The summer vacation is coming soon. The students in Class One are talking about their vacations. Peter is going back to England because he wants to visit his parents. Liu Xing is going to Harbin because his uncle lives there. He is going to visit him. Cindy is going to learn to swim during the summer vacation. Lucy and Lily are twins(双胞胎). They are going to Beijing with their parents. There `are many places of interest(名胜古迹) in Beijing, such as (例如) the Summer Palace and the Palace Museum. Everyone has a good plan.

    Mary is a little girl. She is only four. She is not at school. She can't read or write. But her sister Joan is a schoolgirl. She is ten years old. She can read and write.

    One day, Joan sees her little sister in the room. She is at the table. There is a pencil on her hand. She is writing.

    "What are you writing, Mary?" she asks.

    "I'm writing a letter to my friend Rose."

    "Buy how can you? You can't write," says her sister.

    "Well," says Mary, "it doesn't matter. Rose can't read"

    Ann is a good girl in school. She has seven subjects: Chinese, Maths, English, Science, Art, Music and PE. She studies very hard. She is good at many subjects, such as Chinese, English and Maths. She also likes Music and PE. She likes playing football and table tennis. She likes playing the pipe (琵琶) too. She has a nice pipe at home. She practices (练习) it every day.

    Sam is a student. He has only four lessons every day, but he goes to school six days a week. The following is his school timetable (时间表).

    Miss Smart is our English teacher. She is a nice teacher. She is forty years old. She is from New York. New York is a big city in the east of America. Now she lives in Haikou. She likes pop music and she can play the guitar. In the evening she likes watching TV and playing computer games. Her favourite sport is running. She likes running in the morning after she gets up. Every day she goes to school by bus and gets to school at 7:30.She likes us and we all like her, too