeting. If you give a card or words not on a holiday, but as a sign of attention, then here you can also highlight some groups: about love, about happiness, about hope, about friendship. Flash cards have now become very popular - this is an electronic version that can be sent in a minute to a mailbox or on social networks. For example, sites offer a wide selection of free congratulations and animations for any occasion.
- http://www.egreetings.com
- http://www.greetingcards.com
- http://www.123greetings.com
- http://pozdravleniya.biz/
- http://pozdravlenie.biz
Now we will look at how to make your own wishes in English correctly. Perhaps some phrases will be useful to you.
Birthday greetings
Many happy returns of the day! - Long and happy years of life!
Happy anniversary! - Happy anniversary!
Please accept my congratulations (on / upon) - Please accept my congratulations on...
I congratulate you on - I congratulate you on...
Be healthy and wealthy - Health and well-being
All the best - All the best
Even though we are miles away, it is good to know that you are always there! Happy Birthday! — Despite the fact that you are thousands of kilometers away, it’s nice to know that you are somewhere. Happy birthday.
From the bottom of my heart - From the bottom of my heart
I do hope all your dreams will come true - May all your wishes come true!
Dear Mary,
Happy Birthday, my friend!
Many happy returns of the day! I wish you to be healthy and wealthy, to have a lot of success and good luck in your every day life.
All the best,
Your friend,
Ann
How to say nice words correctly?
For example, you can use one of these phrases at least every day. It will be nice and pleasant.
You are so beautiful today - You are so beautiful today!
You have wonderful taste in clothes - You have excellent taste!
What a charming girl you are! - How charming you are!
Your look is pretty good today - You look great today.
That’s a nice color on you - You have a very nice color of clothes today.
The meat was especially tasty - And the meat was especially tasty
Your children are so nice and clever - You have such cute and smart kids.
It needsn’t to be a man to see just how marvelous you are - You don’t need to be a man to understand how amazing you are.
Do angels also use underground? - Do angels really take the subway?
You’ve got devilishly beautiful eyes - Your eyes are devilishly beautiful.
A lot of girls would like to be in your shoes - Many girls would like to be in your place.
Women should be furious seeing your beauty - Women must be furious seeing your beauty.
You don’t stop surprising me with your beauty - You never cease to surprise me with your beauty
You’re the only girl who can intoxicate every man - You’re the only girl who can intoxicate any man.
You are the most appetizing girl I have ever seen - You are the most appetizing girl I have ever seen.
You lips are better than the tastiest sweet - Your lips are better than the most delicious candy.
You dazzle me - You blind me.
Thank you for your compliment - Thank you for the compliment.
Much obliged. - I am very obliged.
I'm very much obliged to you. - I am very obliged to you.
Of course, everyone will be pleased to hear something good about themselves, see it on a note or in a postcard. You can use kind words to all your friends who know or want to know English. They will be pleased. The main thing is to be relevant and know what you are saying. Therefore, we invite you to look into compliments in English with translation.
When designing postcards in English, approach this issue creatively. Don’t be lazy, choose something that highlights the best aspects of the person to whom the pleasant words are addressed. Don't forget to subscribe at the end. Among the gray everyday life and fast rhythm, we do not notice the joy of life. Give smiles, cards, compliments and congratulations.
We all love holidays ( holidays)! Some people prefer birthdays ( birthday celebrations) and new year ( New Year), someone is happy when Valentine's Day comes ( St. Valentine's Day), well, and still others are simply delighted with purely family celebrations, for example, the anniversary of a certain event ( anniversary). Whatever type of celebrant you are, you are unlikely to dispute the fact that you are pleased to receive gifts ( presents) and congratulations ( congratulations / greetings). Congratulations can be different: verbal (in the form of speeches and toasts), presented in written or electronic form (letter, postcard).
