【推荐1】Hi, my name is David. I’m a boy. I like green     1    . I am in Class Four. In my class, there are nine boys and eight girls. Li Ning and Wang Fang are my classmates.     2    . My English teacher is Mrs. Gao. She is very nice.     3    

This is my desk. It is in the middle of my classroom. You can see two pens, three pencils, an English book, a key and a pencil box on it.     4     I have a dictionary. It is in my schoolbag. But I can’t find my schoolbag. It is green.     5    . My phone number is 2621-0292. Thanks!

My name is Alan. I’m an American boy. I’m a student in Guangming Middle School. I’m in Class 4, Grade 9.

Xiao Ming is my friend in Guangming Middle School, too. He is also in class 4. He is 15. Here is a picture of his family! Let’s look at it. His father is a policeman. His mother is a Chinese teacher. Xiao Ming loves his parents very much. He has two sisters. They are twins (双胞胎). Their names are Ling Ling and Li Li. The twins are in Guangming Middle School, too. They are in Class 7. They have a cat. Its name is Coco. Look! It’s on the box.

We are good friends.

【推荐3】My full name is Gina Smith. Smith is my family name. People call me Gina. I’m an English girl. I’m ten. I am in Hongxing School. Zhang Jing is my friend. She is ten, too. She is from China. Miss Wang is my English teacher and Mrs Li is my Chinese teacher.

Do you like chicken soup? Do you know how to make delicious chicken soup? Let me tell you!

Chicken soup is a kind of traditional Chinese food. It is very delicious and it’s good for our health. And I think it’s easy to cook it. If you follow my steps, you can enjoy the delicious chicken soup. First, you need a saucepan (炖锅). Clean the saucepan and put eight bowls of water into the saucepan. Heat it as you do other things for cooking. You will need some chicken, carrots, salt and pepper. Cut up the chicken and carrots. When the water boils, put the chicken into the saucepan. Wait for 20 minutes and add the carrots. Simmer for one hour, and then add salt and pepper. Finally, pour out chicken soup into bowls. Don’t eat at once. Because it’s too hot! You can enjoy it five minutes later.

【推荐3】Jane’s Restaurant

【推荐1】There are all kinds of food. Some are good for health. Some are unhealthy, like hamburgers and ice-cream. The passage talks about some food that can help us keep healthy.

Oranges and orange juice. They give us enough vitamin(维生素) C. Starting a day with a small glass of orange juice in the morning is good for our health.

Green vegetables. They help us stay away from cancer(癌症). They also give us different vitamins.

Yogurt. It is made from milk. It is good for us and can make our body strong. So next time you want to drink a cup of coffee, get yourself a cup of yogurt.

Green tea. It helps us to be thin. We should try to drink more. However, try not to drink it before you go to bed.

It’s not hard to put these kinds of food into our daily diet(日常饮食). Of course, we can have them together with other kinds of food. That will make meals healthy and delicious.

【推荐2】My name is Julie. I'm a junior high school student. I have a friend. His name is Richard. For breakfast he has bread, two eggs and some milk. He eats chicken, rice and fruit(水果) for lunch. For dinner he eats hamburgers, fish and vegetables. Hamburgers are his favorite food. He eats hamburgers every day. After dinner, Richard likes eating ice-cream. Richard is fat(胖的). His mother doesn't want him to be a fat boy. She doesn't think it's healthy to eat too many hamburgers or too much ice-cream after dinner.

Richard's mother is a teacher. She eats well and healthily(健康地). She eats bread and a banana for breakfast. For lunch she eats sandwiches(三明治) and some fruit. For dinner she eats vegetables, fish and an egg. Richard's mother doesn't eat sweet(甜的) foods. She thinks too many of them can make her fat. She does a lot of sports(运动) to keep(保持) healthy in the evening. She is very happy.

【推荐1】I’m David. Today is December 20th. It’s my sister Jane’s birthday.

In the morning, my parents take us to Lucky Clothes Store first. There my mother buys a red sweater for Jane and a blue jacket for me. Then we go to Green Bookstore. There I buy an art book for Jane. In another(另一个) store, my father buys a basketball for her. Jane likes playing basketball with my father after school.

In the afternoon, my parents have a birthday party for Jane at home. Jane’s friends, Nick and Anna, come to the party. Nick gives Jane a nice pencil box. Anna gives her a dictionary. Jane likes them very much. We play games and eat fruit at the party. We are very happy today.

【推荐3】Before arriving in China, I had read lots of books about China. Therefore, when I arrived, I was excited to live in the country that is rich in history and culture. It was so greatly different from the UK. The food, the customs, the big cities and everyday life–I couldn’t wait to explore (探索).

However, learning Chinese hadn’t even entered my mind, not because I was lazy, but because I had no confidence to learn such a difficult language. Besides this, once I moved to China and I lived in Shanghai. It is an International city, with many people speaking English as a second language. So I thought English would be sufficient.

But after a year in China. I found many expatriates (侨民) spoke Chinese. Perhaps it was achievable after all. I felt uncomfortable because so many Chinese people could speak English while I couldn’t even speak the most basic Chinese. To face the challenge, I decided to begin my language journey and my only regret is that I didn’t start earlier.

In the two years, I have made great progress since starting to learn. Now, I am able to talk in Chinese on many topics. Learning to speak Chinese isn’t as difficult as I once expected. When I speak to Chinese people in Chinese, they almost always understand me. The most challenging thing is listening since Chinese people talk at such a speed. I can’t always understand what has been said but my weekly online language exchanges help with this. Learning Chinese has   taken a lot of hard work. But there is still a long way to go before I reach my goal of fluency.

Learning Chinese not only helps me in daily life, but deepens my cultural understanding of such a great country. So, to all my non-Chinese friends, I would say, “Don’t be afraid, face the challenge and be confident.”