Everyone has his own birthday. People in different countries celebrate their birthdays in different w. Here are four people from different countries. They will tell us h they celebrate their birthdays in their countries.

    Sandy Morrison comes from Madrid(马德里). "My twenty-first birthday is on a Saturday. To w me a happy birthday, they are going to pull(拉, 扯)on my ear twenty-one times, once for each y. It is an old custom(风俗). Some people pull on the ear just once, but my friends are very traditional(传统).

    Mr. and Mrs. Sato are from Tokyo. Mr. Sato is going to be sixty tomorrow. In Japan, the s birthday is called Kanreki—it's the beginning of a new life. The colour red is for a new life, so they always give s red as a surprise（惊喜）.

    Li Xiaomei from Beijing feels very e and tells us, "Tomorrow is my sixteenth birthday, so we're going to have a family party. My mother is going to cook noodles. Noodles are for a l life."

    Phillip Evans, from Paris, smiles to us, "I'm going to be thirty next week, so I'm going to invite three very good friends out to dinner. In F, when you have birthday, you often invite people out. In some countries, I know it's the opposite—people t you out."