【推荐1】I’m Paul. I’m eleven. I have three good friends. They are Jim, Frank and Mary. We like sports very much. My favorite sport is basketball. I have four basketballs. I think playing basketball is interesting, but Jim and Frank think it’s boring to play basketball. Their favorite sport is soccer. They play soccer every afternoon at school. They have five soccer balls. Mary is a nice girl, her favorite sport is volleyball. She plays it very well. It’s relaxing for her to play volleyball. But she has only one volleyball. Sports are good for us.

【推荐3】Hello!     1     My Chinese name is Meimei. I am 14 years old.     2     I come from Canada.     3     I have long hair, big eyes and a small mouth.     4     I am in Class Seven, Grade Nine. My favorite actor is Mary Smith.     5     My QQ number is 758778166. If(如果) you want (想要) to be my friend, please let me know.

【推荐1】Jack and Bill are brothers. They’re eleven. They like to watch TV. Jack likes watching A Bite of China (《舌尖上的中国》). He likes Chinese food. Bill likes watching sports on TV. He thinks they’re very interesting.

One evening, after having dinner with their parents, Bill watches a soccer game on TV. But Jack wants to watch A Bite of China.

“Hi, Bill. I think sports are boring. How about watching A Bite of China?” Jack asks.

“Why? The soccer game is really cool. I want to watch it now,” Bill says.

Jack isn’t happy, so he asks his mom for help.

“My dear, Jack! Why not watch it on the computer?” Mom says.

So Jack and Bill watch their favorite programs at the same time. They have a happy evening.

【推荐2】Zhang Qiang is a Chinese boy. He’s fourteen years old. He can’t stand soap operas because he thinks they are boring. He loves sitcoms. He thinks they are interesting. They make him happy. He often reads Sitcom World on weekends. He doesn’t mind talk shows.

【推荐1】My name is Kevin. I am an earthworm (蚯蚓). Welcome to my home. It’s under the grass. Look at my house. There are three rooms. The first room is my parents’. The next room is for my brother Alan and me. The last one is my grandpa’s. Look at my parents’ room. There are some books in the bookcase. They like reading. Their room is tidy, but our room is not. This is our room. A computer is on the desk. Both of us (我们俩) like playing computer games. Our things are here and there. My brother’s cap is under the chair. My watch is under the bed. Alan’s ID card is in the bookcase. His brown schoolbag is under the bed. His jacket is on the bed. Next to the bed is a yellow sofa. My white model plane is on the sofa. That dictionary in the bookcase is mine. Oh, where is Alan? He is in the library now. In my grandpa’s room, there are many newspapers. He likes reading them to know about some world news (世界新闻). We also like newspapers because they are delicious (美味的).

David is in his school curling（冰壶运动）team in Scotland. He also plays for two other clubs. Let’s listen to his story and learn more about curling.

“I first started playing curling four years ago when I was 10 years old. My father, my brother and sister all curl and I would go and watch them play. I enjoy curling because I like the feeling of playing on real ice. I also like it because it is mentally challenging. In the play, you have to think about how to achieve your goal and how to beat the other team.”

“Sweeping（清扫冰道）is probably the most difficult part of the game. It is very important because this decides the speed of the stone and keeps it straight.”

“Games can go on for three or four hours and I play three times a week. Some of my friends thought it was funny when I started curling. Then they tried it and now they play it, too.”

“Curling has been a Winter Olympic game since 1998. I would like to play at the Winter Olympics in the future. I would surely recommend（推荐）curling to everyone, because it’s different from other sports.”