As teenagers, you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big. Such as winning the Nobel Prize, or they can be small, you may just want to become the best student in your class. Once you find a dream, what do you do with it? Do you try to make your dream ①real?

Andrew Matthews, an Australian writer tells us that making our dreams real is life's biggest ②challenge. You may think you're not very good at some school subjects or ③___________ is impossible for you to become a writer. These kinds of thoughts stop you from getting your dream. In fact, everyone can make his dream come true. The first thing you must do is to remember what your dream is.  Don't let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself what you want. Do this step by step and your dream will come true faster because a big dream is made up of many small dreams.

You must never give up your dream. There will be difficulties on the road to your dreams. But the biggest difficulty ④comes from yourself. You need to decide what is the most important.

⑤Without dreams, you won't make up your mind to learn more skills and find new interests.

We Both Like Music

    My name is Frank White. I'm fourteen years old. I was born on May 13th, 1999. Mike is my good friend. His birthday is May 15th. He is only twelve years old now. Every year on May 14th, we have a birthday party together(一起) at our school. Many friends come to our party. We all have a good time at the party. We both like music. We often have a pop concert. I play the guitar. He plays the drums. Mike often sends me some CDs and I often send him tickets for concerts.

A. Hobbies: reading, listening to music and watching birds
    Purpose: asking for spare copies of textbooks, teaching materials or journals

B. Hobbies: reading, singing and traveling
    Purpose: learning about ideas of teaching professionals in the world

C. Hobbies! Role-playing, listening to music and collecting nice things
    Purpose: communicating with new friends among English teachers from the UK and USA

D. Hobbies: reading, and exchanging fancy gifts and ideas about local customs and conventions
    Purpose: exchanging ideas on teaching methods

E.  Hobbies: listening to western pop music, exchanging gifts and collecting things
    Purpose: making friends with both teachers and the students of English around the world

F. Hobbies: swimming, cycling and raising cats and dogs
   Purpose: finding pen friends all over the world and communicating in English

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    I am a secondary school teacher of English. I would like to have pen friends all over the world for my students. They are aged 15~19 and good at swimming, cycling and rising cats and dogs. If students in your country are interested in communicating with Turkish students in English, please tell them to write to my address. so that I can send their letters to my students who are willing to have friends and are in need of practice.

    Ms. Imbat

    81030, Istanbul Turkey

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    I am interested in talking with other TEFL teachers and researchers about professional development. I would like to share ideas with those teachers from English-speaking countries throughout the world. My hobbies are reading, listening to music and watching birds. Since I live in a rather isolated area, I would appreciate any spare copies if text books, teaching materials or journals that other teachers would be able to send me. .

    Ms. Juliana Sirait

    21214, Kisaran Indonesia

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    I am a 33-year-old secondary school teacher of English in Hungary. I would like to make new friends among English teachers mainly from English, the USA, Switzerland, and Scandinavia. I am interested in role-playing and team work. I would also like to communicate with teachers all over the world with the same hobbies as mine: collecting nice things, listening to music, reading and traveling.

    Mariann Nyari

    6724, Szeged, Tavaszl／B Hungary 21214, Kisaran Indonesia

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#}Dear Editor,

     I am a 23-year-old Peace Corps Volunteer teaching secondary English in Equatorial Guinea. This is my first experience teaching formally, so I would like to know some of the ideas of all you professionals Out there in the world. Letters do not have to be all business. When the school day ends. I would enjoy hearing from you. I enjoy reading, singing, traveling and so on.

    Kury W. Cobham

    Ap Box 456 Equatorial Guinea

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#}Dear Editor,

    I'm a 30-year-old teacher of English at a middle school. I'd be happy to make friends with both teachers and students of English around the world. I also wish to find pen friends for my students between 13 and 20 years old. My interests are letter writing, listening to western pop music, exchanging gifts, and collecting stamps, maps, picture postcards and coins.

    Mrs. Thevachandra

    47／1, Kalm Unai Sri Lanka

    NAO is a 58cm-tall robot. He is small, cute and round. You can't help but love him! NAO is created to be a friendly partner around the house. He moves, recognizes(识别) you, bears you and even talk to you.

    Since his birth in 2006, he has been better and better at pleasing, understanding and loving you.

    Maybe one day he will become your friend. His cute look and wonderful communication skills make him really lovely and popular.

    He can be a good helper. Ask him to do something and he does. For example, ask NAO to wake you up in the morning, to watch your home during the day or to teach you new things whenever you want. You no longer need a keyboard, a computer or a mouse to communicate with technology. All you have to do is to talk to him.

    He can be a sweet family member. He can learn to read your moods, so that he always knows the right thing to say. He can recognize your family members and call them by their first names. You can teach him how to choose the music, food and film you like best.

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    I love to write! Even since I was a little girl, I wrote stories on my notebooks and on little scrips of paper. I told stories to my friends. As a grown-up, I have written over 100 books! That's a lot! As a teacher, it's my goal to encourage all of my students to love to write.

    Writing is easy if you're careful enough, I told them. Everyone I meet is a possible character.

    Everything I see or I do is a possible scene in a book. Start looking around you. You'll be amazed at what you discover.

    Anyone can be a writer. You just put your pencil on your paper and write what you like to read, step by step.

    Create great characters. If you know your characters well, they'll write the story for you.

    Interest the reader right at the beginning. You can start your stories with dialogue or action. If you can make the reader ask questions, then he has to keep reading to find out the answers.

    Following the steps. The steps for every story is almost the same: Introduce the characters and the conflict(冲突); things get worse; all seem lost; the hero saves the day!

    Balance is the key. Remember, when writing, it never hurts to add a little humor.

    James Watt was an English boy. He liked asking questions and was always thinking hard.

    One day he was sitting in the kitchen with his grandmother. There he saw a kettle (壶) on the fire. Some steam began to come out of the kettle. The lid (盖子) was shaking. "Grandma, what's in the kettle?" he asked. "Water, my child… nothing, but water." "But I know there is something else. It pushes the lid up. How did the steam get under the lid?" "It comes from the hot water."

    The boy said to himself, "The steam must be very strong. It can push things. If there is more water, the steam will be much stronger."

    Many years later James Watt tried to make steam work for people. He gave the world the first engine.