【推荐2】Mr Smith is from London. Now he lives in China. He is tall. He was born (出生)in 1970. He teaches English in our school. He works very hard. His students like him very much. He can speak a little Chinese. The students teach him Chinese on Sundays. He also likes playing football. He often plays football with his students. He doesn’t like watching TV.

Mr Smith has a son named Jack. He is a student. He goes to school at eight in the morning and gets home at four in the afternoon. He does his homework in the evening.

【推荐3】Pauline Jones, 18, lives in Cardiff, Wales. Next year she is going to university to study Chinese, but now she’s living in Belize, a country in North America. Pauline says, “I’m working with other people here to save the coral reefs (珊瑚礁) in the sea near Belize. The reefs here are beautiful, but if the sea water is very polluted, the coral will die. I’m helping to do research on the coral and the fish that live around the reefs. All over the world, coral reefs are dying. We need to do something about the problem before it’s too late.”

I’m staying with a family here and I help do some housework. I don’t get any money, but that’s OK. I love my work here, and I’m learning a lot about the people of Belize and myself. After I finish my work, I want to stay here for anther three months. I want to travel around Belize and Central America.

【推荐1】Hi! Nice to meet you. We are the mascots (吉祥物) of the 19th Asian Games. And Hangzhou is the third Chinese city to host (举办) the Asian Games after Beijing and Guangzhou in 1990 and 2010.

	Look at me. I am Chenchen. I’m blue. My name comes from Gongchen Bridge. My color stands for (代表) science and technology.
	I am Congcong. My name comes from jade cong. My yellow color is also the color of the earth and harvests.
	My name is Lianlian. I am green. My name comes from the lotus leaf. I stand for the West Lake.

【推荐2】Albert Einstein and Wolfgang Mozart are possibly the two most famous examples of people who are geniuses (天才). But unlike Mozart, Einstein wasn’t as talented as a kid. Born in Germany in 1879, he was slow to learn to speak, and he was a normal student at school. He was interested in math and science, but he liked to study at home better. Later, he studied to be a teacher, but he didn’t find a job in a school and for some years he was an office worker. A lot of Einstein’s most famous ideas were the result of study in his free time, when he also played the violin to relax.

From 1908, he was a university teacher for many years, first in Europe and then in the US. He was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. He was famous for his theory of relativity (相对论), but only several scientists could understand it. His biggest dream was to find one explanation for the basic (基础的) ideas in physics, but he died before this was possible.

As a famous scientist, Einstein got letters from people around the world. Some of the letters were from children and he always answered them. One letter was from a girl with math problems at school. “Do not worry about your difficulties in math” was his answer. “I can tell you that mine are still greater.”

Einstein died in a hospital in 1955. He was named “Person of the Century” in 1999 by Time Magazine.

【推荐3】What do you do if you want to give gifts to people and you don’t have much money? Here are some do-it-yourself gift ideas to try.

To your parents

You can clean your house, sing a song, write a letter to your mom and dad. You can also draw a picture for them if you like that better. These are the best gifts for them.

To your teacher

You can make a nice card with the words of thanks on it. You can write down the favorite thing you learned in the teacher’s class. These will make your teacher feel happy.

To your friend

When your friend has his birthday, you can make a birthday card for him by hand or sing the song Happy Birthday to him. It’s a small thing, but it means a lot to him.

【推荐1】Chopin was born in March, 1810 near Warsaw in Poland. He was one of the greatest musicians in the world. In 1831, he was not famous though he could play the piano very well. One day, he went to Paris to visit the most famous Hungarian pianist Liszt. Liszt liked him very much.

One night, at a concert (音乐会), Liszt went to the piano and all the people shouted. As all the lights in the hall went off, a wonderful piano concert started. The music was so good that all the listeners almost forgot everything except the music. The audience (观众) thought that Liszt reached a new level in playing the piano.

Suddenly, all the lights were turned on when the music came to an end. And there stood a young man near the piano instead of the famous pianist Liszt. Liszt planned this. As the lights went off, Liszt left his chair and let Chopin take his place and play the piano. So, with the help of Liszt, Chopin soon became famous.

【推荐2】School Programs

Today I was at the shopping center and I spent a lot of time reading the Father's Day cards. But as I chose and read, and chose and read again, it seemed that not a single card said what I really wanted to say. So I decided to write a letter to you.     

You'll soon be 84 years old, Dad. You and I will have had 56 Father's Days together. I didn't think that you were too old. But the sad thing happened last week.I watched as you turned at the corner in your car. I didn't realize at once that it was you because the man who was driving looked so elderly.     

Fifty years ago this spring, we planted carrots together in a garden in Charles City, Iowa. This week, we'll plant carrots together again, perhaps for the last time but I hope not. I don't understand why planting carrots with you is so important to me. Well, I don't quite know how to tell you this, Dad …I don't like carrots...but I like planting them with you.

I guess what I'm trying to say, Dad, is what every son and daughter wants to say to their Dad today. Praising a father on Father's Day is about more than a Dad who brings home money or shares a dinner. It's more about a Dad deeply loving children who knows everything and won't listen to anyone. It's about sharing. It's about loving someone more than words can say, and I wish that it would never end.     

Love,

Jenny