Hello! My name is Kim. I'm from the U. S. I am a tall girl. I like basketball best. I often play basketball with my friends on the playground. We have two teams—the White Team and the Yellow Team. I am on the Yellow Team. Each team has five players. My favourite basketball player is Yao Ming. I like him best and I want to be a basketball player like him.

I have a happy family.There are six people in my family.My fathers birthday is in January. lt's very cold,so we can go skating.My grandpa's birthday is in March.I like spring,because we can plant trees and fly kites.My mother's birthday is in May.We usually go hiking on her birthday.There are three birthdays in June.My sister's and my birthday are in June and my grandma's birthday is in June,too.We can always have a good time,because June is in summer.We can go fishing and swimming.

    My name is Zhang Peng. I have a friend. His name is John. He has a grandpa and a grandma. They are seventy years old. They are at home. John's father works in a school. His mother is a doctor. John is a good student. They are very busy. They all get up early in the morning. John often helps his grandparents cook breakfast. There is a big garden and many young trees in front of his house. We can play games there. It's great.

    On Christmas Eve---the night before Christmas Day, children are very happy. They put their stockings (长筒袜) at the end of their beds before they go to bed. They want Father Christmas to give them some presents.

    Mr Green tells his children that Father Christmas is a very kind man. People also call him Santa Claus. He comes on Christmas Eve. He lands on the top of each house and comes down the chimney (烟囱) into the fireplace (壁炉). He brings children a lot of presents.

    Christmas Day always begins before breakfast. The children wake up very early. They can't wait to open the presents in their stockings. Then they wake up their parents and say “Merry Christmas!”

    Do you know what “Christmas” means? Christmas Day is the birthday of Jesus Christ (耶稣基督). When Christ was born (出生) many people gave him presents. So today, people still do the same thing to each other.

    Amy and Ann are twins. They have a nice room. There are two beds and desks in it. Amy and Ann like milk and bread, but they don't like tea or rice. You can see some bottles of milk and some bread on the desks. But you can't see any tea or rice. They can play basketball well. But they don't like football. They think it's easy to ride a bike, but they think it's hard to swim in the river. On Sundays, they go shopping. Amy and Ann are good students. They like their school very much.

    Jack is a little boy. He is five. He likes reading comic books with his father and mother. Jack's father is a head teacher. He gets to school by bike every day. Jack's mother is a businesswoman. She often goes to other countries. She likes cooking Italian food very much. Jack lives in New York with his parents. Their house is nice and clean. There is a big garden in front of the house. But his grandparents live in San Francisco. It is very far from New York. Today Jack's mother is taking him to visit his grandparents. They are going there by bus.

    There are some people on the bus. They are sitting on the seats. Jack is very happy. He is running on the bus. His mother says, "Don't run. You will hurt yourself. Sit down, please." "I like to see my grandparents very much. I want this bus to go faster! ”Jack says. All the people on the bus laugh at him, but he does not know why.