Hello! My name is Kim. I'm from the U. S. I am a tall girl. I like basketball best. I often play basketball with my friends on the playground. We have two teams—the White Team and the Yellow Team. I am on the Yellow Team. Each team has five players. My favourite basketball player is Yao Ming. I like him best and I want to be a basketball player like him.

    Hello. I'm Julia. I have a good friend. Her name is Judy. She is twelve years old. She is from the US. She is good at English and Art. Her birthday is on May 15^th. I want to buy her a birthday gift. She enjoys flying a kite. So I want to buy her a beautiful kite. I hope she will like it.

    It's September 13th today. It's my birthday. I get up early at 5:30 in the morning. After breakfast, I go to the park with my parents. We take many photos. In the afternoon, my father buys a big birthday cake for me. My friends make many beautiful cards for me. We eat the birthday cake together. I am very happy.

    Mr. Jones teaches history. He is a very good teacher. During this year, most of his students got at least a C on the tests and there were many A's. On the last test, however, Mr. Jones got a big surprise. He wrote down all of his students' scores. Then he counted the number of students that got between 91 and 100. There were only two! Only two students got A's! He found out that there were only a few B's and C's. Most of the students in his class got a D or and F on the final test. Mr. Jones looked at the test again. He thought that it was too hard. He decided to give every student 10 more points. Then many of the students got good grades on the test. What a nice teacher!

    Today is Sunday . It's cool and dry . Some children are in the park . Some girls are sitting under a big tree . They are singing . Kitty and Eddie are flying kites . They are happy on the grass , the boys are playing football . John is watching them . There is a pond in the park . Some ducks are in the pond . Betty is drawing the ducks . She likes drawing .

    My name is Gao Ping. My English teacher is Julia. She is from England. She has two children, a son and a daughter. Her daughter is Betty. Her son is Dick. Julia and her daughter are in China, but her husband Paul Smith is in England. Her son is in America. Paul is a policeman. Dick is a college student. Betty and I are in the same school. We are classmates, and we are good friends. I teach her Chinese and she teaches me English.