Could we be pen friends with you?

Year 7, unit 5, lesson 5.

Checking your homework.R., pp. 41-42, ex. 4.

Part 1) “The Alphabet Girls” (“The ABC Girls”). Part 2) I just smiled. I didn’t have a best friend yet at this new school. Well, it wasn’t quite a new school, it was quite old, … I still lost my way sometimes. I liked Amy and Bella though. So our first names start with A, B, C, D and E. It was almost as good as having a best friend.

Checking your homework.R., pp. 41-42, ex. 4.

• Part 3) • didn’t have a best friend yet • liked Emily so much • started to go round in a little group of five • the secret club was my idea too • always wanted to be part of a special secret

club.

Suggesting

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www.ipfeurope.com/english

• Welcome on the INTERNATIONAL PEN FRIENDS (IPF) web site, the biggest pen friends organization of the world. Our Penfriends club has over 300,000 members aged from 8 to 80 in 192 countries. International Penfriends (IPF) can provide you with new friends from all around the world. IPF does not match penpals via the internet. The main objective of the club is to keep the art of letter writing alive and to use this form of communications to encourage worldwide friendship. However, many members eventually combine e-mail and other forms of communication with their letter writing.

http://www.eto-onlinenglish.com/2012/05/do-you-have-pen-pal.html

What do you think of it?

• When I was about 12 I decided I wanted to have a pen pal overseas. I think I liked the idea of receiving a letter from America, but all my efforts to write to an unknown address seemed vain, until email came about. Now, exchanging emails is a bit different from getting an actual physical letter, but nowadays it is still my main mode of communication with a number of people because it's cheap, fast, and convenient.

My host family, Nick and Nancy

My Pen Pal - Trailerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yWYr2nUz9U

What do you think of it?• Having a pen pal helped me to learn writing in

a very natural, non-classroom environment. I was receiving emails and observing Nancy's Grammar, choice of words and expressions. That, in turn, helped me pattern my writing after a native speaker's writing, instead of a textbook.

What do you think of it?• A pen pal is your accountability. Many of my

readers are at different stages of learning English. Most of them like learning it for free. While free lessons have some value, they have little accountability, i.e. nobody is there to "check" on you, so you can get lazy or sidetracked very quickly. Pen pals will always write and ask how you're doing, so that helps you "stay in the loop."

What do you think of it?• Having pen pals is great because in the future

it can develop into a great friendship. The woman to whom I wrote 12 years ago for the first time is now one of my best friends and has become a part of my family. There is excitement in discovering a new person and then meeting this person in real life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDzYj9n0DzU&feature=endscreen&NR=1

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