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.

In a shop

In a shop, a woman wants to buy a skirt.

Shop assistant: may I help you?

Woman: yes, please. I'd like to buy a skirt.

Shop assistant: what colour do you like?

Woman: I like red.

Shop assistant: ok, here you are.

Woman: thank you. how much is it?

Shop assistant: ninety yuan.

Woman: ok, I will take it.

Dear Jone，

    How are you? I'm writing to you in my school. Our school is very nice. There are about 2000 students and 100 teachers in our school. I go to school from Monday to Friday. There are five classes in the morning and two in the afternoon. We play games every afternoon after class. I like playing volleyball very much. I often play it with my classmates.

    I have three good friends .One of them is Anna. She often helps me with my Chinese. I help her study English. Lily and Lucy are my good friends, too. We often sing and dance together. We are very happy!

Yours,

Jack

    Today is a good day. It's sunny and cool. I go to school to see my new classroom. The classroom is very big. There are many desks and chairs in it. There is a computer on the teacher's desk. And there are some pictures on the wall. I meet a new friend Jack. He is tall and strong. He wears a red shirt and a pair of blue shorts. At noon, we have chicken and noodles for lunch at school. They taste really good. In the afternoon, Miss Wang takes us to a farm for a visit. There are many vegetables and animals on the farm, such as potatoes, carrots, horses and so on. We have a good time today and I write it down on my notebook before I go to bed.

    Hello! My name's Xu Lu. I'm from Shanghai. I'm a pupil. It's Sunday today. It's warm and sunny. I go to the museum with my friend, Xiaofei. There are lots of people in the museum. There is a robot in front of the door. The robot can talk and it's a singing robot, too. We play with it We go home at four o' clock in the afternoon. We have a good time.

Halloween

    Halloween is an autumn holiday that Americans celebrate every year. It means "holy evening," and it comes every October 31, the evening before All Saints' Day. However, it is not really a church holiday. It is a holiday for children mainly.

    Every autumn, when the vegetables are ready to eat, children pick large orange pumpkins. Then they cut faces in the pumpkins and put a burning candle inside. It looks as if there were a person looking out of the pumpkin! These lights are called jack-o'-lanterns, which mean "Jack of the lantern".

    The children also put on strange masks and frightening costumes every Halloween. Some children paint their faces to look like monsters. Then they carry boxes or bags from house to house. Every time they come to a new house, they say, "Trick or treat! Money or eat!" The grown-ups put treat-money or candy in their bags.

    Not only children, but most grown-ups also love Halloween and Halloween parties because on this day, they can disguise themselves as personages or ghost as their imaginations will lead them. These bring them the satisfaction of being young.