Now that students have examined the structure of the postcard, the teacher asks them that they to imagine that they too are holiday. they must decide where. She tells them that they, too, must sent a postcard to an English-speaking friend. Like the example postcard, they should say where they are, what they do every day, what they're doing tomorrow/next week etc., and they should sign off in formally.
When the students have completed the task, the teacher can collect the postcards and correct them later (see below page 84) or the students can read them out, or they can show their cards to other people.
This postcard activity is an example of 'parallel writing' - where studens stick closely to a model they have been given,and where the model guides their own efforts. It is especially useful for the kind of formulaic writing represented by postcards, certain kind of letters, annoouncements and invitation, for example