It has not been determined exactly when the world’s first postcard appeared ( card / greeting card). They also haven’t decided who its creator is. Various nations take credit for this achievement. We will not figure out which of them is right. Let us just note that the official postcard was recognized in 1874 at the Universal Postal Congress in Bern, and the first Russian copies were issued by the community of St. Eugenia in 1898. However, today printed postcards are gradually losing their popularity, as they have a good competitor - virtual postcards.
Where can I find postcards in English?
A fairly popular way of congratulations is to send simple, animated and flash cards to the congratulator. Since we are studying English, we will only be interested in postcards in English. The demand for them is simply huge. And if there is demand, there is supply. Indeed, there are quite a lot of resources that present postcards in English. We will mention only a few of them.
- - free flash cards in English for all occasions. Sending takes only a minute.
- - a fairly large selection of postcards in English, divided into categories.
- – in addition to beautiful postcards in English, the site presents a calendar of holidays for the year.
- is one of the most popular resources dedicated to postcards in English. More than 2 billion postcards have already been sent from it. And their collection consists of 1000 postcards at the moment.
- , are wonderful resources with wonderful postcards in English.
On many postcards in English you can write your own ( wishes) to the person for whom it is intended. You can compose your own text, or you can use the Internet and find beautiful words in English that will express your feelings. For example, here are some good ones
Postcard– what could be more beautiful than a small card signed with your own hand? A unique design, monograms and magic words can give true pleasure to those who value real feelings.
Today you won’t surprise anyone with an electronic card, but the paper version will become the most memorable gift. Still don't know how to please your loved ones?
What should I write to you, my friend...What am I talking about? And I’m talking about what to write in a postcard, how to start and how to end, and should you generally adhere to any writing rules?
Dear Tom,
Next, you should indicate why you decided to write. If you are responding to a postcard you have already received, answer the questions, if there were any. Write your own text, after which write the final phrase on a separate line
Best wishes,
(your name)
Or Love, + name
And below is the address to which the postcard should be delivered in the following order:
first and last name of the addressee;
house number, street name;
city, postal code;
country.
History of the postcard
Delving deeper into history, we note that there are several versions of the appearance of the first postcard. It is known that the first of them was created by the English artist Dobson in 1795. A little later, Henry Cole asked his friend John Gersley to help depict something New Year's, as a result of which a New Year's card with a winter landscape was born. Postcards began to gain popularity and were sold with notepaper.
The boom in postcard printing was gaining momentum in Europe, and these small cards migrated to Russia in the second half of the 19th century. It was then that famous artists began to make magnificent drawings, which became real works of art and were protected like the apple of the eye ( cherish as the apple of one's eye). But the word “postcard” itself comes from “open letter”. It is also known that the first postcards were called “congratulations”. Here is an old word in the Russian language that will still find a place in speech today.
Quite a price for a small card
If you have been to a flea market at least once, you have probably seen not only all sorts of antique beads, cameras, stones, wooden toys, but also postcards. By the way, one such card, issued in England in 1843, was sold for 22,000 pounds sterling. There are only 10 such examples left, and who knows how much it might sell for in 50 years.
When postcards had already become fashionable, they began to make them themselves, using maximum imagination. Thus, dried plants, tree branches, fabrics, beads and even boric acid were used to depict snow. Today, few people make postcards, although it is quite an exciting business. By putting your soul into a small work of art, you are giving a piece of yourself and your love.
Postcrossing: exchanging postcards around the world
It’s no secret that with the advent of smartphones, you can create a postcard online in a second and immediately send it to the recipient, so don’t waste time making and sending a little joy to your friends and loved ones. Modernity is quite changeable: just yesterday we all read electronic books, and today we again buy paper ones, because it is fashionable to read a real book, which, according to Ray Bradbury, is “bread for the hungry.”
The same thing happens with postcards. At the peak of popularity "postcrossing", which is an exchange of cards between residents of different countries. And this is truly a unique event that each of you can join. Agree, it’s quite nice to receive news from Japan, Mexico or the sunny Dominican Republic. You can join this movement here
Below you can find examples of postcards in English. We hope that the samples presented will help you in writing your own cards.
