Holiday Postcards
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📮 Grade 7 Postcard Wall
Ms Green: Here are three of the postcards from our wall. Can you guess which one is the most exciting?
🏔️ FROM LILY — Isle of Skye, Scotland: Hi everyone! We stayed in a tiny cottage next to the sea. It rained every day, but we didn’t care. We climbed a mountain called the Old Man of Storr and we watched seals on the rocks. Dad tried to cook fish on the beach and dropped it in the sand. We had sandwiches instead!
🏛️ FROM LEO — Rome, Italy: Ciao! This is my first trip abroad. It’s 35 degrees here. We visited the Colosseum yesterday and I imagined the gladiators fighting. Today we walked for nine hours. I’ve eaten ice cream four times — every flavour is amazing. My feet hurt, but I’m so happy. Arrivederci!
🏕️ FROM ROSA — my garden, Sunbeam Bay: We didn’t go away this summer because Mum was working. So my brother and I camped in the garden for a week. We cooked on a little stove, we looked at the stars and a hedgehog visited our tent every night. We called him Mr Spiky. Best holiday ever!
Ms Green: Rosa’s postcard won the class vote for “Most Exciting Holiday”. It shows that an adventure doesn’t have to be far away.
Vocabulary
- trip — a short journey to visit a place
- postcard — a card with a picture that you send from a holiday
- stay — live in a place for a short time
- sightseeing — visiting famous places as a tourist
- journey — travelling from one place to another
- abroad — in or to another country
Sample questions (12 questions)
- Which postcard is from another country?
- Lily’s
- Rosa’s
- Leo’s
- What happened to Lily’s dad’s fish?
- A seal ate it.
- He dropped it in the sand.
- It was too salty.
- Why do Leo’s feet hurt?
- His shoes were new.
- He walked for nine hours.
- It was very cold.
Answers and hints from Migo appear when you do it online.