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.

    My name is Lily. I'm from London. This is my mother. She is an English teacher. She is good at cooking and she is nice. This is my father. He is thin(瘦的)and short. He is clever. I love them. Oh, this is my house. Is it beautiful? The famous Thames(泰晤士河) is close to my house. It is long. There are a lot of ships on the river(河). I like watching the ships.

    Mary is an American school girl. She is now in Beijing with her parents. Mary doesn't know Chinese, but she is studying Chinese. She often speaks Chinese to her Chinese friends. Sometimes they don't understand her because she can't speak Chinese well.

    It's Sunday morning, she goes out. She is walking in the street. She is going to the zoo to see elephants and monkeys, but she doesn't know how to get there. She asks a Chinese boy. The boy can't understand her. Then she takes out a pen and a piece of paper. She draws an elephant on it, and shows the picture to the boy. The boy understands now, and he shows Mary the way to the zoo. 

    John and Jack are going to the park. John has got a small bag. He has three packets of noodles, a cake and an apple. Jack has got a big bag. He's got two large bottles of water, three oranges, four bananas, two hamburgers and a packet of crisps. Suddenly(突然) they see a spaceship in the sky. It is small and round. It is falling. A big red man comes out. The boys are afraid. The red man smiles(微笑)at them. He needs some water for his spaceship. The spaceship cannot fly without(没有)water. Jack gives a large bottle of water to him. He puts it in the spaceship. The spaceship flies away.

    Tomorrow is Sunday. It will be sunny and warm. We are going to have a picnic. I will bring some fruit and biscuits. Xiaomei will bring five bottles of water. Dongdong will bring his basketball. We will play basketball together. We will have a good time.

Wednesday 23 May

Dear Kim,

    We arrived at Holiday Cove on Monday and we are having lots of fun.

The flight was so boring. I nearly fell asleep but at least everything went well—not like last time.

    When we landed we went straight our camp. My cousin Emma is staying next to us.

    I am excited because we are going to visit the crocodile farm tomorrow. Peter is scared and says he wants to go to see the kangaroos instead.