Презентация "Postcard yesterday today tomorrow"

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Actuality: We live in the age of technological progress, people are increasingly using the Internet and messaging through it. How long ago and where did the tradition of giving cards? How do people congratulate each other on holidays today? The object of research: the postcard and the postcrossing . The subject of research: the history of postcard and the future of postcard. The hypothesis: despite of the massive spread of mobile communication and e-mail, the card is still a constant attribute of any holiday. The purpose of research: to explore the history of postcards. The research objectives: to explore the history of postcards; to consider the classification of cards; to find out if the card loses its value; to tell others about the international project " Postcrossing "; to conduct a survey . Practical significance of the research work: the work will deepen the knowledge of students about the history of cards; the project " Postcrossing " will help to know about an interesting hobby that will promote acquaintance with different cultures, communication with peoples, as well as give an opportunity to collect a unique collection of postcards and stamps .

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Postcard: its history, types Postcard is a card for transmitting that can be mailed without an envelope. The first cards were in Austria in October 1869. the British cards were issued 1 year later. Collecting picture postcards was a popular hobby in the 20 th century.

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Postcard: its history, types Greeting card is an illustrated message that expresses, good will, sympathy, or other sentiments. Greeting cards can be divided into 2 classifications: seasonal and everyday . Seasonal cards are for Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Easter, Halloween. Everyday cards are for birthdays; cards of congratulations, gift cards, bon voyage cards, and thank you cards. The exchange of illustrated greetings among friends dates from ancient times. In Egypt they exchanged by scent bottles and scarabs. The Romans exchanged strenae , branches of olive. The valentine is also regarded as a forerunner of the greeting card.

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Postcard: its history, types The first Christmas card is one designed in England by John Callcott Horsley in 1843 . Louis Prang of Boston is called the « father of the American Christmas card » . In Russia, the card appeared in 1872. the card was bought abroad. The cards were not illustrated. Postcards printed on black paper could be sent both inside the city and to other cities. Postcards on brown paper - for sending inside the city, and green — for nonresident departures.

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Postcard: its history, types The postcards can trace the history of the country . According to the old postcards you can learn how the fashion of the last century changed, how the holidays were celebrated . In the difficult years of the great Patriotic war, the postcard served as a bridge between life and death .

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Postcard: its history, types The 25th of March is the world postcard’s day. That’s why I told my classmates about this holiday. In Russia the first postcard appeared on March 25, 1872. In 1929, there was a competition between two collectors, the essence of which was the dispute about the round-the-world trip: a postcard or a person will be the first to go around the world . With a difference of several hours the card won.

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Postcrossing " Postcrossing " is a website created to meet and communicate with new people using postcards - the most real, not electronic. The Postcrossing project was created in 2005 by Paulo Magalhaes from Portugal. How does it work ? 1. Registration The first step is registration on the website of the project http://www.postcrossing.com 2. Write a postcard The second step is to request to send a postcard — we'll give you the address 3 . Then Post it 4. One day you'll check your mailbox and a postcard from someone far away will be waiting for you ! And Register the postcard

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Postcrossing Interesting facts about Postcrossing The champion of Postcrossing is Wilhelm Johnson from Germany. He sent 26,642 Postcards and received 26,506 . 801, 244 members registered members in 2 07 different countries Russia takes the first place in numbers of post crossers, the second place is taken by Taiwan, and the third one is by China.

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Postcrossing As for me, I have first learned about postcrossing in Russian and English lessons. My aunt has a collection of cards and she joined “ Postcrossing ” a year ago. So, she sent her first postcard to England. It reached the addressee in 23 days. Then she received a postcard from the United States of America. It was a Christmas card. My aunt has 15 postcards from postcrossers (the USA, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Greenland , Belarus etc.)

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Postcrossing I also conducted a survey among my classmates and students of the fourth and seventh grades . Questionnaire : 1. Do you send postcards ? (« Yes » - 5%, « No » - 95%) 2 . Have you ever received a postcard ? (« Yes » - 24%, « No » - 76%) 3 . Do you collect postcards ? (« Yes » - 2%, « No » - 98%) 4 . Are you interested in communicating with foreigners ? (« Yes » - 74%, « No » - 26%) 5 . Do you agree that receiving letters, postcards, parcels is more interesting than communicating on the Internet ? (« Yes » - 64%, « No » - 36%) 6. Do you know what Postcrossing is? (« Yes » - 48%, « No » - 52%) 7 . From which country would you like to receive a postcard ? ( Japan – 13 students , England – 9 students , China – 8 students , Spain – 7 students , Germany – 6 students , the USA – 5 students , Canada – 3 students , Kazakhstan – 3 students , Sweden – 2 students )

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We live in the 21st century, but that doesn’t mean we should forget about everything from the past. It’s true, emails are faster and simpler than traditional mail, but nothing can change the feeling of waiting for a postcard to arrive, especially if you have no idea where it is coming from. Postcrossing is the proof that this claim is a hundred percent true.