Hello, I'm Mike. I have a new classroom. It's big and nice. It's on the second floor. There are forty-five students in my class. Look, there are many desks and chairs in it. They are yellow. There is a beautiful picture on the white wall. Where is the new computer? Oh, it's on the teacher's desk. It's black.

    Hans Christian Andersen （1805﹣1875）was the most famous writer in Denmark. His stories have attracted many young readers around the world.

Andersen's father was a poor shoe-maker. As he was very young, Hans was spoilt by his parents and his grandmother. But when he was 11years old, his father died and the boy had to leave school. His mother made a living by washing clothes, while Hans spent a great deal of time making theatre toys and puppets. He reads as many books as he could.

    Andersen published his first tale in 1835, and continued writing until he died. Andersen's words are simple and humor. The stories became popular in the early 1840's, and made Andersen famous more and more. Among the best known of his fairy tales are The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes, A Little Match Girl and so on.

    It is March 12th. It's Tree Planting Day. There are many people on the hills. They're planting trees. People plant many trees today. Plants are important to us. They can make food from the air, water and sunlight. But animals and people can't do so. Animals and people can get food from plants. Without plants, life will not go on, Plants make the air clean, they can keep water from flowing away(流失). They can stop wind from blowing up sand and earth. But in some places people are cutting down too many trees. This brings floods(洪水) and sandstorm(沙暴). Now more and more people know that plants are important. They will plant more trees and grow more plants. They will try to protect the trees.

    Some monkeys are playing in a tree near a lake. They are having a good time.

Suddenly a little monkey cries, "Look, the moon has dropped into the water!" "Get is out, hurry!" says the old monkey.

    The little monkey hangs from the tree by his tail. Then each monkey hangs from the other by his legs.

    At last they get to the water, but still they cannot scoop up the moon. Another little monkey finds half a gourd (葫芦) to scoop up the moon. Aha! He gets the moon in the gourd.

    At that time all the monkey come for the moon. But the gourd drops and the moon are broken. The monkeys are very sorry. But they look up, they find the moon is still high up in the sky, shining bright.