Eleven young people from different countries sit around a meeting table, and have a discussion about the hottest topics at the moment. More amazingly, they do that all in Chinese. Isn’t that exciting? If you feel the same, you had better watch Hubei Satellite TV’s show Informal Talks.

First aired in April, 2015, the show is already in its seventh season. As one of the most popular TV programmes, it has scored at least 8 out of 10 for each season on the Internet. Its producer（制片人）Yu Qing says when choosing the topics, they would first think about what interests the young people most.

Da Zuo, one host of the show, says he looks through comments（评论）on the Internet to know people’s opinions on the show. To better take part in the talks, he has also read a lot of books about the histories of different European cultures or such classics as A Brief History Time by Stephen Hawking.

Brian Gonzalez, better known as Gong Biyang in China, has been a guest of the show for the past eight years. To him, the beauty of the show is that everyone shares true stories that happened in their own lives.

The show is so interesting that it has attracted a large number of online viewers（观众）. They will also take part in the discussion by sending danmu or short live comments when watching the show on Bilibili. Liu Bin, a computer programmer and a big fan of the show says, “It satisfies my curiosity（好奇）about different places in the world.” “I used to read lots of books to learn about the culture and history of other countries, but now I find a more lively way to learn about them—watching the show.”

6 . In a further survey on the Internet, “China’s Better Life Survey” found that the top three forms of mobile entertainment（娱乐）are watching short videos, playing games and watching TV dramas. Short videos have undoubtedly become the first way for people to “kill time”, and the proportion（比例）of women brushing short videos is higher than that of men.

The survey also found that more than thirty percent of people love online shopping in their spare time (31.47%). Those who like online shopping most are young people born after 1995, and people over 60 years old don’t seem to be weak, being second.

Looking at the choice of different types of cities, first-tier cities like to shop on mobile apps, while second-tier and third-tier cities have a higher proportion of live commerce and social e-commerce than first-tier cities.

8 . This week, in Los Angeles, the MasterChef Junior (少年大厨) contestants (选手) showed what was supposed to be the world’s largest cake. Instead, they made the smallest cake in the world.

What happened to the great cake? They wanted to make a 3, 000-pound cake baked for 35 hours in a 6-foot-wide by 8-foot-deep pan. Sadly, the pan broke up. The chefs quickly came up with the idea to make the world’s smallest cake. But Guinness World Records (吉尼斯世界纪录) will only judge the largest food but not the smallest.

The event was held to improve the new show MasterChef Junior. They hold the competition to open the door for kids interested in cooking. Here’s how it works. Twenty-four chefs, ages 8 to 13, are selected and put through some cooking tests. Contestants are eliminated (淘汰) two at a time until one is finally named MasterChef Junior.

As the kids complete the challenges, some judges (裁判) taught or helped them. They are Gordon Ramsey, Joe Bastianich, and Graham Elliot.

The young cooks didn’t fear the adult judges. “Gordon, Joe and Graham were all really helpful and really knew about what we were doing,” said Tommy from California. He is a 12-year-old contestant on the show.

The exciting chefs agreed that competing on the show taught them useful lessons. They would remember it forever.

10 . Last month, I asked some of my classmates a few questions. They are about watching TV shows. I found that my classmates have different special favourites about TV shows. The answers to these questions were interesting.     1    

Kate likes cartoons. Snow White is her favourite one. She thinks it’s interesting. Tony likes cartoons, too. But he likes Mickey Mouse best.     2     Dally isn’t the same as them. She likes action movies very much, and she watches them once a week. But she doesn’t like soap operas at all.     3     Lisa likes soap operas. She hopes to be an actress one day. Mike likes news a lot. He watches it every day.     4     But Mike can’t stand scary movies. He thinks they are boring. Sally enjoys sitcoms. She can learn some new excellent jokes from sitcoms. But she thinks game shows are more educational than sitcoms,     5