Mr. Zhou is a Chinese teacher of Grade 1 in a school. One day while he1 into the classroom, he heard a low2, “Here is the teacher. I don't like him because he is a3 fellow (家伙). I'm sure the boring fellow is going to4 putting in commas (逗号) today." It was Bill's voice. He was talking with a boy next to him.

    The teacher didn't get angry. He said 5 about it, but began to talk about putting in commas, and then he6 down the sentence on the blackboard," Bill says his7 is a boring fellow."

    The class laughed and Bill's face8 red.

    “Now," said the teacher. "I'll show you9 important commas are."

    He put10 commas into the sentence and then read, "Bill, says his teacher, is a boring fellow."

    Mary is a six-year-old girl. She often goes to the shop and goes to the church (教堂) with her mother. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}

    One day, when they are in the church, the pastor(牧师)asks, "Who wants to go to the heaven(天堂) ? Please put up your hands. "All the people but Mary put up their hands. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}

    "I want to go home with my mother," answers Mary."

    When they get home, it is dark. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} She is very busy. She washes some clothes.  She cleans the table and the chairs. Then she wants to sweep the floor. But the broom (扫帚) isn't in the room.

    "Could you help me, Mary? Would you like to go. out and bring the broom for me?"

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    "Never fear, God can help you,"

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#} She puts her hand out of the door.

It was a cold winter morning. My 12-year-old granddaughter, Jayne, sent me messages on the phone every hour during her six-hour drive to our house.

"Grandma, can you put some snow in the fridge (冰箱)? That way, I can feel snow when I get there," she wrote. Jayne lives in the south of Georgia, the US with her parents, so she never saw snow before.

"Yes, I will," I wrote. "There is still some snow on the ground in the yard." And I sent her a few photos of it. However, the weather report brought me bad news. It said the weather would be sunny at noon. This made me feel concerned.

In the afternoon, they finally arrived. Jayne got out of the car first. She ran into the yard and put her hands in the snow. She looked so excited. It was great that the sun didn't come out that day.

"Grandma, the weather is so cold, but I enjoy playing with snow," Jayne said. Then she started to build a snowman. She made two large snowballs first. They were the head and the body. It looked nice. Jayne kept playing outside until her hands got wet and cold. Watching Jayne playing in the snow made me feel warm and thankful.

I still remember the lovely cold day. Small things in our lives can also make us happy.

I'm Gina Green. I am a  1 . My favourite color is red. My telephone number is 675-3967. There are 2  numbers in it. I have a friend. His name is Frank. 3 is his favourite color. Look! His schoolbag and jacket are blue! 4  is his telephone number? It is 880-7532. Ms. Smith is his

English teacher. But my English teacher is Ms. Yu. This is my classroom. 5 the number please. S-E-V-E-N. Yes, I'm in Class Seven.

An animal house lets a bad parrot go away for he likes saying bad words. Now the parrot finds a friend in Amazon's voice app at his new home.

Rocco is a gray parrot. His owner finds that he can use the voice app to play his favorite music,tell jokes and even order food.

Thanks to the app, it helps stop the clever bird from doing shopping. If not, he may really buy some strawberries, ice cream and even a cup.

Mary has the parrot now. She says she takes in the parrot after the animal house lets him out because he often says bad words.

Eric, Rocco's first owner, teaches him bad words. Now he really loves his new home. He talks with the app about 40 times a day.

And he can make different sounds. He can make the sound of a phone, a car, a clock, a door bell, and even the sound of opening or closing the door.

How long will it take to learn a new language?  One year， two years or ten years?  
According to Chris Lonsdale， a 1 ， you don't need to spend such a long time. 2 ， all you need is just six months. Is that 3 ?  Believe it or not， thеscientist himself has used his special ways tо learn more than five languages， each in about half a 4 ！ Here are the ways for language learners：

Listen a lot—it doesn't matter if you 5 or not. Focus on （注意） getting the meaning first. Body language and facial expressions can 6 .

Get creative and use what you have learnt. 

Focus on the most commonly used words， and use them to learn 7 words. Get a language partner to help you. Copy the face—watch 8 how people's mouth moves when they are speaking. 

Connect words with pictures in your 9 . Will these ways be helpful?  If you keep 10 them for about six months， I'm sure you will be surprised by the results！