Today is Lily's birthday. It's June 2nd . She gets some presents and cards from her friends. Her grandparents give her a lovely doll. Her mother buys her a lot of delicious food. She climbs mountains with her father. She is very happy today.

    Spring Festival is our Chinese people's festival. There are twelve names. We call it the year of sheep, the year of dog… and the year of monkey. Before the day of the festival, people are very busy(忙于 ) shopping and cleaning their houses. On the Eve, there is a big family dinner. After dinner, all the family stay up late( 守夜 ) to welcome the new year. It is the middle of the night. We have some dumplings and watch many good TV programs( 节目). On the first day of the New Year, people wear their new clothes to go to their friends' houses. They say “ Happy Spring Festival” to each other. Children will get some money from their parents or other people. So people especially( 特别) children like Spring Festival very much.

    Sally and Kitty are good friends. They study in the same school but different classes. After school they often go home together. They like swimming and going fishing. On Sundays they often go to the park and fly kites. They run with the kites near the river. When they see their kites high up in the sky, they are happy. But their favorite sports are different. Sally likes playing volleyball and Kitty likes playing basketball.

    My uncle Dick lives in the countryside. He's a farmer there. He often drives to see my father and me on Saturdays. He is busy in spring and autumn. In spring, he plants crops on the farm, and in autumn, he gets the crops in. He usually gets up at seven in the morning. He likes swimming in the river in summer. I often help him on my holidays.

Mr. Li: Who broke the window, Ben?

Ben: I don't know.

Mr. Li: Really? Mary saw you play basketball here.

Ben: I'm sorry, Mr. Li.

Mr. Li: Don't tell a lie (谎言）again.

Ben: I'm so sorry. I will not do it again.

Mr. Li: I'm happy to hear that. You're a good boy.

Do you know the Dragon Boat Festal? It's on May the fifth. It's a traditional festival in China. And the Dragon Boat festival is in memory of a Chinese poet, QuYuan. People in China usually have a big meal with family on the Dragon Boat Festival. And they usually eat rice dumplings. Rice dumpling is also called Zongzi. It is a kind of rice dumpling wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves. In the past people threw rice dumplings into the river to feed the fish so that they would not eat QuYuan's body. Dragon boat racing is the most exciting activity during the Dragon Boat Festival. Children all enjoy watching the Dragon boat racing very much. A dragon boat looks like a dragon, and is painted in red, white, yellow or black. A dragon boat is 20 to 40 meters long and need twenty people to row. The Dragon Boat Festival is very interesting.