Mrs. Green is going to give a birthday party for Mary (Mary is her daughter). Mary is going to be thirteen years old. Twenty friends of Mary's are going to come to the party. They are all girls. Mrs. Green is getting ready for the party. Mrs. White is helping her.

  “Let's make a pretty cake,” Mrs. White says to Mrs. Green.

  “OK. Thank you very much.”

    Mrs. Green is going shopping now. She's going to buy fruit for the party. Mrs. Green buys some fruit. She buys a lot of pears, oranges and bananas. Then she goes home.

    It's three o'clock in the afternoon. Everything is ready. Now the first girl is arriving. The party is going to start in thirty minutes.

    Many Chinese people have a good time during the Chinese New Year. It usually comes in January or February. Each year gets a name. It may be called the year of the dog or the year of the tiger instead of (代替)2006 or 2010. Usually there is dragon(龙)dance in the street. The dragon is a strange(奇怪的)animal about 20 feet(英尺)long. It is made of paper and cloth(布). Men hide(藏)under the dragon, and make a lot of noises by shouting and laughin9. There are always a lot of fireworks(烟火). After the dragon dance, the children sing and dance in the street.

Dear Cindy,

    Please come to my twelfth birthday party at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday. Now I will tell you how to come to my home.

    Start from the hospital behind your home. Turn right at the hospital. Then go straight for 10 minutes. After that, turn left at the library. My home is near the library. It's in a yellow building. My home is on the ninth floor.

Yours,

Lucy

    Hi. My name is Lucy. I'm from Beijing. I like sports. My favourite sport is ping­pong. I have some ping­pong balls. My friend teaches me to play ping­pong. I often wear a T-­shirt and shorts to play ping­pong. I play ping­pong every day. I like to play ping­pong. What about you?

    I'm Tim. I'm ten years old. I go to school on Mondays. I don't go to school on Saturdays. My brother Tom doesn't go to school. He's only two years old. My dad goes to work every day(每天). He isn't at home on Saturdays. My mum doesn't go to work on Saturdays. She goes shopping on Saturdays.

My father's day

    My father is a teacher. He teaches Chinese. He likes his job and his students. And the students like him too. He goes to work from Monday to Friday. He does not work on Saturday and Sunday. Every day, he gets up at five thirty. At six, he has breakfast. Then he goes running. He goes to school at seven. He has lunch at school. He goes home at five in the afternoon. At six o'clock, he has dinner. He doesn't watch TV. He likes reading books with me. He goes to bed at nine thirty.