Hi. My name is Betty. I'm from Canada. I'm a student. I'm in Class Two, Grade Five. There are four people in my family. They are my father, my mother, my brother and me. My father is an English teacher. He works at a school. My mother is a doctor. She works in a hospital. My brother is a student, too. He is in Class Two, Grade Three. I love my family.

    My name is Ann. I'm an American girl. I'm a student in Class Three, Grade Five.

    Helen and I are on duty today. We go to the classroom and open the windows at seven in the morning. We clean the classroom at seven fifteen. The class begins at eight. After school, we play games on the play-ground. I go home at five.

    In the evening, my father, my mother and I watch TV at eight. I go to bed at nine ten.

    The following three students are writing letters to the school office.

    Our lunchtime is short. Many of us have some schoolwork to do after lunch. But if we don't get a good rest, we can't have enough(足够的) energy for the afternoon. So we want to have more time to take a nap after lunch.

Wang Yang (boy, 13)

    Food in our dining hall is not nice at all. There is always pork, tofu and potatoes. The soup is never hot. I like pork, tofu and potatoes. But why do we have them every day? And why can't we have hot soup?

Wu Xiaofang (girl, 13)

    All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy! We want more time for sports, but there are only thirty minutes for us to do sports every day. I think school should finish before 4 pm every day and then we can go to the playground to do sports.

Dai Huimin (boy, 14)

    I'm Mr Webb. I' m a teacher in Guangming School. The school is very different now.

    Ten years ago, the school was small with a few students. There were about 10 classrooms in the school. There was no playground. Students had no places to play. They had to play on farms. We had no library. There was only a reading corner in every classroom.

    But now, the school is very big. We have a big garden now. In the garden there are many big tall trees and flowers. It's very comfortable to sit under the trees. The new playground is big and beautiful. The classrooms are very big and bright. There are fifty classrooms in the school. There is a big library. The library has many books.

    On a sunny spring day, Dad, Mom, Jack and Emily are in the car. They are going to have a picnic. They stop by the lake.

    Look! The children put on their hats and play ball. But the wind blows Emily's hat away. Dad is fishing. He wants to catch a big fish in the lake. But he catches Emily's hat. He gives the hat to Emily.

Then they are all hungry.

    Mom takes the picnic basket from the car and the other three help put the food on the picnic blanket. They have cheeseburgers, apples and orange juice. What a nice day!