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Postage Stamp Activity

The document is a vocabulary exercise that provides 10 sentences with blanks to be filled in by choosing from a list of words related to international mail delivery. The sentences describe aspects of international mail delivery such as prepaid postage, postage stamps, crossing country borders, and members of the Universal Postal Union agreeing to accept mail from other member countries. The document tests understanding of vocabulary words in the context of how international mail delivery worked prior to modern systems.

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Postage Stamp Activity

The document is a vocabulary exercise that provides 10 sentences with blanks to be filled in by choosing from a list of words related to international mail delivery. The sentences describe aspects of international mail delivery such as prepaid postage, postage stamps, crossing country borders, and members of the Universal Postal Union agreeing to accept mail from other member countries. The document tests understanding of vocabulary words in the context of how international mail delivery worked prior to modern systems.

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Vocabulary

Put the right word in the blanks. The sentences are from the text.
crossed received postage glue prepaid members international mail stamp
delivered immediately accept

1. When people ______________ letters they didn’t have to pay anything.

2. Before the invention of the ______________ ______________,it was difficult to send a


letter to another country.

3. The post office ______________ the letter.

4. Each country in the UPS agreed to accept letters with prepaid postage from the other
______________.

5. If a letter ______________ several countries, the problem was worse.

6. Postage stamps became popular in Great Britain ______________.

7. Some countries did not want to ______________ letters with stamps from other countries.

8. The letters were ______________.

9. There were still problems with international ______________.

10. Rowland Hill, a British teacher, had the idea of a postage stamp with ______________ on
the back.

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