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How to write : Letters / Postcards - Emails

• In pictures: Royal Mail's alphabetical landmark stamps
  "Royal Mail has begun an alphabetical tour of the UK with its first set of stamps depicting what it calls "iconic" landmarks."
  (BBC)

• Buildings & Places - Click on Flashcard Library.
  At the Airport - At the Bank - At the Beach - At the Post Office - At the Restaurant - At the Supermarket - Buildings and Places Around Town - Housing In the City and On The Street
  (aussi en ESPAGNOL) flashcards
  (esl-library.com)
  
  

• A pillar box (upload.wikimedia.org)
  
  
  
  
  
• Clipart : Mail (clipartheaven.com) - UPDATED
  
  

• You've got mail (youvegotmail.warnerbros.com)
  
  
  
  
  

• Community places - flashcards - POUR MEMBRES UNIQUEMENT (English Raven)
  (bank | church | post office | garage | barber's shop hairdresser's shop | dentist's clinic...

• Salutations in Letters and Email (businesswritingblog.com)

• List of Letter Closings and E-mail Goodbyes (suite101.com)

• A mail carrier,
  "mailman (US), postman/postwoman[1] (UK), letter carrier (in American English and in New Zealand) or postie (in Australia, New Zealand)
  is an employee of the post office or postal service, who delivers mail and parcel post to residences and businesses.
  The term “mail carrier” came to be used as a gender-neutral substitute for “mailman” soon after women began performing the job.
  In the Royal Mail, the official name changed from "letter carrier" to "postman" in 1883,[2] and "postwoman" has also been used for many years."
  (Wikipedia)

• All about Emails
  ICT : Internet & Email / Communication & Email
  (Primary Resources)

• Le dictionnaire postal
  "vous permet de voir la traduction des mots couramment utilisés dans l'univers postal."
  (laposte.fr)
  
  
  

• At the Post Office: Mail-Related Words with pictures (Enchanted Learning)
  
  

• What do British postal codes mean?
  (englischlehrer.de)

• Addressing an Envelope (nhcs.k12.nc.us)
  
  

• At the post-office (FLALE)

• Shopping (Learn English.de)

• Stamp collecting Encyclopaedia (filahome.nl) - UPDATED
  

• Emails : abbreviations

Examples :

• You've got Royal Mail - with the Queen's profile
  "She is more usually associated with old-fashioned snail mail - after all, her head does grace the UK's stamps."
  (BBC)

  

Facts :

• A Small Mystery Hidden In Five Postage Stamps
  "In 1993 the Royal Mail in Great Britain issued a set of five se-tenant stamps to honor the legendary fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. 
  The stamps depicted iconic scenes from The Reigate Squire, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Six Napoleons,  The Greek Interpreter,
  and The Final Problem.
  Hidden within the design of each stamp is a single letter; the five letters (D, E, L, O, and Y) can be anagrammed to form a relevant word other
  than “yodel.”  The question is whether you can locate the five letters.  You will need good eyes, perhaps a magnifying glass, and a supersized image (available here – click twice).  Those who are curious, but too impatient to do the searching, can avoid the fun and skip to the solution."
  (neatorama.com)
  MORE information HERE.
  (trussel.com)
  
  

• Royal Mail's new stamps from magical realms
  "This week, Royal Mail released a special set of stamps featuring some of the world's most famous wizards, witches and enchanters,
  from Morgan le Fay to Albus Dumbledore. Prepare for a magical mystery tour ..."
  (guardian.co.uk)
  

  

• Thousands of undelivered letters hoarded by US postman
  "Some 20,000 pieces of mail - many more than a decade old - have been recovered from a postman's garage in the US city of Philadelphia...
  Delaying mail and stealing mail are both federal offences in the US."
  (BBC)
  
  

• Posties get new weapon in war with dogs
  "Royal Mail delivery staff are being equipped with a device which releases compressed air and makes a hissing sound designed to scare off dogs."
  (telegraph.co.uk)

  

• The US Postal Service - online interactive listening comprehension (ESL-lab by Randall S. Davis)

• Managing Distraction: How and Why to Ignore Your Inbox
  "The problem confronts you each morning, like a squalling baby that must be fed NOW.
  It’s your email inbox, loaded with capital letters and exclamation marks and missives marked “URGENT.”..."
  (forbes.com)

  

• Formal letter vocabulary - an interactive quiz (BBC)

• Different meanings of the word "post" - interactive exercise (BBC)

• Let's Play Post Office - a quiz (Fun Trivia)
  
  
  
  
• Post Office / Telephone (intermediate level) - TRUE OR FALSE? (english.specialist.hu)
  
  
  
  
• Postal Abbreviations for Streets (a4esl)
  What is the full form of the abbreviations ?
  