Example of a postcard in English No. 1
Postcard from a trip to Spain
Billy
We're in Spain and it's hot here. We arrived in Barcelona 2 days ago. Then we traveled to Madrit and stayed in a hotel. The food isn’t as good as in Poland, but it’s ok. We are having much fun here.
See you soon,
Sony
Example of a postcard in English No. 2
Postcard from vacation in Italy
How are you?
I’m on holiday in Italy with two of two sisters. The weather’s wonderful so we’re spending the time swimming and sunbathing.
Yesterday we went on a fantastic trip to Rome. It was a bit hot, but we enjoyed it. I loved the beautiful architecture of the city and its atmosphere.
Hope you're having a great time in the mountains.
Wish you were here.
Love,
Dorota
Example of a postcard in English No. 3
Postcard from holidays in Brazil
Hi Josh,
I'm on holiday in Brazil. I'm having a
great time. The weather is hot
and the sun's shining. At the moment
I’m staying on the beach, and read ing
a magazine. We arrived in Brazil yesterday
morning. The hotel is cool, and the
food is brilliant! I am coming back in a week.
Example of a postcard in English No. 4
Postcard from holidays in Africa
Hi Ada,
I’m having a great time in Africa.
I'm in a hotel now.
I traveled here by plane.
I’m traveling with my family and we’re staying here for two weeks.
We're going to the beach next.
The weather is wonderful. It's sunny and hot.
I hope you're having a great time too.
See you soon.
Example of a postcard in English No. 5
Postcard from the weekend in Russia
Hi Sonia!
I am on holiday in Russia with my family. We have stayed in a hotel for two days. The area is amazing and there is some beautiful architecture in here. We are spending time taking photos and eating in traditional Russian restaurants. Yesterday we visited the Red Square. I loved the atmosphere of this city and the beautiful monuments.
See you soon.
Example of a postcard in English No. 6
Postcard from a trip to France
Hi Lisa and Mathew
I’m on holiday in France and I’m having a great time. I have been to Paris for a week now. I’m going shopping and I’m eating in traditional French restaurants. Yesterday I saw the Eiffel Tower and took a lot of photos. I'm leaving Paris tomorrow.
Kisses, XYZ
Example of a postcard in English No. 7
Postcard from a trip to London
Hi Ola!
I’m writing to you from London. I stayed in a big, five-star hotel 2 days ago. Yesterday, I took a ride in the London Eye. It's amazing! It was a nice day, because it was sunny and cool.
Tomorrow, I’m visiting the Tower Bridge. I really want to see it. The food isn’t as good as in Poland, but it’s OK.
I'm having a good time here. I wish you were here.
Give my love to your parents.
See you soon,
Vicki
Example of a postcard in English No. 8
Postcard from the weekend in Poland
Hi Amy!
I’m on holiday in Poland. I'm having a great time. Last week I was in Warsaw. Tommorow I am visiting my friend. The weather is rainy. Every day I go to the cinema or go shopping. I'm back in three days.
See you soon,
Lucas
Example of a postcard in English No. 9
Postcard from a weekend in Greece
Hi Jared
I’m on holiday in Greece and I’m having a great time. I was to Athenes two days ago, and tomorrow I’m going to Crete Island. The weather is beautiful, we swim every day in warm, clean water, and take sunbaths. I'm back in 2 weeks.
kisses,
Jessica
Example of a postcard in English No. 10
Postcard from the sea
Dear Tom,
How are you?
I'm fine. I'm at the seaside with my friends.
We go to the beach, the city center and to the restaurant every day.
We are having a great time!
The weather is sunny, hot and really beautiful.
Tell me about your holiday.
Write back soon!
Take care,
XYZ
Example of postcard in English No. 11
Postcard from a tropical vacation
Hi Kaja!
I’m on holiday on the tropical island with my family. We’re staying in a hotel with a swimming pool. Today it is hot here. I'm going to sunbathe soon. Yesterday I went shopping. It's great. I'm back in a month.
See you,
Majka 🙂
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