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3
Encourage students who go on holiday to send the class a 
postcard in English.
Real Reading 1 by Liz Driscoll
 Teacher’s 
notes
More activities
1
Here are three more messages from the inside 
of cards. Ask students to read the messages, say who the 
people are and why the message has been written.
2 
Ask students to choose someone – a friend or family 
member – to send a card to. Get them to write 
a message for the inside of the card.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I’m quite special
And so are you!
Guess who?
Congratulations, 
Rachel and Paul. 
We’ve just heard 
the news! All t
he 
very best for your 
future together!
Rita and Jack
Just a short note to 
say thank you for the 
wonderful meal last 
night, Sushila. Can I 
have the recipe for the 
starter? 
It was delicious. 
You must come round 
to me soon.
Love, Daisy

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Unit
8 
Where can we park?
Ask students to look at the unit title and explain to the class that 
this unit is about parking. Ask students how easy it is to park in 
towns / cities in their country.
Explain that this unit is about parking in Britain. Point out that you 
might get a heavy fi ne if you park illegally in Britain.
Get ready to read
• Discuss the answers with the class. Read out each sentence 
in turn and get students to raise their hand if this sentence is 
true for them.
• If you are teaching a multilingual group in an English-speaking 
environment, students could also answer the questions about 
the town / city in which they are studying. You can then 
discuss the answers and fi nd out if everyone agrees.
• Get students to do the exercise. Ask one of the students to 
read out his / her sentence. Then invite other students to read 
out their sentences if they have written something different.