Plants are very important. This is because plants can make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals and people can not make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals can get their food by eating plants and animals. People get their food by eating plants and animals, too. So animals and people need plants in order to live. This is why there are so many plants around us. There are two kinds of plants: flowering plants and non-flowering plants. You can know some trees from their flowers and fruits. Non-flowering plants do not grow flowers. You can not see many non-flowering plants around you. If you look carefully at the plants around us, you will find that there are many kinds of plants. Some plants are large and some are small. Most of them are green. Thanks to the plants around us we can live on the earth.

    Hello, I'm Li Qiang. I'm ten. This is my family. We are at home. My mother is cooking. My father is watching TV. My grandparents are reading newspapers. Look, my sister is playing with her doll. I am writing a letter.

Hans Christian Andersen

    Hans Christian Andersen was a great writer.  He wrote many famous fairy tales for children all over the world.

    Andersen was born in 1805. When he was a little boy, his father read him a story every day. His father died when he was 11. He had to leave school and started working. He loved reading books very much, so he went back to school at 17. His first book came out in 1835. From then on, he wrote about one book a year for 37 years. Some of his famous fairy tales are The Emperor's New, Clothes and The Ugly Duckling. He died in 1875.

    Many children enjoy reading because of him.

    Two goats live on the left side of a river. One day they want to eat the grass on the right side. There is a bridge over the river. But on the bridge there is a lion. What should they do? They think of a plan.

    The first goat meets the lion. The lion shouts, "I'm going to eat you!" The first goat says, "Don't eat me, please. The second goat is bigger and younger than me." So the lion lets the first goat go.

    Then the second goat comes. The lion shouts, "I'm going to eat you!" The second goat says, "Don't eat me, please. The third goat is bigger and younger than me." So the lion lets the second goat go.

    The lion waits and waits, but there is not a third goat.

My name is Tom. I am twelve years old. My birthday is in fall. The weather is cool and windy. Its golden and farmers are busy. It's favourite season. Because I can eat many fruits. My father's birthday is in fall, too. Our birthdays are on the same (相同的) day. On our birthdays we usually have a big dinner at home. Sometimes we have a picnic. We have a lot of fun on that day.