Last week we talked about growing potatoes. Today we will talk about growing another root vegetable, carrots. Carrots are easy to grow and easy to harvest. They taste good. And they contain a lot of carotene (胡萝卜素). When we eat the carrots, our body makes carotene into vitamin A(维生素A).

    When we think of carrots, we usually say carrots are long, thin and orange. But carrots are in many different sizes and shapes. And not all carrots are orange. Sometimes we have green carrots with yellow inside.

    Carrots should be planted in the sand. The soil also should have no rocks.

    Hello, my name is John. I have two good friends, Sam and Lingling. Sam is strong. He can play football. He can run fast, too. He likes playing football. He can't ride a bike. Lingling is tall. She is our star. She can play basketball. She can fly a kite, too. She can't skate. She likes swimming and running. I can jump high. I can run fast, too. I can't play football. I like riding a bike.

    Lingling's parents have got her report. It says "Lingling is very good at Maths. She's quite good at English. She tries hard at Science. She runs fast at PE. She's very good at Chinese. But she doesn't work hard at Art."

Jack: Hello, Jim!

Jim: Hi, Jack.

Jack: Let's go to the zoo!

Jim: Great! I love animals.

Jack: Me too! I like pandas best (最).

Jim: I like birds best. And I have a bird. It's green and yellow.

Jack: Cool!