My grandma is a great woman named Mary. She was born in 1919 and died in 2009. _________ she didn’t live to be 100 years old, she had a good, long life. She worked as a _________ for 70 years. She taught in Africa for many years. Then she _________ Africa and moved to Malaysia. At that time, people didn’t travel by plane, so she travelled by _________. It _________ her three months to go by sea from England to Malaysia in those days. In 1947, she travelled by plane for the first time. This new transportation made travelling from England to Malaysia much _________ than before. She didn’t stop _________ until she was seventy-five years old.

Mary really loved teaching and she was also good at _________ stories. I always heard her talk about her stories. They were very _________, and I would like to listen to her when I was free. She could remember everything though she was old, I think it was because she __________ stopped working and thinking. My grandmother was really a great woman.

In England, people often talk about the weather because they can have four seasons in one day. In the morning the weather is warm just like in spring. An hour later black clouds come and then it rains hard. The weather gets a little cold. In the afternoon the sun may begin to shine. It may be just like a day in summer.

You can also have summer in winter, or have winter in summer. So in winter you can sometimes swim, and in summer you can sometimes wear warm clothes. When you go to England, you will see that many English people usually take an umbrella or a raincoat with them on a sunny morning. But you’d better not laugh at them. If you don’t take an umbrella or a raincoat in the morning, maybe later you will have to walk in the rain. People often say that in England you can have four seasons in one day. Sometimes you may feel you have the same season all year round.

Lao She wrote Teahouse in 1957. The play shows audience the life in China between 1898 and 1945. It takes place in a teahouse in old Beijing and it tells us the story of Wang Lifa and his customers.

The story starts in 1898 during the Qing Dynasty (朝代) . It continues in 1916, and finally, it brings the audience to the end of the Anti - Japanese War (抗日战争) in 1945. After the war, Wang loses the teahouse and dies.

Lao She was born in Bejing in 1899. His parents sent him to the Teacher’s School in Beijing and he learned to teach. From 1924 to 1929 he taught Chinese to the English in London. He wrote many plays, novels and short stories. He was named a “ People’s Artist” and a “ Great Master of Language” . He was one of the greatest Chinese writers of the 20th century.

In Lao She’s Teahouse today, waiters bring tea to the customers and sell them delicious Chinese food. If you like Beijing Opera, folk music, acrobatics (杂技) or magic shows, you can enjoy them in the teahouse. Lao She’s Teahouse gives a wonderful welcome to everyone from China and from all over the world.

I’d like to share my suggestions about studying with you. “Studying” is not the same thing as “doing homework”! Studying may include doing homework, but it also includes a lot more, as you will see. So if you say that you have no homework, and therefore you can’t or you don’t have to study, you’re mistaken!

I am going to give you some suggestions on how to study efficiently _______ worked for me when I was in the high school and college.

Not only that, but they also worked equally well for me in literature and math.

Although everyone’s learning style may be different, and some of my suggestions may not work for you, I still ask you to try them. A lot of successful students have used them.

Please send me suggestions about studying that work for you. I will try to include them into the further version of this guide.

Here are some of my suggestions:

A. Manage your time.

B. Take notes in class and rewrite them at home.

C. Study hard and study in a quiet place.

D. Read texts actively and slowly. Do it before and after class.

E. Finish your homework by yourself.

F. Do not only study for exams.

Yours,

Emma