Hello, my name is Jill. This is my neighborhood. It is very beautiful. My house is next to a new building （楼房） on Green Street. My best friend Betty lives in that building. There is a clean and big park across from the building. I often play football there.

There is a music school in my neighborhood. I walk there to learn the piano every Saturday afternoon. It is across from a bank. Where is the supermarket? It is between the park and the music school. Betty’s mother is a sales clerk（售货员） there. There is a new library next to the music school. And the library is across from an old post office. My mother works at the post office.

Thanks for your letter. (1) I’m glad to hear you can come on Sunday. When you drive over to my house, it’s easy to find the station. It’s a little difficult after that, so here are some instructions(说明): Drive past the station. Don’t turn left into Garden Road. Just go along New Street. There’s a football ground on your left. Go straight ahead, pass the bank, and turn left into Green Road. Turn left again into High Street, River Street is the first on the right. (2) 我的房子在学校对面。

See you on Sunday!

Ann

My name is Kate. Here is a map of my neighborhood. The bank is next to my house. My school is next to the bank. There are a lot of teachers in the school and they are friendly to me. If I want to read books, I can go to the library. It’s on Green Street. Where is the hospital? Can you find it? It’s on Main Street. When I am ill, the doctors can help me. There is also a big supermarket in my neighborhood, just behind my house. I can buy a lot of things here. But the post office is far from my house. If I want to post a letter, I have to go along Bridge Street and turn left at the second crossing .Then I walk about 300 meters and the post office is on the left.

I have three good friends. Let me tell you how they get to school.

Jane always rides her bike to school. It’s about three kilometers from her home to school and it takes her about fifteen minutes. She says it’s good for her health.

Mary lives near the school. She usually walks to school. It’s about 10 minutes’ walk. Mary says she likes taking walks after meals.

Edward usually gets to school by bus. He likes talking with his friends on the bus. It’s about 20 minutes’ ride to school by bus.

I live in a small town near Xing’an, Guilin. You can’t see it on the map of China, because it is too small. There are not many tall buildings in our town. The best building is our school building. There are 400 students and 25 teachers in our school. We study Chinese, English, math and other subjects at school. In front of the school there is a playground（操场）. I often play basketball with my classmates there. There is a little garden behind our school. And we can enjoy beautiful flowers in it. Next to the garden, there is an orange orchard（果园）. We can eat oranges there. It’s a great place to have fun. There is a river near our school. I usually go swimming with my friends in it.

【推荐3】Today I had great fun. I went to Mike’s home on foot in the morning. I studied English with him all morning. We read funny tongue twisters(绕口令）together. In the afternoon, we went to the park by bike. It was a windy day, so we flew kites. But my kite flew into the lake. A dog saw the kite. It jumped into the lake and swam to it. Five minutes later, it gave the kite to me. I was very grateful(感激的）to it.