• See Letters / Postcards

• 'Sexting' Craze Increasing Among Children - a lesson plan with AUDIO
  "‘Sexting’ is the sending of naked photos via text and e-mail."
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)

• The Word “Dear” Disappearing in E-mails (22nd January, 2011) - a lesson plan (breakingnewsenglish.com)
  
  Dear Dear, Come Back Soon (patspapers.com)

  

• 09 October is World Post Day.
  Practise your English while you learn about postal systems.
  "Have a look at the article, poem, word game, cartoon, trivia and links."
  (British Council)

  

• Woman Fired for Using Capital Letters - a lesson plan
  "WOULD YOU GET ANGRY IF YOU GOT E-MAILS WITH LOTS OF CAPITAL LETTERS?"
  WARM-UPS :
  CAPITAL LETTERS / NETIQUETTE / E-MAIL / RED IDIOMS
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)

• Google software to stop drunken e-mails - a lesson plan
  (Breaking News English)
  
  

• How to write letters and e-mails (englishingambier.over-blog.com)
  

   

• Postal systems.
  "Have a look at the article, poem, word game, cartoon, trivia and links."
  (British Council)

  

• You've Got Mail - a lesson plan - PDF (english-4u.com) SITE PAYANT
  Language function: discussing issues; reading comprehension; talking about the past
  Topic: electronic messaging; health
  Grammar: used to do sth
  - with Teacher's Notes

• Search the Web for U.S. History of the 1930s. (Education World)
  " Learn the stories behind the stamps issued by the United States Postal Service commemorating the people, places, events, and trends of the 1930s."
  (Présentation des timbres suivie de questions - Il faut chercher les réponses aux sites indiqués.)
  
  

• Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter - a poem by Robert Bly (The Library of Congress)
  
  

• Message In A Bottle by Police

• Please Mister Postman by The Beatles :
  "Mister postman look and see
  You got a letter in your bag for me
  I been waiting such a long time"
  
  

• Postman by Rasmus :
  "Now we're gonna talk about the postman,
  who brings the paper in the morning,
  who wakes up at the night to make his job right.
  With his bike driving all around the city
  delivers papers, oh isn't that pretty."
  (sing365.com)

• Return to Sender by Elvis Presley
  
  (Special Delivery)
  
  - with the VIDEO (You Tube)
  
  

• Tear Stained Letter by Johnny Cash :
  "I'm gonna write a tear stained letter,
  I'm gonna mail it straight to you...
  Put it special delivery...
  It'll be about the saddest thing,
  Your mailman ever did bring around."
  
• The letter by Joe Cocker

• Songs inspired by spam (bradsucks.net)
  

Cartoons and Signs :

Cartoon: What's a Postman? COMMENT + LINKS (jeffreyhill.typepad.com)	How to be British N° 28 : REAL MAIL - UPDATED	@ - UPDATED
Do you sell very long envelopes ? 'I want to write to my friend in Llanfairpwllgwyngllgogerychwyrnd robwllllantysiliogogogoch.' (cartoonstock.com)	I used to get letters... (problogger.net)	You could have sent an email! (cyberlove101.com)
Didn't you get my e-mail ? (Site unknown)	A new stamp	It's The Thought That Counts/ Totally Useless Gifts (cartoonstock.com)
We must be on a mailing list (media.tapirpirates.net)	LEARN WITH DRAWINGS : INTERNET (dessins et questions) - (erp.oissel.onac.org)	Knee-mail

Posters :

• Australia Post Says Touch Someone With A Letter
  The tagline: “If you really want to touch someone, send them a letter”.
  (theinspirationroom.com)

  

Stories :

• After numerous rounds of "We don't even know if Osama is still alive," Osama
  himself decided to send George Bush a letter in his own handwriting to let
  him know he was still in the game. Bush opened the letter, which appeared to
  contain a single line consisting of a coded message:

  370HSSV-0773H

  Bush was baffled, so he e-mailed it to Condoleezza Rice. Condi and her
  aides had not a clue either, so they sent it to the FBI. No one could solve
  it at the FBI, so it went to the CIA, then to the NSA.

  Eventually they asked Britain's MI-6 for help. Within a minute MI-6 cabled
  the White House with this reply:

  "Tell the President he's holding the message upside down."
  

Videos :

• To R.P. Salazar, with Love
  "n January 2007, Rachel P. Salazar and Ruben P. Salazar were living 9,000 miles apart and completely unaware of each other's existence.
  But when an email meant for Rachel accidentally went to Ruben, it wasn't long before an ordinary mistake began to look like an extraordinary stroke of luck."
  (YouTube)

   

• Gmail Man - UPDATED

   

   

• Social networking in its oldest form : ARTICLE + VIDEO
  "Over the last two decades, Harold Hackett has sent out over 4,800 messages in a bottle from Prince Edward Island...
  Every message asks for the finder to send a response back to Hackett, and since 1996 he has received over 3,100 responses from all over the world.
  In this First Person account, Hackett talks about the items people have sent him and the unexpected side effects from his hobby."
  (BBC)

  

   

• How to write an email
  (YouTube)

• Cell Phone, BlackBerry And E-Mail Addiction
  Why are cell phones addictive?
  Aren't cell phones essential today?
  What's the biggest danger of cell phone addiction?
  How can I break cell phone addiction?...
  (videojug.com)
  

• Pub FedEx (Seul au Monde) (koreus.com)
  Catherine Tertre (Ac. Rennes) suggère les activités suivantes :
  - Regarder la video sans le son et imaginer le dialogue
  - Imaginer ce qu'il y a dans le paquet
  - Imaginer ce qu'il aurait pu faire s'il avait su ce que contenait le paquet...

  

Cinema :

• You've Got Mail "is a 1998 American romantic comedy...
  It is based on a manuscript of the same title written by the film's director, Nora Ephron, in which two letter-writing lovers are completely unaware that their sweetheart is in fact the person with whom they share a certain degree of animosity...
  You've Got Mail updates that concept with the use of e-mail." 
  - with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
  (Wikipedia)