I'm Tony. I'm a boy. I live in a big house with my family. I have a sister and a brother. My sister likes to draw pictures and sing. My brother likes to play football. We all go to school by bus. My mother works in a hospital. She is a doctor. My father has a farm. The farm is very big. We like to go for a walk together. I love my family.

    Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright are brothers. Their job is to mend bicycles. In their spare time, they like inventing things. One day, they are watching some birds flying in the sky .They want to fly in the sky, too. They think they should invent a flying machine, so they can fly in the sky too. But it's a hard work to invent a flying machine. They work very hard. First, they watch how the birds fly. Next, they draw a picture of a flying machine. Then they build the machine, it is heavy and ugly, the machine can't fly to the sky. So they work again and make it lighter. Finally, they make the first plane in the world, though the plane only flies in the sky for twelve seconds.

At a snack bar

Dad: What would you like?

Su Hai: I'm hungry. I'd like a pie.

Dad: What about you, Su Yang?

Su Yang: I'm not hungry. I'm thirsty. I'd like some orange juice.

Assistant: Sorry, there's no orange juice. Would you like some apple juice?

Su Yang: No, I don't like apple juice. Can I have some water?  

Assistant: Ok. What about you, sir?

Dad: I'd like some noodles and a cup of coffee.

Assistant: Ok.

Dad: How much are they?  

Assistant: Forty yuan.  

Dad: Here you are.

Assistant: Thank you very much.

    Lu Ban was a famous craftsman in China a long time ago. His father was a craftsman, too. He usually worked with his father and learned a lot from him. One day he worked on a mountain. His hand was hurt by a leaf.

    He found many teeth on the leaf and the teeth were very sharp. He thought he could make a tool with teeth to cut things quickly. That was a saw. People still use the tool today.

    Little Peter is now in Beijing with his parents. Little Peter doesn't know much Chinese, but he is trying to learn and speak it. He often tries to speak Chinese to his Chinese friends. Sometimes they don't understand him, because he can't speak Chinese well.

    It's Sunday morning. He goes out. He is walking in the street. He is going to the zoo to see the monkeys, but he doesn't know how to get there. He asks a Chinese boy. The boy can't understand him. Then he takes out a pen and some paper. He draws a monkey on it, and shows the picture to the boy. The boy smiles and then shows little Peter the way to the zoo.

I am Wang Lin, I am twelve years old. My good friend Tom is from the United States. He is older than me. There are three people in his family. Their parents teach English in a high school in Beijing. Tom goes to school in his mother's car every day. They all like Chinese food. Their favourite food is Sichuan food, it is hot and delicious. So they often eat out on weekends.